RuthPower Thanks Ruth for your welcome. Hampton Wick is a lovely little place by Kingston Bridge, although busy and difficult to park we have big beautiful parks, tow paths by the River Thames, shopping and good connections to shopping, trains and planes.
So you were in East/South London... maybe you know the world near our grown-up daughter who lives in Peckham/Dulwich borders?
Looking back I've had a few times when I've applied myself to piano. At 17 I learned to play a simple 12 bar blues in C. Then not much playing for 20 years until we got a piano teacher for our kinds and I'd fill in when one of our two kids missed a lesson. I picked up a Chopin Prelude and a couple of Erik Satie pieces, that I've long forgotten. A couple of years ago I decided to have another go and took some lessons in more of a jazz/blues vein.
Since I've been staggered and overwhelmed by how much there is to learn. I played in a weekly jazz workshop at a local college when this was not interupted by COVID and now it's interrupted by the arrival of grandchildren.
I'm interested in boiling what I can play down to a kind of essence or inner competence that I can hold onto that lets me play easily, sounds good to my ear and to anyone else who might listen.
Your Riffing Pro seems a smart way to approach piano playing without music - and this is on the right lines for me.
