holy moly!

Today i gave myself my first piano lesson.. I didn’t bother with scales or finger exercises or anything like that i just jumped right into playing a song. I worked on the right hand notes first and then the left which plays the chords...BAD IDEA!!! I ended up getting so frustrated with the chords because my fingers felt awkward and it was hard. So when I practice tomorrow I will definitely start with the left hand and then do the right.

Since we are still on this topic of piano I wanted to share some photos from my childhood. These photos captured some of my most fond memories with my “mamaw” if we weren’t at the electric organ or the piano we were cooking something oh so fattening but superbly scrumptious in her kitchen.

I remember sitting with her at her organ and listening to her play hymns and Christmas songs for hours and hours.
Though I don’t really remember her ever teaching me to play a song I’m sure she at least attempted.

Even after she would quit playing and move on to something else i would sit at her organ for hours and hours and just play around. I think her allowing me to do this gave me a great ear for music later on in life and a passion that i would not have had if i didnt have the chance to explore on my own. Without tha passion I likely would not have persued other musical instruments in school and I know for a fact i wouldnt have the desire to play the piano now.

I was so enamored that i some how convinced my parents that i wanted to play piano and WE GOT ONE!! My very own piano :) i was probably around 6 when we got it and i couldnt bare to not be able to play SOMETHING so i asked for lessons. Shortly after i got lessons i decided it was to hard and ended up quiting. Looking back i wish i would have stayed with it or my parents had made me keep going. Because from what i hear its alot harder to learn as an adult.

For that reason my children will play piano... no matter how much they wine and complain about having to practice or go to lessons i will not compromise on that. If only for the dicipline and the coordination they will learn weather they like it or not.

And i just hope that one day they will have the fond memories that I do that are brought up by the sound of a piano playing. I hope that they can melt when they hear someone playing, or that others will get chills and have tears come to their eyes listening to them the way i listen to my frineds when they sit on that majestic piano bench.