Playing the Grand

One of the best things in life is playing the piano. There is nothing like it in the world! Although it fun to just sit down and play whatever I am in the mood to play, being able to play the piano and just "jam" away at the keys was not a talent that I accomplished in one night. I have been playing piano since I was 6 years of age. I  feel every person should have the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument.

I admit it wasn't always fun to play. When I first started playing or rather I should say learning to play, it was absolutely tiring and as child, quite draining. But after several years of playing, the songs became fun to play and as time when by, it became rather fun to just sit down and start playing a song cause well, I could actually sit and play something that I would enjoy playing. Now, I can listen to a song and within little time at all I can roughly figure out how to play the song. 

I think the best feeling though is being to play what I want to play. When I started learning, I couldn't play just any song cause I didn't know how to play any song. How could I hope to play a song I really liked if I couldn't even play something I needed to learn? 

Practicing and constant practice was necessary to develop the skill and talent of playing music. Once I mastered enough songs and skills to understand music, I was able to pick up on other songs and now, playing piano is only fun fun fun! Actually I can't really say it's pure fun cause I still do has to practice. But, the practice is fun now! 

Me Playing the Piano

I love to play piano. It's a lifeline. A weakness. A love of mine. My pride and downfall. My hope and fear. My driving force and my distraction! Gosh! Playing the piano is everything. Almost! Hahaha! It's fills me and relieves me in so many ways unknown to most. Not to sound impolite or rude but I can't a imagine how people can live without being able to play a musical instrument. But that's prolly cause we who play are really weird people anyways. And to me, weird is unique. Not mainstream. Hey, I'm finally blogging something easy. Yay! Music! Something I don't have to think really hard about to actually motivate me to write about it either. I don't know if I am grammatically correct there but with music I couldn't be more righter! Usually I play what I am currently composing but quite often I fun myself looking back to the classics for their awesome insight. Studying the great works of the past help me develop myself and my creativity. Such composers from the baroque period all the way to the contemporary. Even before the baroque even, but mostly music during the time where the piano was played. By contemporary I don't exactly mean just what you hear on the radio but also the contemporary program composers. My favorite composition style would definitely be music from the post-romantic era. Not a very specific defined area of music history per se, but definitely an area where composers and music was able to take tonality and spread to an amplified key or just break the rules altogether and make something chaotic or in a unique dissonant way, make something extraordinarily beautiful. Music whether its classical, ethnic, pop, rock, folk, alternative, soundtrack, atonal, or whatever it might be, it all serves a purpose. All the music out there whether its something we can enjoy or not so much serves a unique purpose in a certain time or place. I guess this is my post for appreciating music and my great love for playing the piano. It is something will always be with me!