Remember when I said I wanted to learn how to play the Phantom of the Opera overture on the piano? Well here’s some progress. I’ve got my keyboard out once again! The damn thing was sitting somewhere else for quite a long time since there was supposed to be people coming in to fix my window (it’s broken!) but they haven’t done that still and it’s pretty much been a month since it was broken (well it’s new and broken! it was freshly installed with a crack and the door jammed up). Slowly I’ve grown impatient since these people who aren’t replacing it have no idea how much of a sacrifice this is. So why is broken windows and piano linked together? My room isn’t the biggest and in order to make room for this window to be fixed and installed, I had to move things around and ultimately move my keyboard somewhere else until it was all done so I can move it back.

Anyway, long story short, I’ve given up on waiting and just opted to move the stuff (it’s a painful move) back to window fixing mode once I have a clearer idea that someone is actually going to do it, but for the now… the keyboard is BACK!

Man it’s been a long time since I’ve touched a keyboard! The keys are all dusty and my fingers are twitching to play some random chords and arpeggios. After doing some random jams, I started to look into playing the Phantom of the Opera overture. Turns out it’s A LOT harder than I had imagine it’d be. There are so many bits to play on both hands! Things you’ll not notice on a naked listen, I managed to download a midi of the track and slowly worked out the notes from that (I can’t read music, and there isn’t music for the overture (that isn’t watermarked before you ask)) so yeah, it’s back to good old listening to it and playing it by ear and memory. That’s how I learn pieces anyway. It’s surprising how many songs I have hidden inside my head. Sometimes it requires a jog of my memory but I’ve never relied on written music to play a piece, it’s the best way but I’m simply not capable of reading it for now, not to mention I’m impatient to learn (maybe this could be another todo?) So yeah. The piece is pretty hard, but that doesn’t stop me from learning it slowly. When you want to learn something so hard, you just charge onto it head first and do your best, practice does indeed make perfectomundo.