tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post3888024384964143077..comments2024-03-11T00:26:35.303-07:00Comments on The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis: fingernails and forcing your kid to play the pianoAlexisARhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-18480755555716210132015-08-05T04:42:31.214-07:002015-08-05T04:42:31.214-07:00it's too bad you didn't develop the keyboa...it's too bad you didn't develop the keyboard skill your mom has, but those few years of lessons may have given you a significant visual connection to what you're hearing with both the printed notes and with the notes you hear versus what is being played on a keyboard, both of which are forms of theory and in practice. And if it brought you to singing earlier than you might have otherwsie fundnit, that alone is a benefit from yu having taken lessons.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-54867398528868440362014-08-05T01:17:24.876-07:002014-08-05T01:17:24.876-07:00I took piano lessons for a couple of years when I ...I took piano lessons for a couple of years when I was very young. I can't really play now, though that was where I found out I have a fantastic ear. I am definitely a singer rather than a player, though I wish I had stuck with lessons so I could play like my mom does.knottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10127277724751832329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-70173431731955331132014-08-04T11:44:05.601-07:002014-08-04T11:44:05.601-07:00Mormons force people -- usually young people -- to...Mormons force people -- usually young people -- to play in public far before they're comfortsble doing so, and often even if the proposed musician himself or herself would have the gumption to reject the calling, parents wouldn't allow it. And again, in addition to the dirge-like tempos, often it's mainly the right hand playing because the person lacks the skill to play with both, , further perpetuating the demise of learning to play with both hands.AlexisARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797016673203467911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6485729541580426717.post-43384587983841639162014-08-03T15:27:45.492-07:002014-08-03T15:27:45.492-07:00Sympathy for being still housebound. It drove me c...Sympathy for being still housebound. It drove me crazy when I was recently. So much so that I returned to work too early but I would never confess that to anyone.<br /><br />You succinctly outlined my piano struggles. My teacher wrote the names of the notes over the music,I had three or four pieces to prepare for exams that I learnt by rote. I have a steel-trap memory so never developed facility reading music.Then came the horrors of being pushed to play for Mormon services when I could only manage the melody line with errors and at dirge like speed.you've experienced that and blogged about it!!! I think that may have been one factor in my delights in exiting the horrors of Mormonism.OzDocnoreply@blogger.com