The Piano
I love playing the piano! Over the weekend, I have been practicing a lot. I’ve been learning to play a bunch of Christmas Carols, such as Angels we Have Heard on High, Silent Night, Away in a Manger, and Joy to the World. It has been so exciting, and it has really put me in the Christmas spirit. It makes me laugh to think about how much I’ve been practicing.
When I started to take piano lessons, I loved to practice. I thought it was so cool to be able to play songs, simple as they were. Then, I started to dread practicing. I would put it off, often until the day before my lessons, and then I would have to practice for hours to make it up. It wasn’t a very good system. Usually I got the things done, but I didn’t do it in the right spirit and probably didn’t get as much out of it as I could have. I took piano for two and a half years, and then my teacher had a baby and never started up again. I decided that I was going to be done with piano. This did not turn out to be the case, though.
It’s very odd that this next part happened, but it did. As soon as I stopped taking lessons, I would practice a lot. Maybe it was just because I didn’t have to practice, but I got to choose when and how much. The “how much” part turned out being a lot more than normal. I also started to fly through my piano books. I had a book of classical pieces that I had been playing in for a year. During that time, I passed off 4 songs. Given, they were difficult, but now that I was really working on them, I could play 3 more, with ease, in a month’s time. I also began to learn the hymns very quickly. It amazes me all the things that I can play now, but when I quit, I thought would be forever out of my realm.
Why is it that not having a dead line causes us to either do much better or much worse? To contrast my story, my brother was taking during the same time as me. He never practices anymore, and it’s caused him to become worse, and now he cannot even play some of the things that used to be easy. I’m really glad that I kept working on piano. It has given me so many experiences that I would have never had, otherwise. I think it’s important for us to keep working on things, even though they don’t seem fun or easy. I believe that there are many things in our life that we may have loved originally, but started to dislike when we had to practice of work on it. Try picking those things up again, and maybe you’ll find something that you are truly good at and love!
When I started to take piano lessons, I loved to practice. I thought it was so cool to be able to play songs, simple as they were. Then, I started to dread practicing. I would put it off, often until the day before my lessons, and then I would have to practice for hours to make it up. It wasn’t a very good system. Usually I got the things done, but I didn’t do it in the right spirit and probably didn’t get as much out of it as I could have. I took piano for two and a half years, and then my teacher had a baby and never started up again. I decided that I was going to be done with piano. This did not turn out to be the case, though.
It’s very odd that this next part happened, but it did. As soon as I stopped taking lessons, I would practice a lot. Maybe it was just because I didn’t have to practice, but I got to choose when and how much. The “how much” part turned out being a lot more than normal. I also started to fly through my piano books. I had a book of classical pieces that I had been playing in for a year. During that time, I passed off 4 songs. Given, they were difficult, but now that I was really working on them, I could play 3 more, with ease, in a month’s time. I also began to learn the hymns very quickly. It amazes me all the things that I can play now, but when I quit, I thought would be forever out of my realm.
Why is it that not having a dead line causes us to either do much better or much worse? To contrast my story, my brother was taking during the same time as me. He never practices anymore, and it’s caused him to become worse, and now he cannot even play some of the things that used to be easy. I’m really glad that I kept working on piano. It has given me so many experiences that I would have never had, otherwise. I think it’s important for us to keep working on things, even though they don’t seem fun or easy. I believe that there are many things in our life that we may have loved originally, but started to dislike when we had to practice of work on it. Try picking those things up again, and maybe you’ll find something that you are truly good at and love!
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