Me and the Music

So as you all know, I play the piano. I'm sort of good, I guess--what with not having lessons since I was really little and all--but I struggle with some very basic things, like trills and nine-note stretches.

As I've said before, I have little hands. Disproportionately so. I can't really go nine notes and try to play other things at the same time. Eight is perfectly okay [I would be in really bad shape if I couldn't do the whole octave thing] but nine just hurts.

My hands are also the reason I can't play the guitar. Trust me, I've tried. My fingers don't wrap around far enough to reach the strings. I know, I know, people with little hands play instruments all the time... But when it hurts to strum a single chord, is it really worth it?

So I'll stick to my piano. I'm learning three new Beethoven songs [Sonatina in F, Moonlight Sonata, and the Turkish March] and I'm finding that this whole "learning" thing gets WAY easier over time. It used to be that it took me months to master a new piece, and I would have to sit and actually count the beats. Now it's more like a few weeks, and the rhythm comes more naturally.

Still, I'll never be pro, and I'll never write my own music. I just don't have that kind of musical ability. I can write the words to songs from dawn until dusk, but don't ask me to put a tune to it...

Back to the bottle drive [it's for my bro's DI team... I disappeared for a few minutes...].