- My First Piano Recital
After thoroughly enjoying piano lessons for a full academic year my sophomore year, I decided to continue taking lessons junior year. I was mostly playing exercises from Czerny: Selected Piano Studies Volume 1 and small pieces from John W. Schaum Piano Course, B: The Blue Book to get a grasp of all the basics: hand independence, dexterity, dynamics, etc. My instructor thought I was making really good progress, especially during the sping of sophomore year, and eventually taught me how to play full pieces. I was able to play them well enough to the point that he encouraged me to play two of them at a recital the music department hosts for students taking lessons for any musical instrument. The two you can hear in the video above are a classical piece called Gymnopédie No. 1 composed by Erik Satie and a video game piece composed by Hiroki Morishita.