ive been watching (thanks GMA 7!) and reading (thanks onemanga.com!) Nodame Cantabile since monday so i wasn't able to post entries. :P haha. of all the the foreign series ive seen, this one is very close to my heart. :) watching and reading NC brings back good old memories of me going to piano school every weekend.
i started playing the piano when i was 7.
i attended formal piano lessons at Casa Musica de Dasmarinas. i was such a horrible piano student then. di ako nagppractice at lalong di ako nakikinig sa mga theories. :P haha! my teacher cried because i cant seem to absorb every note,rythm and rest. mom warned me about this pero wala e :P at age of 7 i treated piano lessons as a game. no seriousness involved. just play. my happy-go-lucky attitude went on and on and on so my teached finally rejected me in his class. i was a dropout. fortunately, the owner of the piano school (who happens to be a teacher also) accepted me as her student. she was not strict pero sakanya ako tumino. :P haha. i came to appreciate music under her tutelage.
aacckkk!!! the mushroom hair!! :O
she taught me not only the basics of piano but the values a pianist should possess as well. and it was because of her patience that i got the chance to play at the annual St. Scholastica's Music Festival (bigtime event to para sa mga amateur pianists). if my memory serves right, i played Sonatina in D by Chopin and Sonate by Beehoven. :)
a lot of opportunities came in after that music festival but i quit piano school when i was 15. it's not just that i want to but i had to. i can't seem to juggle academics, extra-curricular and piano school so after 8 years of good music, i finally reached a double bar.
but just like in sonata, a double bar is not always the end. there's still 2nd movement. :)
i want to play piano again. my fingers maybe stiff already but my passion to produce good music is still burning 5 years after quitting. i want to enroll again in a piano school or if i have the money and the guts (haha) ill enter a conservatory. i am itching to hit right notes again and meet my good old friends Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. i know that i have to start from scratch and my progress could be as slow as playing ritardando but ill keep up.
i believe that it is not too late to go back. music is for everyone--young and young at heart.
:)
*when i was in piano school, i admire ate alyssa bautista. she's a good pianist. i was surprised when i saw her at DLSUD. :) HF din ata siya. :)
i started playing the piano when i was 7.
i attended formal piano lessons at Casa Musica de Dasmarinas. i was such a horrible piano student then. di ako nagppractice at lalong di ako nakikinig sa mga theories. :P haha! my teacher cried because i cant seem to absorb every note,rythm and rest. mom warned me about this pero wala e :P at age of 7 i treated piano lessons as a game. no seriousness involved. just play. my happy-go-lucky attitude went on and on and on so my teached finally rejected me in his class. i was a dropout. fortunately, the owner of the piano school (who happens to be a teacher also) accepted me as her student. she was not strict pero sakanya ako tumino. :P haha. i came to appreciate music under her tutelage.
aacckkk!!! the mushroom hair!! :O
a lot of opportunities came in after that music festival but i quit piano school when i was 15. it's not just that i want to but i had to. i can't seem to juggle academics, extra-curricular and piano school so after 8 years of good music, i finally reached a double bar.
but just like in sonata, a double bar is not always the end. there's still 2nd movement. :)
i want to play piano again. my fingers maybe stiff already but my passion to produce good music is still burning 5 years after quitting. i want to enroll again in a piano school or if i have the money and the guts (haha) ill enter a conservatory. i am itching to hit right notes again and meet my good old friends Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. i know that i have to start from scratch and my progress could be as slow as playing ritardando but ill keep up.
i believe that it is not too late to go back. music is for everyone--young and young at heart.
:)
*when i was in piano school, i admire ate alyssa bautista. she's a good pianist. i was surprised when i saw her at DLSUD. :) HF din ata siya. :)
2 comments:
Pianist pala si Ate Allysa! Oo Copy Editor dati si Ate Allysa noong first year ko sa HF. Wow, continue mo yang piano playing, isa yan sa napakarami kong frustration hehe :D
sobrang galing ni ate allysa magpiano. :) idol ko siya nung nasa piano school pa kami. yup i will! :) magiipon muna ako tapos kukuha ulit ako ng formal lessons. :) try mo din kuya. :)
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