Month: May 2019

Last week, i start to learn how to play piano, and i found out it is not that easy as i thought before. I finished the plan from last week and learn some simple music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRMXLPfdDA

then, i try two hands play together :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwNNXN_pbE

During the study, the most challenge part is combine two hands together and play it evenly. I need to not only focus on the melody on the right hand, but also be careful let left hand play the right chord, however, i still can not do it well.

From this week reading, i found out that online collaborative learning (which from chapter 4) will be very useful for me.  My mum is professional in playing the piano, but she is lives in my hometown -China, during my challenge, i communicate with her and she gives my a big help as an “instructor” through internet. Then she discussed different idea with me as a “learner” and we analysis.

For the next week, i will mainly focus on the left hand part, and figure out is that possible that different ways of playing left hand can be suitable with the same right hand melody.

Piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument, it is pretty hard to start this challenge during summer, because of the weather or other different things that make it difficult to be motivated. So, firstly start to organized a plan for me to learn it better.

Because i do not have a piano at home, but lucky me, at university of Victoria, there have many in the mac building. So, i may start recognize each notes and get familiar with every part of the piano, then start to play it. Here is my plan for this week practice:

1.Get familiar with the notes and the key. Music notes are marked by the letter A B C D E F G, with every chord, the blank and the white key will change to flat or sharp. So the first step for me is to recognized the basic chord and try to play it.

2.Study the timing and try some simple music. The different beats create the beautiful music, so, get familiar with the beats and play it well is pretty difficult. The next step is practice with different simple music using the basic chord.

As related to the reading, “there are three important domains: cognitive, affective, and psycho-motor.” from chapter 2. For my challenge i will mostly using psycho-motor and affective. Practice is very important for learning the piano, as long as have enough practice, the hands will have the self-memory and finish some fixed behavior. During my challenge, i will record the video and post it. If you have any suggestion or questions, please fell free and leave the comment.

 

Hi, everyone. My name is yuchen yuan, and i am a fourth year undergraduate student in university of Victoria. I am an international student and my major is Economic in social science. I had taken other online study course before, and i really enjoy this way of study. I take EDCI335 as a elective course because i’m very interested in the web design, so i really want to learn some technique from this corse.

Learning Experience

Recently, my favorite learning experience is working at a mall as a sell. It not only give me a chance to improve my English skill, but also training my self to communicate with different people and get some experience.