The piano
The keyboard had sat at the sideboard gathering dust for roughly 6 months since I last played it.
Why had I stopped?
It wasn’t because I didn’t enjoy practise, I especially DID enjoy learning somethng new and developing my skills.
Life. Life got in the way, I didn’t make it important enough to practise, and then I didn’t get any better.
So for the new challenge I made it important again, daily practise. I read an interesting quote:
“Excellence is built on years of mundane, repetetive, focused-effort, with a willingness to learn from failure, and a love for the process”
The type of person who I am aiming to become puts that effort in, maybe not to achieve excellence but to look back at a body of work, that stands for itself and is able to say ‘I’m proud of that.’
From Very Easy to Very Hard:
Very Easy: 120 seconds of piano practise daily.
Easy: 10 mins of piano practise daily.
Moderate: 30 mins of piano practise daily.
Hard: Learn how to play ‘Rockstar’ by Da Baby
Very Hard: Learn how to read sheet music so I can play new songs.
The definition of the relative difficulty is of course highly subjective but I have set my target now and it is another vote for the person I want to become.
Sidebar:
Playing the piano in school is infinitely more satisfiying than playing the keyboard at home, the heft of the keys and the vibration from the sounds really makes it a much more enjoyable experience for me.
