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I have got to get a more appropriate chair. January 26, 2008

Posted by Abby T in : music & concerts , trackback

As you may or may not know, I bought myself a keyboard for Christmas. This one, to be exact:

keys? check. buttons? check. all set.

It’s got keys. It’s got buttons. It’s got a plug. It’s everything I need in a keyboard, considering the fact that I took maybe a year of piano lessons when I was little and the only things I can remember how to play are a little dinky polka and “From a Wigwam”, which is from this book, which we had in our piano bench when I was little.

Anyway, I’ve had this keyboard for a few weeks now and every time I walk by it, perched on four milk crates with a cheap barstool-style chair next to it, I feel a little pang of guilt because I play it as rarely as I suspected I would when I hesitantly clicked “Confirm order” all those weeks ago. I have a learn-to-play piano book and everything, which really exists to help me learn to read music. I can read the treble clef pretty well, from choir in high school, but I have trouble with the bass clef.

But like most “Learn to Play an Instrument!!” books, the first few chapters are boring as all hell. So I was in a piano doldrums for a while.

For a while, that is, until I had a Brilliant Piano-related Insight. I checked the Googles for “mario sheet music” and BAM, I was in business.

I haven’t tackled the main theme (you know, doodoodoot, doodoot, DOOT, doooot, DOOT doot doot, doot DOOT doodoot doodooDOODOOdooDOOdoodooDOOdoot…) yet, as I’m still kind of pianotarded, but my Super Mario Bros. Underwater Theme - which, musically, is substantially simpler and easier - is coming along rather nicely:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaL4D_nT99c]

… only not at all. That’s some clip I found on YouTube. My Underwater Theme is much, much further underwater than that one. It’s about four times slower than that and much less confident, and I still can’t play the left hand part and the right hand part at the same time. But the point is, it’s motivating me to actually play the darn thing, so it’s enough for me. So far.

There are lots of cool clips up there of random people playing random bits of Mario music on random instruments. It’s worth checking out.

-@

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1. Emily - January 26, 2008

I expect a full recital in short order.