I know a lot of adults who are finding great value in learning to play piano! It's a great skill, and worth every ounce of effort.

After the death of my dearest friend, along with my having chronic pain, after my 66th birthday i decided was time i begin piano lessons....and WOW!...something I've always wanted to do, but a hefty dose of self doubt and always too busy with work, family, keeping house etc...so never took the time until 8 weeks ago. My husband surprised me with a beautiful Grand Piano and providentially found the perfect piano teacher who's my age...I take 2 lessons per week, each one hour long and I usually practice at least 4 hours per day....surprisingly, I'm learning to read music and mastered an easy Bach piece...Prelude and Fugue C major...its boosted my confidence, lifted my depression and is a great distraction for my chronic pain....i pinch myself when I'm playing and ask myself "Why did I wait so long?"...regret the wasted years i could have been learning to read and play music...hopefully, by time I'm 70 yrs old...in four years, I'll be playing well enough to play for church service...My teacher is adamant, will be less than a year!...hmmmm i'm not so confident...keeping in mind, 'Pride goeth before a Fall!"...LoL...but seriously, its a personal deal for me...I LOVE playing piano!...why or why did I wait so long?

@hayrik

6 жыл бұрын

Zelda Zelda the most beautiful thing is that you’ve started now and you’re loving it! Well done!!! 😊

@mosichat

4 жыл бұрын

Important to remember “brain plasticity” can continue as long as you challenge your brain. Super important as we all age in defiance of the challenges of dementia. So keep going, not only are you helping to preserve your brain, but creating beautiful music as well!!!!

@recklessrat

4 жыл бұрын

Zelda Zelda o

@Omega0401

4 жыл бұрын

So happy for your success and your personal discovery of what you CAN do. Your last question says it all, by so many of us. Why oh why did I wait so long? Keep on enjoying your piano playing and never stop.

Interesting talk but these TED people really need to learn how to use microphones.

@evhwolfgang2003

7 жыл бұрын

At least he isn't breathing all over a headset like the last guy I listened to.

@mw21ray

7 жыл бұрын

is that the classical music guy? yeah. he was playing chopan and i thought, someone please! turn off the mic!

@hifijohn

6 жыл бұрын

these ted talks are spotty at best, some are very good others have speakers who are bad at public speaking , some are good and others you can barely hear the speaker.

Wonderful lecture. I would loved to have listen to more. On the other hand, his mic on his lapel obviously wasn't working. But the 2nd mic next to the person coughing worked really well, unfortunately. In fact, if it weren't for the 2nd mic, we probably would not have heard him at all. TED does not need to use audio techs that do not know what they are doing.

Learning piano has been one of the most fulfilling undertakings of my life. I don't anticipate I'll ever give it up if I don't have to.

It's not fair for the speaker, the Microphone is at the person who coughs :(

@21Cauzzie

7 жыл бұрын

People should learn how to be an audience. Stifle coughs and take cough lollies if you go to a concert. People seem to like the sound of their own coughs.

@izikblu

7 жыл бұрын

Are you British? (not that there would be a problem with that, it's just here in America I think we call those cough drops ;) )

Shame about the poor sound quality. You need a wireless link from the output of the p.a. to the input of the camera.

Great content! Yes the audio is poor... but for THESE reasons: Clark's lapel mike is for the house system.. which mean that the "audience" can hear him fine. However the lapel is NOT input to the video feed we are watching, therefore, the audio that we are suffering through is from another source such as a camera (smart phone) from the audience itself. Yup --the cougher! Ugh!

This is just too tedious to listen to. Clark Bryan should be offered a chance to re-record this talk.

It is not seldom that whenever a pianist starts playing the piano, people start coughing. One hears that in concerts, recitals etc. Why that is beats me. This is the first time though that one actually coughs into the mic. Very distracting.

I'm 32. It is my second year. It is so hard. I study 8 hours per day. I realized I'm a slow learner. I gave up many things for this, but it is worthy.

This talk is very interesting, the speaker is intriguing but the noise from the audience prevails and ruins it all. It's a shame!

encore please!!! Clark, please repeat your talk in a place that isn't fighting you! Perhaps in your own studio? Why was there a microphone next to an audience member anyway??!! shame shame

The talk was good but sound quality poor. The coughing woman was truly annoying.

I admit to bailing out midway, but, given the title of the video, does anyone else consider it click bait?

i once heard that when doing a talk there are 3 stages. 1 tell them what you are going to tell them. 2 tell them 3 tell them what you told them.

@JohanBesterphotos

7 жыл бұрын

+Sukhbir Sekhon Yes, and sometimes they never get to the "tell them" part. :-)

@MixMastaCopyCat

4 жыл бұрын

what if you recursively performed all 3 stages within each stage

Cough cough cough Cough and more cough! Enough already!

WHY wasn't the audio taken care of before this show???? Why is the coughing person by the mic???? Isn't there Ted staff that work the tech stuff....????

