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Layla Jioussy

I am teaching myself piano, and I find it really a cool instrument. What’s cool about piano is that if I ever want to play one of the songs I like, all I have to do is learn it, practice and then I will be able to play a song that I like. Piano is a calming, fun thing to do when you’re bored or just need some relaxation. I wanted to share some of the things I can do on the piano in this blog, so make sure to check it out!

When I decided I wanted to play piano, I started out with just playing along (without sheet music) songs on YouTube, the type of songs where it shows you where to place your fingers and it also shows you the note letters of the notes you are playing, and that was kind-of like a basic start to help me understand more about just quickly learning songs on piano, and then I decided to watch an online course to help me more with technique, and music theory and all that stuff (the online course that I used was on skill share with Mark De Heide ( Link: Mark Piano De Heide – Skillshare, and you can also find him on his piano website, pgnpiano.com). On the online course I learned this song called Sea Mist. Sea Mist is a simple, easy to learn song that sounds really beautiful and calming, I recommend this song if you are a beginner and are looking for a song to start out with.

After I learned Sea Mist, I was like “how about I learn some actual songs.” By actual songs, I mean songs that are popular. Well, I tried to learn some songs, but those songs weren’t songs that sounded good on piano, they were more of other instrument songs like drums or guitar, and then I discovered the song One Call Away by Charlie Puth, it made my ears expand. The song sounded so beautiful! And by the way, it is a song that is played on the piano. So I was like, “I have to learn this song!” and then I searched up One Call Away sheet music and I just started reading the notes and learning the song.