You Play a Little

A few pieces and simple notation — connect technique to theory and repertoire

What you can probably do now

You can play a few pieces end to end, read simple notation, and you learn by copying a recording or a teacher's demonstration. Change the key, the style, or the piece, and speed collapses.

The one thing to fix

Connect the hands to the ear and the mouth: where scales and chords sit on the instrument must match how they sound. Once that lines up, practice stops being memorised motion. Start with a piece you already play: name its key, its chord positions and where the melody goes.

Three pages to start

• Interval — the smallest unit of harmony and scales; everything you hear starts with distance.
• How to practise so it works — define the problem, narrow the range, get feedback at once.
• Memorisation — give the music several indexes so it holds on stage.

Do not touch yet

Secondary dominants and augmented sixths, orchestration, mixing and mastering, AI generation. What is missing is connecting what you already have, not more new nouns.

How you know you have moved up

• With a new score you read rhythm first, then pitch, without hunting for the recording.
• You can hear which phrase a large leap lands in.
• Within two weeks a piece plays through without stopping, and you can stop and restart it at will.