Time to browse the book that inspired this weekly feature, and today I chose this prompt:
I’ve recently taken out my wee keyboard to see if I can still play any of the easy piano music I learned WAY BACK WHEN. Turns out I can (falteringly); it’d probably be a lot easier on an actual piano. The electronic keyboard really is wee, having only 26 white keys (natural music notes) and 18 black keys (sharps and flats). For comparison, a standard piano of 88 keys has 52 white keys and 36 black keys.
Still a lot of fun though, and coincidentally, this favorite old classic my parents liked to dance to is in the music book, so I took a (very slow) run through it.
Sounds better when Ella sings it.
Where would your sentimental journey take you?
Be a Schroeder and turn that into a jazzy symphonic orchestra!
I sometimes wish that I had learned to play the piano. A friend of mine who is an excellent pianist is currently doing world cruises, playing in on-board cocktail lounges…
If you’d learned to play the piano, you might be doing the same–and thinking of your comment on another post, I hope you’d take along the fake fur and candelabra for some of those performances! =)
Ha! I’ll soon be needed a rug for my bald pate, the way things are going!