Christian - Who? No not the religion. The pianist!

Hello hello.

My name is Christian, I live in a basement in a very cold country with people who talk weird. But you don't care about that, what you care about is thus:

I started playing around with the piano around november last year, and by that I mean playing around. A girl in my class showed another girl what the notes where, and I picked it up to. I then learned to play the melody for "colors of the wind" from pocahontas. I also evertually started to learn from the tutorials on youtube. I played maybe one or two hours every week, and five minutes here, and five mintues there. Mostly repeats, and I forgot all about the notes.

This summer when I got home, I started playing seriously. From youtube I learned how to play To Zanarkand, wich I love, alot. And I can also play Tupac - Changes.

And lastly I stumbled upon Andrews channel, and here. And after watching the lot of the new lessons Ive learned alot, and I have decided to be able to sightread before christmas.

Later this week, (possibly to andrews great horror) Im getting a stagepiano. Yamaha P140. ITs small enough to fit into where I live.

WIsh I had a grand piano.

Blah blah blah. Cant think of anything else. Hope you enjoyed reading this.

g c g a d g c #g
Love Christian

Welcome to the Forum ...

Welcome

You made me kind of curious though, about that very cold country with those weird talking people

Anyway, I hope you'll have fun on this forum

Hi =) And Welcome

The cold country is Norway.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

Hehe, cold Country Norway??

ah, guess I should have expected something like that

karax268 wrote:ah, guess I should have expected something like that

Hehe, I dont understand. Im not reacting to anything I just didnt understand what you meant hehe

Thomandy wrote:

karax268 wrote:ah, guess I should have expected something like that

Hehe, I dont understand. Im not reacting to anything I just didnt understand what you meant hehe

I meant that I should have expected that a cold country should be a northern country

Hey! Welcome to the forum! I enjoyed reading what you posted you have a fun to read writing style! ^_^ I'm glad my videos have been able to help you out!

You're from Norway as well? Wow, it seems like quite a few people from Norway are on the forums here. Maybe one day if I take a trip to Norway i'll be all famous over there hahaha

Anyway I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post, I'm looking forward to reading more~!

Again hello to everyone new to this fabolous virtuos thread.

And hello to you Andrew. Pleasure to "talk" to you. Harr-harr.

Still waiting for my P140, so theres been no playing for a few days now.
But for when it comes - Anyone have any good ideas on where to "start"? Ill plug it in, and turn it on of course, what Im talking about is my sightread project.

I tried looking for flash cards for intervals, but didnt find any.

Im also gonna review the lessons again, and again and again. I might even take notes! Though, then I might have to invest in a notepad... Arrff..

g c g a c d g c e e e g e
Laughs
Christian

Hey Christian on the musictheory site <click here> you have a little application for interval training, consult the stickies here on the forum for more information, anyway this link will lead you directly to the interval trainer. good luck

I see you're both from Norway and learned how to play To Zanarkand...

Me too

That was the song that made me wanna learn more, I actually started out practising it
on a toy keyboard with 3 octaves, then a year later I got my 61key keyboard...

And since last year I've been practising seriously, but earlier this year I found Andrew's videos on youtube,
because I wanted to learn a faster way to play with both hands...

After that I've studied music theory alot, scales and stuff...

Right now I've been watching Pacific Blue, and most of the soundtrack is surf music, so I've done some practising on my guitar,
it's quite sad that this music style cant be played on a piano, but sometimes different genres need different instruments.

Can you play To Zanarkand on a 61key? It uses almost all 88!

I found To Zanarkand to be a great help to playing different things with both hands.

Still no piano, Im getting a 88key. Looks like next week is it. Wohooo!

VictorCS wrote:
Right now I've been watching Pacific Blue, and most of the soundtrack is surf music, so I've done some practising on my guitar,
it's quite sad that this music style cant be played on a piano, but sometimes different genres need different instruments.

Well, its possible to play it on Piano Different sound, but the feel can be created if you are good. Lots and lots of guitarmusic is welltransfered to piano by great musicians.

It goes over about 6 octaves... So I have a few deep keys I cant play on the 61key, 5 octave, but that's just a very few.
So yes, I think I'll maybe got an recording on my computer, but I never uploaded it here because I never got it right....

Let see if I can find it

My keyboard is broken, so I'm waitin on my 88key digital piano 1 and a half month left


Thomandy: Yes, everything can be playd on any instrument, but it's not the same, especially for some genres ( like trance for example ), it's all about the sound, you cant even get this surf sound with any guitar, even if you know all the technical stuff... Even my brothers guitar wont actually make that surf sound... I know it sounds stupid, since you dont need a special grand piano for songs written for the piano.... But it's all about the waves...

You dont make african music with an ordinary drumset even if you can play the beat right ^_^

VictorCS wrote:
Thomandy: Yes, everything can be playd on any instrument, but it's not the same, especially for some genres ( like trance for example ), it's all about the sound, you cant even get this surf sound with any guitar, even if you know all the technical stuff... Even my brothers guitar wont actually make that surf sound... I know it sounds stupid, since you dont need a special grand piano for songs written for the piano.... But it's all about the waves...

You dont make african music with an ordinary drumset even if you can play the beat right ^_^

Yeah, you are right on that one! I guess I missunderstoud you The piano makes other effects of course I guess that why bands don have only keyboard, or only guitars hehe

VictorCS wrote:It goes over about 6 octaves... So I have a few deep keys I cant play on the 61key, 5 octave, but that's just a very few.

Yeah,
I couldn't play a song for only 1 key more than my 5 octaves ( I have a 61Keys Keyboard )
But I have to wait a year to get a Grand Piano ( Until I finish my Studies )

About the song, should I Play it without this key or I have to forget it for a Year ??!

Depends on how much you wanna learn it, keys are actually very easy to add in if if you over look one for example... Just a bit of practicing...

Amro wrote:

VictorCS wrote:It goes over about 6 octaves... So I have a few deep keys I cant play on the 61key, 5 octave, but that's just a very few.

Yeah,
I couldn't play a song for only 1 key more than my 5 octaves ( I have a 61Keys Keyboard )
But I have to wait a year to get a Grand Piano ( Until I finish my Studies )

About the song, should I Play it without this key or I have to forget it for a Year ??!

I had to do that to one piece before I got my piano. I just added a key, that doesnt sound bad, and play with that. It was really easy to "undo" when I got my piano It was in Victors pianosolo actually

Yeah,
Actually I Love This Piece alot .. ( I'm Dying to play it )
I'll Replace the B note & Play the C ... haha ...

I Hope that this will not be noticeable
I'll Undo it after a Year If I Remebered

I'm having an answer for every Problem I Face .. ( It's a GREAT forum )

Or you skip the note.

VictorCS wrote:Or you skip the note.

Yeah !!
I Missed this ..

This is the Best thing to Do .


Thanks