Sunday, October 24, 2010
blog 32
I took piano lessons for about six years but when my family moved from Pittsburgh to New Albany I stopped taking lessons. When I stopped taking lessons I was pretty good but now, not so much. I still play from time to time but now when I want to learn to play a song it takes much longer than it used to and I normally don’t end up learning the whole song. Looking back I wish I had continued taking piano lessons when my family moved but now its too late for that. I would kill to be able to play as well as Billy Joel, or Elton John. It always relaxes me to sit down at a nice piano and just start playing but there are only a few songs that I can play perfectly just from memory, and those songs aren’t too complicated but they sound pretty good. I want to learn how to play jazz piano someday. It would be cool to be able to just sit down at a piano and start laying down jazz chords. My biggest problem with learning how to play different songs is that I often want to learn songs that are beyond my skill level and I don’t have the patience to really learn to play them well. I want to be able to play the songs but I don’t want to put the required amount of energy into learning how. I guess that’s true for a lot of things in life, you want the reward but you don’t really want to work for it.
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When I was six my mom forced me to choose between playing the violin and piano. At the time, I didn't want to pick it up because I knew it would require a lot of hard work, but I chose violin. She forced me to play until college, and though I really hated it the first 5 years, I really came to appreciate playing an instrument and am really glad my mom made me continue to do something musical. You know, they do have piano classes here. You should look them up! I plan on taking beginning piano next quarter - I'm excited :)
ReplyDeleteI think its always a struggle to start playing an instrument. Its hard because it takes a lot of work to get to the point you want to be at, but you have to understand that once you're there all the hard work put in is worth it. I got a guitar when I was in 6th grade and I took lessons for 6 months, but I quit because I wasn't as good as I wanted to be. Around the winter of 9th grade, I just picked up my guitar to mess around and started remembering all the old songs I could play. I really picked it up from there and I have been regularly playing ever since and it really is a blast to get good at your favorite songs. However, I do always want to get better, and I realize that the only way is to keep on going.
ReplyDeleteI feel really blessed to be able to have the opportunity to play an instrument. Something about making music is so different from listening to it. Though both are really enjoyable, whenever I play an instrument I fall into this kind of "zone" where nothing else in the world matters, and all my worries go away. It's just me in my own world, and something about it is just so great. Music is such a universal language and it really is something I think everyone should find a way to connect to. I guess that's why I want to pick up an instrument again. The real trouble is just scheduling in the time to be able to really enjoy it haha.
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