I had this idea in my head that the Suzuki method for violin involved the use of coloured strings so that children who did not yet know what a G was could know what a G-String was and so learn to play a violin. I can't however find any reference to coloured strings on this page from wikipedia about the method. Maybe I was mistaken, but anyhow what has this got to do with the piano? Well I am finding it difficult to tell which key is what. They all look about the same. Well the black ones are different, but at this stage of playing I am not yet even using those. So a sea of white that I have to examine to 'find my place' is all I see every time I start playing. So I am going to decorate the keys with small stickers - my four year old daughter can provide any I require. The symbols won't mean anything of course, but at least when I establish where I should place my hands for a piece I will see where I am. Going to give this a go anyway and see how it works.
An alternative to this would be to write the notes of each key on the key itself or at least on a sticker on the key. I may do this later, but for now I will stick with random symbols.
Oh and what happens when I am playing on another piano and don't see a bunch of grapes on middle C? I am a long way from having worrying about that right now. Nobody is going to let me near their piano.
Day 2 went well. Have moved on to trying Ode To Joy at half speed. It is not much harder and I reckon I would have gotten over 90%, but my mac decided to update itself, so end of Garage Band until it does (about an hour).
I practised some scales too. Getting the changeover when your thumb does the jump so that you can cover the 8 notes of an octave with 5 fingers is tricky, but getting a lot easier.
I definitely got my 15 minutes done today.
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