5/21 Blog 8: Take That, Elise!

    Believe it or not, I actually managed to learn Für Elise! After these three long weeks, I am rather proud of learning my hardest song yet by far. I definitely learned one important lesson, and that is to first try to understand the music notes being played instead of just diving right in. It would have saved me some confusion and lost time learning the wrong set of notes, at least. Well, I can't change the past but I can learn from it. It sounds a little off even though I followed the sheet music. Anyways, here is me playing it after like the tenth take 😄:

    I used what I learned from overplaying the keyboard previously and spaced out my practice sessions each day. I split them into halves so each one would be shorter. It felt so much more refreshing and I enjoyed practicing more. As a result, I learned a lot more of the song than I had the previous weeks!\

    I also am continuing to learn more parts of sheet music. Something I forgot to learn but I have seen was the curved line that sometimes connects two notes.

I found out that it is called legato. They indicate playing the notes within the curve with no gaps in a smooth fashion.

    Sadly, I do not have many blog posts left, so I have to decide what I am going to begin to learn next, whether the finished product is on this website or not. I am thinking of learning Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens. He is an artist that I have come to love over the recent couple of months. I found some sheet music of it here. This website Musescore also contains a visual piano that shows which notes are being played and for how long, which would definitely come in handy.

I commented on the blogs of Connor, Kai, and Ian.