Two weeks ago I finally started piano lessons. I have wanted to play piano for a very long time. Mom bought me a keyboard when I was a teenager and I taught myself to play several songs, all of the ones in the easy music book, but of course that is not real playing. When I was in highschool the pianist for the choir started crying when I told her I didn't play. She lifted up my hands and held her own up to it and told me she would kill to have my hands. It kind of stuck with me.
So I have finally found myself in a position where taking lessons won't effect anything else around me, gives me something enjoyable to do, and I can actually take the time needed to learn.
The fun parts of my lessons....
my teacher is Japanese and her English (perfectly passable) is not very good for the music lessons. My Japanese is of course far worse. So she is teaching me with a lot of stops and starts as she searches for the words. Lucky for me Mr. Washburn's choir class was required to know some music theory, so I am able to figure out where she is going with a lot of it.
My first day she gave me a piece to practice on. She chose Praeludium I by Bach. Prelude in C I think is the translation. Sounds hard, but she says that I have natural tempo, a gifted ability for holding my fingers properly and I move well across the keys. However, two of my fingers are weak, so this week she gave me Czerny for practicing my volumn and fingerings. And the C major scales so I can get use to flipping to my third finger, since I always go to the fourth instead.
This is a seriously hard hobby, but I am a quick study and I enjoy the practicing aspect. I will be able to move quickly into this song. It was funny. She went to get a drink of water while I was practicing and she had a metronome with her to see how my natural tempo is. She came back very excited because I was as steady as can be in a beginning student. She said that I was slow (of course... beginner here) but that I maintained a steady tempo and my beat was spot on. I told her I could hear the song in my head.
So now she is planning to arrange a concert of all her students for next year. So I have something I really need to practice. I am going to go borrow Susan's (my neighbor) piano for an hour or so.
Hope you are all doing wonderful.
Oh, side note. We are getting a dog. Not a puppy, and we are dog sitting over the summer to make sure we all fit together well, but I am looking forward to having a furry friend who can hang out with the boys.
So I have finally found myself in a position where taking lessons won't effect anything else around me, gives me something enjoyable to do, and I can actually take the time needed to learn.
The fun parts of my lessons....
my teacher is Japanese and her English (perfectly passable) is not very good for the music lessons. My Japanese is of course far worse. So she is teaching me with a lot of stops and starts as she searches for the words. Lucky for me Mr. Washburn's choir class was required to know some music theory, so I am able to figure out where she is going with a lot of it.
My first day she gave me a piece to practice on. She chose Praeludium I by Bach. Prelude in C I think is the translation. Sounds hard, but she says that I have natural tempo, a gifted ability for holding my fingers properly and I move well across the keys. However, two of my fingers are weak, so this week she gave me Czerny for practicing my volumn and fingerings. And the C major scales so I can get use to flipping to my third finger, since I always go to the fourth instead.
This is a seriously hard hobby, but I am a quick study and I enjoy the practicing aspect. I will be able to move quickly into this song. It was funny. She went to get a drink of water while I was practicing and she had a metronome with her to see how my natural tempo is. She came back very excited because I was as steady as can be in a beginning student. She said that I was slow (of course... beginner here) but that I maintained a steady tempo and my beat was spot on. I told her I could hear the song in my head.
So now she is planning to arrange a concert of all her students for next year. So I have something I really need to practice. I am going to go borrow Susan's (my neighbor) piano for an hour or so.
Hope you are all doing wonderful.
Oh, side note. We are getting a dog. Not a puppy, and we are dog sitting over the summer to make sure we all fit together well, but I am looking forward to having a furry friend who can hang out with the boys.
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