# Any piano players out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Unrelated Discussion\ **Created:** [January 28, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088 "2025-01-28T04:10:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/1 "2025-01-28T04:10:59Z")
Are there any piano players on this forum? If so what’s your level/what are you working on right now? How long have you been playing? ---
**Author:** ![Sven](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sven/32/604919_2.png) [@Sven](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sven)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/2 "2025-01-28T05:06:58Z")
Does a Kalimba count? As a “Thumb-piano”? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/3 "2025-01-28T14:34:31Z")
I would say no but that is very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/4 "2025-01-28T16:24:51Z")
![IMG_0615](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/e/5/2e55a660421d9e23a0d677146833a1bf780d2be7.jpeg) ![IMG_3836](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/d/0/6/d06da0fea83018616b809c63c988f4cc46b6f576.jpeg) ![IMG_4030](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/e/b/2eb74a16d80c8ee2c542d9dfa9c88004fd3295de.jpeg) I’m into synths, only have second hand Teenage Engineering stuff as it’s what got me into them, and I like their quirkiness. I don’t know any songs, and mostly just make beats and soundscape stuff ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/5 "2025-01-28T17:40:11Z")
Cool! ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/6 "2025-01-28T18:08:51Z")
i dont personally but I’d be interested to hear what you’re working on ---
**Author:** ![yoyodoc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyodoc/32/48820_2.png) [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/7 "2025-01-28T18:46:47Z")
Hats off to all Musicians. I can’t even play the Radio. When I was a kid, we used to eat entire cans of beans and then sit around and belt out tunes that no one ever heard before I didn’t realize until I saw the movie, blazing saddles, that my failure to follow through on honing my musical skills, probably was responsible for keeping me from becoming a star. ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/8 "2025-01-28T19:14:02Z")
![IMG_3594](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/d/4/5d4f9036869e736ad8e9e19d6d536e57be6fb14d.jpeg) My main instrument is the drums, this is where my band practices ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/9 "2025-01-28T19:31:35Z")
Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/10 "2025-01-28T19:37:21Z")
Working on a Chopin piece right now. This one: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/d/6/cd6220b50b3cebcbcdebf11ffc8cc1a14c516367.jpeg "Chopin - Nocturne Op.9 No.1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bvg232HOn8) ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/11 "2025-01-28T21:11:52Z")
Beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/12 "2025-01-28T21:58:34Z")
I play piano but really just enough to use it to work out harmonies. I took lessons as a kid and it was important as a composition major in college. I always tell anyone that if you can play piano it helps you to understand music in a linear and visual way which informs any other instrument. Anyway I’ve had a couple keyboards but now just play our old Wurlitzer upright. ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/13 "2025-01-28T22:16:34Z")
i love nocturnes ---
**Author:** ![Sgt1yoyo1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sgt1yoyo1/32/242554_2.png) [@Sgt1yoyo1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sgt1yoyo1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/14 "2025-01-29T01:12:42Z")
I play piano and have for most of my life but I never really got super proficient at it. I’ve mainly been playing children’s songs for primary at my church and I’ll occasionally play some simpler classical stuff that I can get into the feels with. I really ought to play more often ---
**Author:** ![JSERR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jserr/32/186876_2.png) [@JSERR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JSERR)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/15 "2025-01-29T02:07:40Z")
Barely a player here. Been noodling about for 10 years or so. Never found time to learn proper technique or how to read music. But I do like messing around a bit, find something nice, translate it and work on it in an app I enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![AngryGumball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/angrygumball/32/683872_2.png) [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/16 "2025-01-29T05:39:13Z")
My keyboard skills are lacking but I also do not have a “proper” piano/keyboard (61+ keys). I tend to fool around more with midi and synths - got an Arturia Mini Freak and bought a cheap Korg MicroKey 49. Otherwise, my “piano” that I play has 4 or 6 strings and instead of hammers, it’s fingers plucking them…aka, guitar, ukulele, banjolele 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joe77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/joe77/32/232665_2.png) [@Joe77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Joe77)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/17 "2025-01-29T15:38:29Z")
I grew up playing piano but it is not my principal instrument. @edhaponik nailed it, > [@edhaponik](#): > > if you can play piano it helps you to understand music in a linear and visual way which informs any other instrument. Honestly, I can’t imagine learning music theory without having a basic understanding of piano. As far as practicing…The last thing I remember actively practicing on piano was running through rootless minor ii v i progressions in all 12 keys through the circle of fifths. That was probably 2 or 3 years ago?!?..man, time flies. These days I mainly use piano as a tool when charting out new songs and find it easier to focus and pay more attention to song form. When learning tunes on guitar I seem to space out and start to noodle. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![reverend](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/reverend/32/283939_2.png) [@reverend](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/reverend)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/18 "2025-01-29T16:02:49Z")
> [@edhaponik](#): > > I always tell anyone that if you can play piano it helps you to understand music in a linear and visual way which informs any other instrument. All fax no printer. Wish I started wayyyy earlier on piano. Gonna go Rick Beato mode with my kids 🤣 I’ve got a super geometric guitar/strings mind, which has other strong benefits. But that linear way of viewing harmonies is so valuable to me now. This is cool, I had no clue there were so many musicians in the forum ---
**Author:** ![YoYoExpertEric](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoexperteric/32/602379_2.png) [@YoYoExpertEric](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoExpertEric)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/19 "2025-01-30T15:23:34Z")
I play here and there! I actually got re-inspired this past Christmas by a cousin who plays—I decided to learn some holiday songs to get into the festive spirit, so those have been my go-to for a while now, LOL. (Already practicing/perfecting for Xmas 2025 🤣) I also took lessons when I was younger, like Ed, which I found really valuable because it helped me understand scales and proper fingering placements for different songs. I do wish I could read music more fluently (I technically can, but I’d have to pencil in every single note) and play more by ear just by listening. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyBoi21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@JohnnyBoi21](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JohnnyBoi21)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088/20 "2025-11-13T12:38:47Z")
Been playing for a few years, mostly working on jazz pieces lately. Picked up some tips from [ArtMaster](https://www.artmaster.com) online music lessons and it’s actually fun to try stuff I wouldn’t have figured out on my own. [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/any-piano-players-out-there/418088.md?page=2)