About

Who are you?

My name is Aneesh and I live in Bangalore, India.

What is The Simple Piano?

The Simple Piano is meant to be a weekly journal on my piano learning progress. Currently, I am planning to maintain this blog strictly on an experimental basis. It has been a long time wish to learn playing piano. But, as a person who does not generally stick with a program for long, I thought a blog with a weekly post will help me to stick with the plan of learning to play this instrument.

What is key focus?

The key focus is to play the songs I love to play on piano, such that they sound good. Over a period of time, I would like to achieve:

1. Play melody with right hand & chords with left hand using fake books/lead sheets.
2. Make the above step more sophisticated using different right and left hand techniques and patterns.
3. Learn different genres of Piano playing like Jazz, Blues, Stride, Ragtime etc.
4. Eventually to learn to play by ear.

Do you own a piano?

No, I don't. As of now, I owns a 66 keys Yamaha keyboard but am sure one day I will own a digital piano.

Do you have a teacher?

No, I don't. I tried that approach for some time, but it did not work for me. Having regular tuition with teacher was both expensive and also was taking a lot of commute time. Also, I did not become a big fan of the method.

So, what is your learning resources?

Books primarily. I also look for online resources and YouTube video tutorials occassionally.

What is this blog not about?

This blog is definitely not about classical pieces and symphonies.