Aarti got her keyboard! I
Aarti got her keyboard! I am SO excited! We just spent the last two hours up in her room trying to play things. My goal this year is to gain a working knowledge of the piano. I can pick out the melody to almost anything. Okay, that's not true. Lol. If I have the melody in my head, if I know it well enough to sing the correct notes, I can pretty much translate that to the piano -- one-handed. Lol. I got Tearin' Up My Heart, God Must Have Spent, This I Promise You, I'm Not a Girl, and about half a dozen Christmas songs. But I need to move that into being able to play music. Shelley has the Celebrity piano score, which is cool and all, but I can't look at it and play it. I could look at it and sing it or look at it and play it on the violin, but I don't know what notes on the music translate into which keys on the piano. Lol. And the other thing making all of this difficult: I can only read the treble clef. Not bass clef. I played violin.... treble clef. I sang soprano... treble clef. All the notes are different on the bass clef!! So if I'm going to do this, I really need to learn those notes as well. Ha ha ha. I think I can do it. I think I can, I think I can!
Aarti said it about herself, but it's really true for me: I'm a jack of all trades, but a master of nothing. I wish I was really good at one thing. I can do a whole lot of things decently, but nothing extraordinarily well. Ya know?