You could always just learn the melody which is usually the right hand and later learn just chords to add with the left hand. It makes it a lot easier. Just a suggestion.
Oh, I did. I can still play several melodies one-handed (on piano). But I gave up trying to actually play. No patience and not enough time (back then). I gave my piano to one of my granddaughters years ago. She plays pretty well.
That was a very nice thing to do. Itās nice to have an instrument to play as a child. Good stuff. She must have been thrilled.
I can ice skate but avoid roller skating because I do fall from it on hard surfaces and could get badly injured and I know this is just an old person's excuse but it IS a valid one. I've reached the age where I want to avoid unnecessary injuries.
I completely understand this... because I wasn't a very good ice skater ..but I was a really good roller skater in the rollerina and roller Disco etc.. but much as I'm sometimes tempted it would be madness for me to do it now..I can ice skate but avoid roller skating because I do fall from it on hard surfaces and could get badly injured and I know this is just an old person's excuse but it IS a valid one. I've reached the age where I want to avoid unnecessary injuries.
When you are small your brain is like a sponge absorbing knowledge. You don't question it or think that you can't do it. Our previous neighbours were a Dutch/English couple. They had four children. The father's work had taken them to both France and Germany. Those four kids spoke their parents languages of English and Dutch, the were also fluent in French and German. Why that didn't surprise was because as a five year old, I learned Latin. I didn't question, think about or struggle, I just repeated and repeated, it was easy.
I can't back a boat to save my life. I have my husband line it up with the ramp, then I get behind the steering wheel and don't move the wheel at all, start moving backwards and the boat will jackknife and end up sideways. Every time!
I can read Gregorian that if that counts.
In college my gran bought me a recorder (musical instrument) for a Christmas gift. I wanted to take lessons but the only lessons I could get conflicted with my work schedule and my boss wouldn't let me come in a half an hour late one morning a week so I could take my recorder lessons. I should buy another recorder and take lessons now. I love recorder music. It's so soothing.
Do it Chic!I can read Gregorian that if that counts.
Do it Chic... did you know there are various types of recorders from descant to Bass. My daughter learned all of them when she was at infant school. ( I paid for her lessons ).. when she was about 7 or 8, the annual nativity play needed a David , but they didn't have a boy who could play a wind instrument, so Daughter got the part , front and centre playing her Bass Recorder.. it was almost as big as she was..I can read Gregorian that if that counts.
