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Since I began my break (perhaps strike) from writing a few days ago, I have been spending lots of time learning to read music and to play ‘piano’ on my amazing 88-key keyboard I bought a few months ago. What an education! My admiration for piano players is increasing with every moment I spend engrossed in my pleasurable task!
What joy there must be in actually being able to PLAY this instrument! I can only begin to imagine what that would be like. I learned the ditty for naming the lines on the treble clef when I was in third grade – and that was IT for my musical education. So I am at the beginning.
What I was thinking about today as I begin to combine notes for some of the pieces of music I am trying to understand and play is how hard it is for me to decipher the individual sound of notes once two keys are played simultaneously. I imagine people with trained ears can pick the two separate notes out easily, but I sure can’t. What I hear is a brand new THIRD NOTE!
It made me think about feelings, and about how hard it is to decipher them when we are actually experiencing more than one of them at the same time! Then we have the equivalent of the THIRD NOTE — something new and different that vibrates our body in a way we might not be able to describe. How can we pick the feelings apart when they happen this way?
I don’t have an answer to my own question. I am having way too much fun healing my body-brain with sound at this point. I love the waltzes and the lullabies! Oh, how wonderful and amazing this is! And learning to play these notes off the page, I feel like I am touching the fingertips, the hearts and the minds of the people who had these songs come to them and who wrote them down — a direct communication like nothing I have ever experienced before.
So as I went back to the blog here to look for the verbal abuse and music related posts I found what follows here – lots! Perhaps there’s something useful among all these words — but for now, I’d rather do the music!!!
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Stop the Storm 