About
Pere is a self taught pianist, who has decided to journal his experiences on the piano. Starting out by accidenting his way through the piano to learn common songs as an adult, he quickly got immersed in it. Making improvisations was joined with learning a few music theory concepts. After over 2 years recording these spontaneous improvisations on his phone, he decided to challenge himself to write out this music.
Pere grew up in Nigeria where access to musical instruments was generally a rarity in middle class homes. However his older siblings being exposed to classical music would eventually influence his musical tastes. His love for instrumental music grew stronger after receiving an MP3 filled with Ludovico Einaudi’s music as far back as 2011. The melancholy and beautiful melodies being absolutely absorbing would stick in his heart, and when he found a piano he would try to recreate these melodies with little knowledge of music theory (thanks to the key of C major).
On receiving his first keyboard as a gift from his elder brother in early 2021, he never looked back. Starting out with purchasing a piano-for-all ebook, and working through the fundametals of pop music, he continually searched the internet for learning pathways to improve piano and music theory. He quickly found that learning difficult repertoire was not only a long arduous pathway, but it was not the most enjoyable thing he did on the piano. This gave birth to classical/neoclassical improvisations which have filled his library of phone recordings; he says it could take him up to 10 years to transcribe all the music, and he desires
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