I got some feedback from some of you that my first piano composition “Breathing Change” could sound a little slower so I thought I’d give it a go and re record it in a slower tempo. And I think it’s true it sounds great and relaxing when played slower. I also changed it into a different piano sound, which was originally used when composed. Although I do like both versions, as naturally I play it a little faster and it’s meant to flow. Let me know what you think!

Just wanted to share with you my review of this online piano course as I get asked a lot what is the best way to start learning to play piano. Check this out for yourself. This one, in my opinion, from the few leading learn piano online courses that I decided to buy and compare, this is the best one. I found it a lot more professionally done than others and is easy to follow and packed with seriously good content. Please bare with me as this is my first online presentation, and I tried to add some fun to it =]

I’ve been traditionally taught to play piano, and even though I had a very much into depth complex  solfeggio theory   I wasn’t encouraged to deviate from anything else other than what was on my music sheets. Needless to say I wasn’t encouraged to compose anything of my own or improvise. After getting bored with playing same stuff over and over again and neglecting my piano playing for the last few years I finally was able to break free from complete  inability to improvise, have fun with music and experiment.

Pianoforall helped me gain this kind of understanding of how music is made up so that I would make sense out of this “foreign language” that I used to speak for years without having a clue how it all works. Playing piano now and improvising is very exciting and I keep coming out with so many beautiful variations with every sitting that it’s hard to keep up to memorise them.

Enjoy and follow your dreams

Alina K

Only few weeks ago I learnt about Ludovico Einaudi, an Italian composer and pianist, as someone who is a great musician himself has compared my own piano music to his and yes I was surprised to hear it. It was my kind of thing! In particular I was fascinated and totally loved his “Nuvole Bianche”, which translates “White Clouds”. Einaudi music has been described as “minimalist, classical, ambient, contemporary and deeply touching, the welcome sound of stillness in a hectic world.”

When I heard the original “Nuvole Bianche” I just wanted to play it!:) I started learning it few days ago and quickly shot this video below. I just so wanted to share this beautiful piece with you. I found it was actually not a hard piece to learn to play. As long as you don’t over think and concentrate on small pieces but see it as a whole and control your mind by thinking it’s actually easy, trust your fingers. if you think it’s hard, then it’s hard. i think it’s easy, then easy it is…

You can check out the original here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkzyyv0DuA&feature=BFa&list=FLCmiNUC6d-na3p02Bn5uOJg&lf=mh_lolz

Enjoy,

Alina K

I’m excited to post my very first piano composition. I’ve never composed before in my life and always played music by other composers. This is something I tried and something came out, pretty emotional. “Breathing Change” is inspired by changes in my life, trying to pursue my passion and letting go of things that I found myself stuck into. This is about trusting life and letting go.