ok so way back when, like ten years ago, i took piano lessons, i loved them!
and well i had to stop after like 4 years of having them and so i kinda forgot most of what i had learned, i mean, i still know the basic concepts of the piano and some notes, and i have managed to still remember how to play one song from memory which has been kul, but the past few years ive just REALLY wanted to actually be able to PLAY the piano! i mean, i love music so much that it just would make sense to be able to play it on some type of instrument instead of constantly asking my musically talented friends to play me the songs. so i just picked up a hymnal at the church one day after work and started finding the keys and Michele helped me learn about the whole flat/sharp thing a little, and i just started out wanting to be able to play my favorite hymn, "Come thou fount of every blessing" and i kinda was able to hack out how to play the whole thing on the treble side of life(with lots of help from Michele and Kristen and Annie). and then today i was like, (two days after starting this endevour) lets learn the left hand, and well, its complicated to try to play both at once, its gonna take some time.
and then today, while i was workin on that, Michele hands me a paper that had a song and just the basic chords used on it and was like "i bet you could play that" and i was like, "well, im sure i could, If i knew the CHORDS!!!" lol and so that led to me just thinkin "I HAVE A BORDERS GIFT CARD!!!!! LETS GO GET A BOOK ON CHORDS!!!!!" so after work, Michele, Kristen and myself went to borders, and after Kristen had flipped through a bunch of books and i had just kinda searched for something on piano, we finally decided that "the complete idiots guide to playing piano" was the book i would get, and then Kristen got this book on music theory called "Harmony and Theory" because she is teaching some people theory, and well we went back to her house, had dinner, werent able to go to this bible study we wanted to go to so she began to teach/reteach me how to play the piano. and after that, i have decided that im going to go back to borders and get the book she got as well, because it has ways to practice the dif notes and writing them and i just helps you learn how to read the sheet music alot better.
IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait to get ahold of a piano tomorrow! hope i can!
man am i out of practice though, i was having some trouble staying on beat...metronomeing is DIFFICULT!!!!
and well i had to stop after like 4 years of having them and so i kinda forgot most of what i had learned, i mean, i still know the basic concepts of the piano and some notes, and i have managed to still remember how to play one song from memory which has been kul, but the past few years ive just REALLY wanted to actually be able to PLAY the piano! i mean, i love music so much that it just would make sense to be able to play it on some type of instrument instead of constantly asking my musically talented friends to play me the songs. so i just picked up a hymnal at the church one day after work and started finding the keys and Michele helped me learn about the whole flat/sharp thing a little, and i just started out wanting to be able to play my favorite hymn, "Come thou fount of every blessing" and i kinda was able to hack out how to play the whole thing on the treble side of life(with lots of help from Michele and Kristen and Annie). and then today i was like, (two days after starting this endevour) lets learn the left hand, and well, its complicated to try to play both at once, its gonna take some time.
and then today, while i was workin on that, Michele hands me a paper that had a song and just the basic chords used on it and was like "i bet you could play that" and i was like, "well, im sure i could, If i knew the CHORDS!!!" lol and so that led to me just thinkin "I HAVE A BORDERS GIFT CARD!!!!! LETS GO GET A BOOK ON CHORDS!!!!!" so after work, Michele, Kristen and myself went to borders, and after Kristen had flipped through a bunch of books and i had just kinda searched for something on piano, we finally decided that "the complete idiots guide to playing piano" was the book i would get, and then Kristen got this book on music theory called "Harmony and Theory" because she is teaching some people theory, and well we went back to her house, had dinner, werent able to go to this bible study we wanted to go to so she began to teach/reteach me how to play the piano. and after that, i have decided that im going to go back to borders and get the book she got as well, because it has ways to practice the dif notes and writing them and i just helps you learn how to read the sheet music alot better.
IM EXCITED!!!!!!!!!! I cant wait to get ahold of a piano tomorrow! hope i can!
man am i out of practice though, i was having some trouble staying on beat...metronomeing is DIFFICULT!!!!
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It helps if you have your eyes open and the hair out of your face.
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