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 Last Friday I met up with my friend Adrian, who has recently come back from studying abroad in Spain. Adrian has been playing piano since he was four years old, and offered me some very enlightening information, as I was having trouble playing the right and left hand at different tempos. Apparently, a better strategy is to learn one hand at a time rather than both, starting from the left, so I'll be doing that from now on!

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  I thought I'd put my list of songs. I probably won't get to all of them, but it gives me a lot of options.      I've found that some are better than others for my method, ones that have the notes on the bars that slide down help me find a pattern. A lot of it is pattern memorization.      Something that throws me off is when the left hand notes are at a different pace or tempo than the right hand ones. It's difficult to have my hands do different things. Maybe should I be learning each hand separately, then bringing them together? Today I worked more on Lola trying to perfect the second half, and tried "Sunny Afternoon" and "Can't take my eyes off you". It's a bit frustrating when I keep forgetting what happens, and I stall. I guess it takes longer to learn a song than I had thought. Also, I should mention, I believe these aren't the piano backings for songs, rather the song itself piano version. I try to avoid the backings.