I am such a fucking idiot sometimes! Damned F sharp!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I was playing "The Shadow of Your Smile" on the piano, and these little parts were annoying the hell out of me in the left hand, and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't flowing so well. Well, the piece is in the key of G (one sharp--F), which I noticed. I was playing all my F's sharped, tooling along...Oh, wait....That one key I'm playing, an octave below middle C, that's an F, isn't it? And I'm not playing that sharp, am I? That's supposed to be sharp, inn'nt it, just like all the others?

Yeah, I thought so.

:banghead:

One miserable half-step in one teeny portion of the song makes a hell of a difference, folks.

Moral of the story: Never try to learn new piano music when you can't think straight enough to take one fucking F sharp into account. x( x( x(

[Arkham House]

1. Hmmm...that moral doesn't, perhaps...

...always have universal resonance...but when you need it, I guess the advice comes in handy...congrats, by the way, on trying to learn the piano at all. May you have better luck than I did...:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. I've been playing for a year now.

I absolutely love it. :thumbsup:

;)

:hi:

[anarch]

3. this one time I played a B # in a song instead of a C

but nobody noticed.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Pfffft....

:rofl::rofl:

Good one. :thumbsup: Don't you just love enharmonics?

[catbert836]

5. I've found the guitar is a lot easier.

I tried to learn piano a while ago, but it just didn't work out for me. Now I'm perfectly content with the guitar instead.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. I have never even touched a guitar before.

I like watching people play it, though. My private music theory/jazz teacher plays guitar to accompany me on my clarinet. It looks like a fascinating instrument, and he admits that it's probably easier than, say, piano.

But I love me my piano! :loveya:

:P

[catbert836]

7. You should try it out sometime.

Of course, it's main innovations are in rock music, but I prefer playing jazz or classical and flamenco stuff. For example, I was just practicing "Moonlight Sonata"... it sounds very interesting on guitar. I find that most of that stuff is a hell of a lot more complex and interesting than the standard 3 or 4 chord rock song.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. Oh, definitely.

Jazz is the pulse of the music world. ;)

[billyskank]

8. The key an octave below middle C is an F?

You've got a wierd piano. On ours the key an octave below middle C is a C. :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. Oh, you know what I mean!

The "F" directly below middle C. :P

:hi: