I am so close to being able to play through Prelude in C without making one or two little mistakes along the way. So close!

I'm also starting to work on The Sunlit Garden from Revolutionary Girl Utena a little bit. That's the song that Miki plays on the piano. But...I might switch over to the intro to Watermark instead? Dunno.

The job hunt is ( Read more... )

I'm spending more than five or ten minutes at the piano for the first time since my dad died, and it feels really good.

It was also feeling confusing because the final -fanfare? flourish? I don't know the right term - of the last two measures of Bach's Prelude in C just wasn't sounding right. I decided I had to watch someone play it so I pulled up ( Read more... )

Looks like when you don't practice a musical instrument for over a month, you get out of practice. Who knew? I think maybe my mind is at a place where I can do it again.

Miriam and I watched some anime today and it made me think about something for the first time. Is it possible that part (not all!) of the reason I want to learn piano is that, so ( Read more... )

While my bicycle was being stolen late last week (more on that later; it's quite a story and I did get it back!), Miriam and I were driving to Prince Albert and Saskatoon and back. We ended up in a situation where we're not quite sure whether we were taken advantage of, or whether we took advantage of someone, or if it all kind of evens out. I'm ( Read more... )

I thought it would take longer for my piano practice to encounter limitations imposed by my hardware ( Read more... )

In the Netherlands, I had a Nektar MIDI controller for piano practice. It was usable, but the key action was pretty bad. Looking for a local deal on a used keyboard with better action, I found this Robson on Kijiji for $60 CAD, so a little under $50 USD.

I expected it to use samples rather than synthesis if it's advertised as a digital piano (and ( Read more... )