What Practicing the Piano for 15 Minutes a Day for 30 Days Accomplished

I am not by any stretch of the imagination an accomplished piano player.

John Iovine
7 min readJan 18, 2021
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination an accomplished piano player. In fact, you could size up my ability to learn the piano to that of a chicken that plays the piano by a person putting a kernel of food on a piano key and having the chicken hitting the piano key to grab the kernel of food.

I had a small 77 key keyboard for a few years but didn’t play with it much. Then I decided, well, if I’m going to take the time to learn to play, then I’d like a full-size keyboard. Just in case I actually sat down at a real piano, I didn’t want the key sizes to be different. So I purchased a YAMAHA DGX660B 88-Key Weighted Digital Piano.

What I Like About The Piano

What I like about a piano, in comparison to a stringed instrument like the guitar, is that if you get your finger over the right key and strike it, you hear a perfect note. This is not the case with a stringed instrument. You have to get your finger in the right position, hold the string down with a proper amount of pressure on the fretboard, then pluck the proper string (the string where your other hand is holding the note) with your opposite hand. Numerous…

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John Iovine

Science writer, thinker, self-experimenter, focusing on personal development and health — www.john-iovine.com