happyrat1
Destroyer of Eardrums!!!
Actually I'm a born and raised Habs fan 
Wish i could do better.
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Well, actually I can't argue with that. I root for the Canucks first, then Pens (Mario, Jagr, Malkin, Sid the Kid (is he still a kid late 30's?) , then Habs (I was super upset when Pacioretty got slammed into the stancion by Chara) so no argument from me there. Plus Corey Price is a local boy.
Leafs are the only team in Canada I have trouble cheering for :1 Imean, they can't even get the plural correct?!?
I'm confused by the Kraken because I want to root for them as another local team (I root for the Seahawks, yup) but they're still so new, the feeling's not there yet. But one of their fans saved the life of one of the Canucks staff, so there's a start.
I think I'm wandering off topic now...
Leafs are the only team in Canada I have trouble cheering for :1 Imean, they can't even get the plural correct?!?
I'm confused by the Kraken because I want to root for them as another local team (I root for the Seahawks, yup) but they're still so new, the feeling's not there yet. But one of their fans saved the life of one of the Canucks staff, so there's a start.
I think I'm wandering off topic now...
happyrat1
Destroyer of Eardrums!!!
Sorry to say, my interest in hockey waned with the onset of puberty and a mysterious obsession with the fairer sex.
Needless to say, it's been a hell of a ride
Needless to say, it's been a hell of a ride
happyrat1
Destroyer of Eardrums!!!
Actually I totally gave up on hockey as the expansion leagues started flooding the arena with money grubbing expansion teams.
Money killed hockey for good by the 80's.
Money killed hockey for good by the 80's.
Rayblewit
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I recently donated an old Yamaha PSR-32 (my practice keyboard that functions just like it did the day I purchased it back in '86 or '87) to my church for the younger kids to use and bought a Yamaha PSR-EW425 to replace it with.
I'm 58. I've noticed that my ability to play has deteriorated over time. I pulled out some of the music that I learned back when I took piano lessons during my school years and most of pieces that I played back then look daunting today.
Most of my playing is as a substitute organist when our regular organist is on vacation or unavailable to play on any given Sunday.
I'm 58. I've noticed that my ability to play has deteriorated over time. I pulled out some of the music that I learned back when I took piano lessons during my school years and most of pieces that I played back then look daunting today.
Most of my playing is as a substitute organist when our regular organist is on vacation or unavailable to play on any given Sunday.
Rayblewit
Love Music / Love Life
I am continuing on. Many well-known Protestant Church hymns are fairly easy to play. For the other required music during the Services, I have some compositions that are not too overly difficult and will work on a piano, pipe organ and keyboard.
For the general music I've had since the days of piano lessons, I'm toying with the idea to make copies of the pieces and try to simplify the compositions to make them easier to learn & adapt to something other than a piano.
Rayblewit
Love Music / Love Life
Glad to hear it.
You will only get better at your young age (14 years younger than me).
It was your age when I started playing
I am loving it now more than ever.
Good luck!
I look at the music that I was given back in the 70's and just wonder how I was able to learn some of them. Piano compositions by Handel lend themselves nicely to pipe organs.
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Rayblewit has it right!
Who SAYS a song HAS to have a Jazz, or Waltz or Blues backing style?
Rip up the 'rule book'... Burn it.
Experiment with different styles, different instruments and different tempos. Have fun exploring your keyboard.
Bottom line is YOU play for your own enjoyment. Stuff what other people think. Music snobs are a boring lot anyway! I'm almost 78, I don't care about musical correctness or rules anymore.
Just play and enjoy.
Have fun!
Who SAYS a song HAS to have a Jazz, or Waltz or Blues backing style?
Rip up the 'rule book'... Burn it.
Experiment with different styles, different instruments and different tempos. Have fun exploring your keyboard.
Bottom line is YOU play for your own enjoyment. Stuff what other people think. Music snobs are a boring lot anyway! I'm almost 78, I don't care about musical correctness or rules anymore.
Just play and enjoy.
Have fun!
Rayblewit
Love Music / Love Life
You betcha! Woo hoo! Nicely stated 100 %.
I am currently playing "all my loving" ( the beatles) using an indie jazzed up rock beat.
How dare I? Spose'd to be a romantic ballad.
Sacrilege!
I`m here , reading ! I`m just a bit slow ,like my keyboard playing.
I`m here , reading ! I`m just a bit slow ,like my keyboard playing.
I`m still at it !
Multi fingered chords in the left ,melody on the right.
I think a Genos was wasted on me , a high tech piece of gear that a pro could master.
The odd visitor who appears when i am playing ,now a SX900 Yamaha , seems to think it`s wonderful.
The problem is i tend to stick to sheet music ,i`m lost with out it.
I can have 100`s of books and will sit down sometimes and run through all of them , takes all weekend.
Then i go on you tube and see pros playing and become completely disheartened.
I just know I'll never be able to achieve that!
So, i will always play, especially in the winter months when she`s in watching soaps and i can go out into a man cave and blast out all the oldies.
I do read old post on here for advice , thanks
Multi fingered chords in the left ,melody on the right.
I think a Genos was wasted on me , a high tech piece of gear that a pro could master.
The odd visitor who appears when i am playing ,now a SX900 Yamaha , seems to think it`s wonderful.
The problem is i tend to stick to sheet music ,i`m lost with out it.
I can have 100`s of books and will sit down sometimes and run through all of them , takes all weekend.
Then i go on you tube and see pros playing and become completely disheartened.
I just know I'll never be able to achieve that!
So, i will always play, especially in the winter months when she`s in watching soaps and i can go out into a man cave and blast out all the oldies.
I do read old post on here for advice , thanks
I could not agree more.
I used to frequent another Forum as well as this one.
The guys there were self centred and stuck up their own collective asses.
Really annoying and disparaging of others in a mean and nasty way.
Bearing in mind that they are in the main a bunch of unheard of nonentities who make pocket money out of gigging.
Life is to short to waste time on them.
I do strongly advise AI fingered on the left (so that you can do single note walking basses *or* left hand chord holds) and one of the non sheetmusic learning methods (ie ones that use just a single melody score with chords on top, aka fake books or real books... ironically they mean the same thing). Genos was a 76 key Tyros 6; sx900 is essentially a slightly stripped down Tyros 5, so usage and playing are the same, just one sounds a little better (they both sound great though!)
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happyrat1
Destroyer of Eardrums!!!
My advice?
Practice, Practice, PRACTICE...
An hour a day while learning new stuff and at least 15 minutes a day to keep the fingers limber when you're at a comfortable level.
Pick up Hanon's Finger exercises for free on the internet, practice your arpeggios religiously and teach your fingers to speak music.
Experiment with different patterns in ALL key signatures, and get as feel for how they sound in life, not sitting lifeless on a printed page.
Breaking the established rules is the mother of invention and leads to joyful discoveries at the keyboard.
If you're not enjoying the music, why the hell are you playing it.
Even the verb "To Play" has fundamentally different meaning from "To Work."
It's plenty much an aphorism that no musician quits his day job, unless he's the one in 10,000 who's a big enough cement head to base his entire life on a career of superficial opinion and criticism.
Personally, If my music feeds my own soul, I'm happy to share it with like-minded individuals.
The money I've pumped into my studio, I consider well spent as it's taken me to places I'd never have imagined if I hadn't started teaching myself 30 years ago.
There are two universal languages in the universe. Music and Mathematics. Achieve fluency in either or both and you will actually learn the secret of life itself.
We're here for a good time, not a long time...
Practice, Practice, PRACTICE...
An hour a day while learning new stuff and at least 15 minutes a day to keep the fingers limber when you're at a comfortable level.
Pick up Hanon's Finger exercises for free on the internet, practice your arpeggios religiously and teach your fingers to speak music.
Experiment with different patterns in ALL key signatures, and get as feel for how they sound in life, not sitting lifeless on a printed page.
Breaking the established rules is the mother of invention and leads to joyful discoveries at the keyboard.
If you're not enjoying the music, why the hell are you playing it.
Even the verb "To Play" has fundamentally different meaning from "To Work."
It's plenty much an aphorism that no musician quits his day job, unless he's the one in 10,000 who's a big enough cement head to base his entire life on a career of superficial opinion and criticism.
Personally, If my music feeds my own soul, I'm happy to share it with like-minded individuals.
The money I've pumped into my studio, I consider well spent as it's taken me to places I'd never have imagined if I hadn't started teaching myself 30 years ago.
There are two universal languages in the universe. Music and Mathematics. Achieve fluency in either or both and you will actually learn the secret of life itself.
We're here for a good time, not a long time...
Interesting, because as someone who tutored up to 1st year university level math & physics for a decade, I can tell you that in my mind, they're literally the same thing!The money I've pumped into my studio, I consider well spent as it's taken me to places I'd never have imagined if I hadn't started teaching myself 30 years ago.
There are two universal languages in the universe. Music and Mathematics. Achieve fluency in either or both and you will actually learn the secret of life itself.
We're here for a good time, not a long time...
I pointed that out to my friend's husband, he said he was envious of the way I play so freely; he has a PHD in math (and was a university prof at UCLA or CAltech for a decade, I forgot which) and the moment I explained to him *why* music and math are the same, it clicked and he was playing piano "freely" within months. We were both in our late 40's at that point. (He has a mensa IQ (graduated high school at 15 and completed undergrad by 18), so I expected him to learn quickly, but he exceeded even my expectations!)
For anyone wondering, all equal temperment music is based on a geometric series with the 12th root of 2 (and it's crazy how 12th root of 2 to the power of 7 (2 to 7/12) is almost exactlyl 1.5... (1.4983) which correlates to 7 semitones up, which gives you a 5th interval!
Mark