I (47M) recently decided that I needed a new hobby as the ones I was involved in had fizzled out for one reason or another and found myself with more free time and wasn’t being overly productive. I saw the digital piano we bought for our kids a few Xmas’s ago sitting unused in the family room and figured that learning to play it properly was a good idea. I relocated it to one of my spaces and started learning how to read from sheet music and approach it as methodically as I can.

As mentioned in other posts, I have been playing guitar for 30 years and have dabbled with piano from a self-taught song-writers perspective, I’ve never tried learning any complete songs and any known songs I played was all from ear only.

I’m focussing on basic classical pieces for sight reading practice and also working my way through Für Elise. I just wrapped my head around section B of that and have got it figured out where it’s sounding musical and I can’t get enough of this feeling!

There’s something “different” about playing piano than guitar for me. Maybe it’s just the honeymoon phase, but nailing a section of a beautiful piece of music on piano is a fantastic feeling and has me wanting more of it. It consumes my thoughts and I can’t wait to sit at the piano again when I’m not there. I feel addicted, haha. That normal?