Suzuki method

OK, after a long hiatus on posting about piano, here I am again. I'll not say I'll try to post more often and what not, because I know how lazy I am about these things.

After struggling a lot with technique, which I totally lack, I've realized that the Suzuki method can be indeed of some help.
My single month of classes made me think about how I could improve my self-teaching schemes.

Suzuki can be helpful, yes, as it starts very slowly and simple enough. Though at that time I couldn't play the pieces very well, which made me feel frustrated because I had to practice for a relatively long time only to play a crappy song (that really sucked, who'd want to listen to such crappy songs? - even I couldn't bear them), now I can play the 1st volume songs not spending much effort. I think my sight read improved a little and my fingers are somewhat more "educated".

This, I believe was because I "had" to practice that very same crappy pieces. That's because, I noticed, there's lots of patterns which are featured in almost all of the "standard repertoire" pieces. Like scales and Alberti bass accompaniments. Mozart, for instance loves Alberti basses (see the 1st movement of Piano Sonata KV 545). Even Beethoven have them on the Presto agitato from the Moonlight (the only difference is that they are ultra-fast and they span wide chords).

Realizing it or not, fact is that I can play those more easily than before. \o/

Another good thing is that of practicing sight reading. Although I can't sight read, I can play slowly reading the notes. Eventually, I believe, I'll be able to sight read if I keep on with this method. Even if it's only simple repertoire, it's OK for me. Suzuki is perfect for that.

I read somewhere about the repertoire that is featured on Suzuki. It totally lacks pieces from the Romantic era. No Chopin, no Liszt, no Schubert. But it said that Suzuki builds somewhat like the history of piano, beginning with Bach up to Mozart and Beethoven. And this development makes you kinda trained on playing early pieces, which are the same pieces the Romantics studied prior to composing theirs. This makes sense, I guess. There it said that people who can play those early music can play the Romantics, but not the inverse. And I believe that too. If you could play, say, some of the Bach's infernal contrapunctus from Kunst der Fuge you can play almost anything! You must have worked on so much independent fingers, hands, arms and most importantly, brain, that I think you can almost play the melody backwards and the accompaniment forwards! One day I wish I can tell if my ideas are true or not.

Let's see if this new method of work will have positive effects or not.