It's not too late to learn a new instrument

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Whether you grew up playing music or you never progressed beyond "Hot Cross Buns," it's not too late to pick up a new instrument. Let fun lead the way and lose yourself in the joy of learning. Joel Snape, who picked up piano at age 40, offers tips for beginners.

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0:29.8	Hey every Hey everyone I'm Lianna Maria Percirruis in for Mariel Zagera. In 2019, Joel Snape moved back to his family home in England to take care of his dad who had suddenly become seriously sick.
0:37.0	My dad was always kind of a, he would put her around with music, and he had this old Yamaha keyboard and I was like
0:43.0	piano is kind of always something I've thought about trying and so I thought
0:47.8	maybe this is a good time to try it like maybe this is now or never and it
0:51.6	really gave me something to kind of focus on and put my energy
0:55.2	into that felt a bit positive among like the other stuff that was happening.
0:59.8	Joel is a journalist and he does lots of YouTube videos about the things he's learning about.
1:04.4	Okay, I've been learning piano for about four and a half years now and no people have been very nice about my progress.
1:10.0	I think I could have probably learned more and improved faster if I knew then what I know now.
1:16.0	Joel was 40 years old when he started.
1:18.0	Basically very little experience playing music.
1:21.0	Like I think I remembered like the old
1:22.8	mnemonic every good boy deserves favors from like school so that that was as far as I
1:28.0	had ever got with learning to read music. So yeah he didn't really have a musical background but he was drawn to
1:34.5	music and the piano in particular. It sounds really strange but actually when
1:39.1	Westworld came out that had a big influence on my wanting to learn the piano because they've got those beautiful
1:44.4	piano arrangements of pop songs like Amy Winehouse.
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