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21 Jul

It’s Funny How Technology Helps Musical Kids

I’m one of those lucky fellas that’s at the age where he gets to live with three teenager daughters.  Yep, that’s right 3 of them, and they all take or have taken piano lessons at one time or another.  We let the oldest stop once she reached high school, since we figured she’d have her hands full with all the school work.  It turned out to be a pretty good decision, as she now has a job and sport commitments that there was no way she could have fit in with piano lessons as well.  Her two younger sisters still take lessons, and for some reason it seems to be more of an exercise to get them to stick with it.  Must be something about an older child just doing what she’s told.

Anyway, what’s kind of cool now, is to see the older one still sit down at the piano and play just for the fun of it.  It did seem a waste to let all the talent go to waste, and it’s cool when kids take it upon themselves to use one of those hard learned and expensive skills.  Last summer she found some free sheet music online, and started teaching herself some of the popular pop music she’s into these days.  The first piece she learned was “Hey Delila”, and then she learned one of the songs from the Twilight Movies.  It was my favorite piece actually.  She even learned one of my favorites, as she was looking for suggestions.  That 500 miles song by Venessa Carlton was one I suggested.
Anchor “Free Sheet Music”

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28 Jun

Ode to the Videocasette Recorder

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