@prismoffett7577

7 жыл бұрын

Daniela, I requested Clark present this in his own studio - He is amazing !! and it is shameful that the production was such a disaster!!

You’d think someone with a chronic cough would have enough respect for the person speaking to leave the room.

@emerydavis.

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Thankfully, still no covid during that time.

Better sound available?(main reason didn't score like button yet).thanks in advance

I have a terrible attention span, but somehow studying piano came completely natural to me when I was fourteen years old, and was absolutely not any tremendous amount of work. Probably a personal thing. In my case, I found the interest through experiencing for the first time extreme boredom. So if anything, if you're having too much fun and want to find in yourself to take on something like piano, just become bored. People gotta learn how to become bored.

@minnieyuyantung

Жыл бұрын

me too, I also have terrible attention span, but I can sit in front of a piano for 4 hours, just to figue out how to play a line of a piece!

This should be titled, "Annoying Cough"!!! It'a impossible to hear and focus on the talk because the coughs are so loud and annoying!! I've watched only a few minutes and I can't take it anymore. I'll have to stop the video.

@Schmidthorst69

3 жыл бұрын

Same with me. I wonder why they put this bad audio here on youtube.

Why is the microphone picking up the audience? It's very annoying and I don't know if I can take 19 minutes of this. I'm writing this at 3.28.

I was gonna take piano lessons until I found out I couldn’t take the sound of a coughing woman. It’s an omen.

I couldn’t get any from him. The microphone was too far from his mouth.

I'll come back to watch this after that woman gets a cough drop. For the love of.....

Geepers, is TB going around.

Could not watch due to so much of coughing and giggling - not a TED quality production.

Why use microphones?

Just started lessons its really challenging but I need it

What a pity that the audio quality is soo bad! I couldn't watch this video til the end due to the strong and very annoying cough in the audience.

nothing hear told me why take piano lessons, should have told that rude cougher to leave the room.

microphone is too low down on his coat. surprised nobody in audience complained

Who's that constantly coughing?? Unintended interruptions is to be avoided at all costs in music.

@kentvandervelden

7 жыл бұрын

Professional performers can handle it. Although, as I listener I cannot :) We are likely hearing some unfortunate mixing, because the sound greatly improves when the piano starts.

Day 1 of simply piano 0:27 Week 1 of simply piano 0:43 2 months of simply piano 0:57

does anyone know the name of the second piece Clark Bryan played , the one by Beethoven ?

@TransfectionVamp

7 жыл бұрын

Sonata no. 30, Op 109 in E major, first movement

@Torebordalpiano

5 жыл бұрын

@@TransfectionVamp which started out great, but then..

Recording sound is bad like someone using cellphone to record it

should be titled why learn/play piano there is nothing said here of any relevance to lessons

@susanchicagousa401

6 жыл бұрын

I believe that you can increase the number of neurons in your brain and the activity of playing shows how well you have created a bigger neural network while listening to beautiful sounds. The increased network seems to spill over into many areas of life leading to a joyful existence overall. In summary, the reason to learn to play the piano increases intelligence and ability to harmonize with other people because the piano player better understands all the nuances of what it takes to harmonize with other people's thinking and is willing to work at harmonizing. Clark Bryan does a beautiful job of explaining the importance of learning something new. Dr. Rudy Tanzi, a brain researcher who also lectures on youtube, explains the importance of learning something new all the time. Learning new songs is the most pleasurable of trying out new stuff since lovely sounds are inherent in the activity.

Bad Audio.

A shame the cougher was so close to the mic. Ruined it.

I’ll subscribe but please! No coughing!

No. I've had enough. 7.04.

The audio track on this video is TERRIBLE!! The person coughing right beside the mic through the whole video was EXTREMELY annoying!

i'm sorry... i had to stop watching this video halfway... sigh...

Coughers!

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All I can hear is coughing

The girl coughing into the mike is very irritating and spoils your talk. It masks lots of vital word WE need to hear.

UWO? More like OWO amirite gamers

the person who keeps coughing should use either a hand or handkerchief - a normal lesson of civilization! I is annoying!!!!!

very interesting but what a shame all the bad mic and the woman coughing non stop ! what a pest !

The sound is horrible

Too bad they didn't think his presentation was important enough to mic up.

It was click bait! Nothing was taught, except to have patience with a quiet talking voice and a rude coughing person. So; Why Take Piano Lessons? The answer is because you don't need to, unless you want to take two years out of your life and end up playing The Sugar Plum Fairy sonata... you are more likely to have others playing instruments join you and jam, if you play something that isn't so anti-social... Unless you really want to be a soloist.... But the fun of jamming with two or more, is amazing, and far more enjoyable, unless you really want to perform to others that are sitting down listening to you, and who will probably clap in applause, after each song you play. Learn to play the sort of music you enjoy listening to, and play by ear! Get a basic book, and have a good easy time. You will learn enough in half the time, and progress by jamming with others.

Content is good but the coughing woman undermines the entire video!