u/calvinyl

Admittedly, I’m a bit of a new piano teacher, and I am not a master of the instrument. But I can count on one hand the amount of songs I’ve ever learned where I had to put more than one finger on the same note.

Every beginner piano book I’ve been asked to teach out of has numerous songs that teach kids to put both thumbs on middle C. I think that’s an odd choice when most songs will never ask them to do that, and in fact, I’d argue it’s usually bad technique, especially for simpler beginner songs like the ones in these books

Am I stupid? Is there an actual technical reason for this to be the case?

Not a serious rant, just something kind of funny.

I made my first ever album, and I wrote a ton of songs that are really special to me. Most of them are about my own self-discovery and my anxieties, and the recording process was pretty experimental (at least for me). I had a fun time making weird sounds with my guitar and a cheap microphone.

Then there’s one song on there that I actually kind of hated by the time I was done with it. I think my vocal performance is some of my worst work, I did a blatantly obvious pitch-correction job, i was too lazy to finish building the instrumental, and the lyrics are just kind of melodramatic. I think the mic even clips at one point. Anyway, I thought it was objectively bad.

But now everyone keeps telling me that was their favorite song. It has the most plays on streaming and everything, too.