Liebesträume No. 3 "Love Dream"「愛の夢」

Liebesträume No. 3 played by Kate Ishida (19 y/o)

Hi friends! I just finished my first year of college and I must say, schooling during the pandemic ain't it. This is the first classical piano video I posted since changing piano teachers. I've had my old teacher for years and she was like family, so adjusting to my new teacher's different teaching methods was difficult. I kind of had to go back to basics and I spent months trying to change the way I've always played. I doubted myself every time I touched the piano because I thought I was doing something wrong and it was very frustrating. But at the end of my first year with my new teacher, I looked back at some of my old piano videos from a year ago (the college supps/audition ones)--the ones that I thought were pretty good--and found so many flaws that I never even realized WERE flaws. I feel like a newborn fawn learning to walk for the first time. I'm still VERY terrified every time I play the piano because I am not sure if I am doing things correctly. Before, I would just play the notes on the sheet music and disregard efficiency and all the minute details. Piano playing seemed...easy. But now I realize what an incredibly difficult instrument the piano is. Yeah, maybe it's true that you don't have to worry about intonation unlike the violin, but there is more to piano playing than just that. I feel like the difference between "right" and "wrong" is very subtle in piano playing, which makes it feel easy at first (which is why it's an ideal instrument for kids to start on since they won't get frustrated by intonation problems on the violin or squeaking on the clarinet for example), but as you play for a longer time, you realize that there are a million things to be thinking of. How fast the hammer hits the string, how long the hammer should stay there, how to use the pedal without sounding muddy, moving from one hand position to another efficiently...idk there is just so much to think about that I only recently learned to think about. Honestly, everything is still such a mystery and I don't know what I'm doing, but I look forward to exploring more and improve my playing!