Clef Notes - A Piano Blog

" Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. "  – Malcolm Gladwell At the beginning of 2023, I was seriously contemplating ditching my piano. I hadn't really touched it since 2017. I had a compressed ulnar nerve in 2022 which wreaked all kinds of havoc in the pinky and ring finger of my right hand and I was not sure I would ever completely recover all my feeling in those fingers. (I have -- mostly -- I'm currently at 90%.) Neglected piano sheet music was housed beneath my bookshelf in a cabinet, an uncomfortable reminder of the many stops and starts I'd had over the years with piano. I had always liked the piano, even as a little girl. An aunt, I recall, had an upright piano in her living room. I remember sitting down at the piano bench with legs that didn't yet reach the floor and working out the melody to "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." In high school, a friend of mine had been taking piano lessons ...