learn to play Debussy's "Claire de Lune" on the piano

I’m still practicing. Boy is it hard. You have to understand, I’m not a real piano player. Though I’m a good musician I never took piano; I just picked it up as best I could on my own.

And now I’ve made it all the way through the piece (albeit very slowly). Still, this is way cool.

I found a website where I could download it for free and printed out the PDF for it (google for free sheet music Claire De Lune). And I made it all the way through 2 pages! Of course I can’t play either of those two pages well.

But I found ALL the notes and it sounds just like somebody playing two pages of Claire De Lune! Only very slowly. And lots of repeats. And with a lot of cursing. But other than that, it’s just like somebody playing Claire De Lune!

I really think this is something I can do. Sit down with it every night for half an hour and I think I could play it reasonably well in only 3 months.

cool.

I’d love to feel that way by playing it. I can already play the piano a bit. I’m a musician, just not a real piano player. I suppose I just need to find the sheet music and get on it! I’ve done that with some other pieces. I’ve learned to play one hymn really well (O Sacred Head Now Wounded) and I can play a few other classical and big band pieces pretty well.