Issue #12: How I failed to learn piano. Twice.
Should you even bother taking up a musical instrument as an adult?
‘A little-bit-of-pressure on the first note. A smooooooth passage of music! Coming into a soft note.’
It’s the sole piece of wisdom that sticks in my brain from my childhood piano lessons: Mrs O’ Grady’s killer line on how to play a musical phrase. I do have a Classical Piano grade 2 (grade 3?) certificate knocking about somewhere, but honestly that acc…
