In my strenuous pursuit to learn how to play Bink’s Sake, I learned that playing the piano is not as easy as it looks. You learn how to play the G-scale and you think that you are a genius. The truth is it takes a lot of hard work just like any other craft, for the most part. Even being a person who played in the past, I found myself falling into the same traps I did as a kid. For some reason, I had the notion that my “prior experience”, no offense to my piano teacher, would give me a stupefyingly easy path to success. Or maybe it was just because I think things are going to be easy in general. Despite all my “dismay”, not knowing how to play was a good thing because this project’s requirement was for me to learn something. And I had learned so much playing this one song than I had in all my years of piano lessons. Okay, so that was a bit of …show more content…
Learning the notes A, B, C . . . can only help so much when it comes time to recognize them on a staff. For me, I had to keep counting with the memory tricks, like the pervious mentioned “Every Good Boy Does Fine” and “F-A-C-E”. But this is extremely inefficient, similar to how some children count out both simple and complex addition problems one by one.
To help me with my predicament, I studied individual notes on the staff using flashcards both on the internet (Quizlet) and the ones of made myself. It did help, but I found myself still pausing after almost every key I played, and staring intensely at the music sheet. You just can’t beat years of practice, but practicing is still very helpful.
When branching off into something new, it is always a good idea to start at the bottom and make your way up so you gain all the skills you need when it gets more advanced. The song I was playing was some “next-level” stuff, but I only had 2 weeks, not enough time to relearn the basics I lost when I decided to quit playing the piano. Stupid kid . .