I was playing the piano yesterday . I used to play the piano ( I don't play the piano anymore. I stopped playing the piano last year) I had been playing the piano since I was 5 years old ( Still performing the piano)

They are different pasts. "I was playing the piano" is a past continuous. Is used when the action you are talking about was not finished yet when, for example, something happened: I was playing the piano when the bell rang. "I used to play the piano" is something you used to do in the past, but you don't do it anymore. Ex. I used to play the piano when I was a kid. Also, this usually refers to a habit, like playing a sport, playing an instrument, or going in a certain place (ex. I used to go to school by bus every morning) "I had played the piano" is a past perfect. It means that you did it before something else (ex. I knew her because I had played with her years before). "I had been playing the piano" is a past perfect progressive. It is something that happened in the past and ended in the past. (Ex. The boys came home very tired because they had been playing football)

Yes, they are different forms of the past tense. I was playing the piano. - at a time before now, perhaps yesterday, last week and so on. I used to play the piano. - I've stopped playing the piano but in the past, I played the piano. I have played the piano. - It's an activity that I completed. I have had breakfast. I have played the piano. I had been playing the piano since (a time, e.g.) I was a child./I was ten years old./five years ago. Hope that helps! :)

I was playing the piano. This means the action of playing the piano was going on in the past implying that it was a continuous activity in the past and had not been completed at the time being referred to. I used to play the piano. This means that it was a routine or rather a habit you had; implying that you regularly used to play the piano but not anymore. I had played the piano. This means that you had completed the act in the past implying that the action was complete in the past being referred to. I had been playing the piano. This means that the action of playing the piano was going in the past implying that the action being referred to was a continuous one. Kindly refer to the grammar topics; tense and aspect.

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