Find Your Niche

Coming back to blogging feels nostalgic - even if I gear this blog towards my most familiar topic - the piano. Nowadays, many use social media to advertise their various products and services. I am no different.

But I still feel....social media is fake and we all know that.

Well well well. I have been playing the piano since the age of 6.5 and started teaching right after my A Levels, throughout my Uni journey and obviously, after my Uni. I stayed classical all the way, only branching out to some pop when I get sick of classical.

I feel that the piano world is not divided into classical or non-classical. Obviously there are camps everywhere, but the market is kind of fluid.

If I can put it this way - You need not find your genre, but you need to find your niche.

For me, my niche is the ABRSM syllabus (I went all the way, classically, vocationally and professionally) & not-to-my surprise, pop pieces!

The journey has always been clear. I started to sight-read some USA pops in my early 20s, got sucked into Yiruma and Joe H. before Covid happened. But I realised my niche is actually Chinese pop when my uncle from China bought me two books just this year.

These two books are piano transcriptions of music from C-dramas and C-culture. The transcriptor themselves are piano teachers and arrangers from the Chinese market - mainland Chinese. I enjoyed those two books very much. In fact, so much that I think, I found my niche on the piano.

I don't need to try. I feel natural. I am natural. I don't need to imagine anything. I am the music. There is no need for me to breathe with the music, because my natural breathing is the music!

Classical Western and Chinese pop?! I think.... even if I never become well-liked or famous - at least I know my forte (s). (: