#keyboard playing

[octav4rium]

This is more inspired by the 90s sound a bit.

I tried lol

I mostly stay on the low notes. But I get to the high notes. Some times.

@logicalistlee

[sugirandom]

Just me ranting about playing the piano/keyboard it's only under a read more because it's long and I make a mild mention of disability i guess which i don't think is triggering but hard to know for sure.

So yeah, for a little while off and on I've been trying to play the piano. We bought an Electronic keyboard last December and I still can't really read notes very well or do anything too formal yet my nerdy self is still trying to learn video game music. (To be fair I'm also trying to learn Ode To Joy, what seems to be a typical beginner lesson song lols and some Abba music)

So I've been using some tutorials on Youtube. Before doing any kind of formal learning I used to be able to play the first few notes (basically the ocarina part) of Song of Healing so that's where I started and I'm able to play most of the main melody of the full version, literally can't figure out the last 10 notes or so? And no accompaniment or left-hand parts yet... I have some trouble with that because of my hand-eye coordination issues, it's good for me to do things like this though... (basically different hemispheres of my brain interpret things at a slightly different speed)

I get bored easily doing the same thing so that's why I've tried a bunch of different things. Yesterday I started trying to play Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2. The original version, not the Brawl version which honestly shouldn't have the same title because it's a new song pretty much (and much harder than the original because it's got a fancy part at the beginning!)

I can play some of the beginning and it seems like the accompaniment for it is a bit easier than it is for Song of Healing or at the very least makes more sense to me I guess so I played a little bit of that but still have to get the timing right.

IDK, I just felt like sharing this, maybe once I get all of it or at least most of it I could record me playing Song of Healing. I probably didn't talk about it before but i've wanted to play the piano since...childhood really but so yeah, even getting a few notes of something makes me so happy.

P.S. Eiffel 65 has more songs that just Blue(Da Ba Dee) and Move your Body so please upload videos or at least sheet music of those other songs...cause I'm not an advanced player who can figure out the notes by myself thanks!

[stevefrancisworld]

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[stevefrancisworld]

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[christianmaddenuk]

Happy Birthday to Keith Emerson, who would have been 72 today. Tragically gone without understanding what he meant to us all. At his worst he was head and shoulders above the vast majority of keyboard players. At his best he was unparalleled.

[christianmaddenuk]

I can distinctly remember the moment it was decided that I was going to be a Hammond organ player. Okay, I started with a lie. I can't remember it but i can pinpoint it.

I was fifteen and had spent the evening drinking Kestrel Super Strength lagers with friends. I often used to have four of them, but this evening and ill-advised fifth can was added. I thought I was holding up pretty well but I wasn't. I woke not long after going to bed with the urge to be sick overwhelming everything else. I came out of my room and my Dad said 'Will you put some bloody clothes on?', I genuinely hadn't considered I was naked. It just wasn't the most pressing thing.

I was so sick. Over and over again. With no clothes on, hunched over the toilet. At some point I started crying, hoping I'd get a little bit of sympathy out of my parents instead of punishment of any sort. I think it worked actually.

So anyway, to get to the purpose of this tale, in the morning my Mum showed me this clip she had videotaped. She said 'This is what we showed you last night. This is what we were saying you should play. this is a Hammond Organ'. I'd been so drunk and self pitying I couldn't remember a thing about it

And this is the clip.

It would still get me, but now it’s obviously more poignant than ever.

I really didn’t know anything about Keith Emerson, old organs, progressive rock or anything. I’d had a small keyboard for a few years, I’d even played ‘King of the Road’ at Ighten Mount Bowling Club and been awarded a key ring with PARTICIPANT engraved on the back of it. I knew I wanted to probably be in a band at some point, that music was cool and it would solve all my problems. But I’d assumed I’d have to make the move to guitar or bass as that was where the real action was.

Seeing this clip changed everything though. It was obvious that this was the most amazing instrument and this guy was the most dynamic, passionate, free and generally cool musician ever. I had no idea I was preparing to forever stand in defiance of received journalistic wisdom, forever defending the most maligned branch of post war popular music within which this man was king. He just had so much energy and the instrument sounded so incredible, powerful and more aggressive than any guitar I’d ever heard and then emitting tortured screams and wails which gave it such a living soul. To me.

And so I went and bought one the day after. I’ll always keep one and I’ll always be ready to travel to the ends of the earth to hear it played properly.

So sit and watch it with naive eyes and a fifteen year old’s ears if you can, and see if you feel the same way.