I'm THIS close (you'll have to picture me making the "this close" finger symbol. LOL) to being able to play this sucker all the way through without stopping.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, one of my favorite things about piano (which really applies to any skill you work on) is how something that seems completely daunting and impossible when you first start becomes almost effortless with practice. You can actually feel the shift start to happen and it's AWESOME.
(I know this all probably sounds super dorky, but I've never been one to shy away from owning my interests loudly and proudly. 😂 )
Its just such a satisfying payoff every time I conquer a new piece. I'll never get tired of it!
My youngest son just started a new piece that was one of the first ones that really challenged me when I was a kid. I had heard a friend play it at a recital at school and went right home to find it and learn it. I had been playing things in first and second grade books at that point and THIS one... IT was in the third grade book. In my head, all the pieces in that book were crazy hard and intimidating. With time though, I figured it out and I did it. It became one of my favorite pieces to just sit down and play at any random piano I found.
It's a really fun, fast piece (which he always loves) and he was so excited to sit down and start it last night. He took right to it. He has heard me play it a LOT over the years and I joked at his lesson the other night when he picked it that my life has now come full circle. It will be especially fun to watch him climb this mountain and hopefully enjoy being able to play it all the way through as much as I did when I was his age!
I hope to post a video soon of my own mountain pictured above.... first goal, to play it at a consistent speed without stopping. Second goal, to bump up the speed little by little to get to a number I have in mind. I have two weeks! ;)
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