Hey! So I started producing music about two years ago.

I realized that playing piano would be a major boon for me. And so I began "teaching" myself piano by playing chords, improvising, and doing scales.

After about 18 mo., I could noodle fairly well - according to me - so I looked around for a course that could help teach me new ideas and give me more structured practice.

I found Pianote and have really enjoyed it: I picked up left hand arpeggios, I have very comfortable inversions... and I'm even learning to sight read.

Listen: If you give me a basic pop song and you tell me to play it in a couple of days, I will have that song consistent for you in a day or two.

HERE'S THE QUESTION:

I want to break into scoring and composing. I'm in love.

But I see people sit down and just PLAY piano (like a video I'll link in the comments) and I am worried my current path won't take me from here to there.

No reason why a course like Pianote WOULDN'T... I just literally am too new, and too shit to know what the path from here to there IS.

Can anyone shed some light onto the journey from here to there? I know it's a totally reasonable thing to achieve: These are just people improvising both hands over established chords. And the gains I've made in the past two years are already stunning, to me.

Just, as someone with no musical past, the idea that I am some distance away from playing like THIS blows my mind. And I don't know whats a reasonable time commitment between these points... or if I need to take a special path to get there. Thank you.