Tom Austin wrote:

> Mu understanding is that music is not just pressing keys or hitting 
> something.  It is flowing from within and what your fingers or toes do 
> just is as expression of that.  Sure, you might be reading sheet music, 
> but that's like looking at words while singing a song you know.

Well yeah. It's technique and art.

For example, that organ I'm playing. The keys are seriously heavy. Can 
you see how the top set also moves when I play the button set? That's 
because there's metal strings physically linking the two. That makes the 
keys heavy as hell! >_< I'm also freezing my **** off, so I'm shivering 
(which messes up my timing) and my fingers aren't dexterous enough.

The long and short is, I'm hitting all the correct notes in the right 
order, but I'm not entirely "happy" with the performance. I know I can 
do better. I'm just frustrated I don't have that on video... :-/

> I could believe that.  I think just learning what music is, how to read 
> it and even just hum it are a great start - I can't even do that.  I've 
> 'learned' how to read sheet music at various times in my life - just 
> never used it enough to actually remember any of it.

Heh. It's 10 years since the last time I seriously tried to read music. 
I've now been learning this Toccata for so long, it's almost comming 
back to me. ;-)

Being able to read and/or write music isn't the same as being able to 
play it. I'm more concerned with being able to play it.

> Oh to be able to play something from within my head that actually made 
> people smile.....

Amen!

Most people look at this YouTube video and go "that's nice dear". 
Doesn't do justice to the 3 months I spent reaching this level...

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