By ET

I started to practice piano on July 10th.  The fact that I’m spending some time to learn it is not coincidental.  A few things can be traced as the root of this newly established interest.

In terms of timing, I have worked very hard for the marketing science conference, and when I came back from Singapore, I spent a whole week working on Bayesian Statistics to prepare for making some progress on that project.  Then I felt very tired, as I spent on-average 15 hours a day to read the books/papers and to program.  Between then and my two big trips to Beijing/Shanghai and Boston, I have about one week.  For this one week, I just want to find something for me to relax.  And just about the right time, the piano for xuanxuan has arrived.

In terms of location, there is nothing more convenient to have a piano in your house.

When I was visiting Jill and Gordon in Chicago, we had a lot of fun singing with Gordon playing the guitar.  Jill is a good pianist, she started piano when she was young, and, of course, was taught to learn classic music.  And Gordon mentioned that it was not hard at all to learn to play the chords on piano and use a guitar fake book to accompany singing.  Since we were buying the piano for xuanxuan, I thought maybe I can learn to sing songs on piano.  

The first thing I learned on piano is the prelude part of “Right Here Waiting”.  Then I learned the whole thing of “Everything I Do, I Do it for You”.  It’s really amazing that these only took me one day to figure out.  Of course, I use very crude ways to play them: I play the melody on the right hand, but once I have the chords added on the left hand, they became beautiful music. 

Then I had some idea, maybe I should learn to play piano, not so ad hoc as I was doing then, but really learn to play well.  This starts my journey of figuring out how to learn piano as fast as possible.

By ET This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am and is filed under Art, General, Life, Music, Play. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.