Hello blind community.
I'm a bit of a musician; I sing eternally, dabble a bit in the guitar and the piano, and lazily write lyrics/songs when I feel inspired. However, I've been trying to get a bit more into piano playing as of recent, and there's one thing that I don't think I realized so much until now:
Everything is sheet music, man. If you want to learn the guitar, there are a thousand websites dedicated to documenting the chords necessary to learn songs, but that's hardly the case for anything piano (or at least, from what I've come across while googling). I have a pretty good ear, and I know the basics: crossing over fingers to play scales, I know enough music theory to figure out proper chord composition/how to learn scales themselves, but my ear definitely isn't good enough to teach myself everything auditorily.
I realize that me not knowing what it is that I want to learn on the piano isn't helping my case--I'd like to learn enough to be able to accompany myself while singing, but I also have a vague sort of desire to play classical music as well. I realize that those incorporate completely different things, but I wouldn't mind fluctuating between the two--if I even could, you know?
Noteworthy things:
-yes, I am completely blind. Synthesia, print music, and the like are not options for me.
-my ear is good enough to pick up melodies, but not the composition of the entire chord itself, presumably. I'd be open to trying to fix that, if you guys have suggestions for that.
-I'm not super learned in braille music, but I know a tad. I just don't know how useful that even is--since programs that would be useful for transcribing braille music from print music cost an arm and a leg.
-I know basic piano technique; that's not really my worry here. I am definitely open to new things that you think a blind person wouldn't have been taught in about a month's worth of piano lessons, though.
I guess just if you guys have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!