As of late, I’ve finally started pursuing a hobby I’ve been meaning to start for quite some time — learning the piano. My girlfriend Sara and I have a rather interesting exchange of hobbies. She’s been wanting to go from just designing and writing websites to building some more interactive things with JavaScript and I’ve long been wanting to learn a musical instrument so we decided to exchange talents.

The piano’s always particularly stuck out to me, likely due to my fascination with keyboards of the qwerty variety. She’s been teaching me on her Roland HP 137. It’s a gorgeous, wooden studio piano her parents gave her when she was 16.

Thus far I’ve been learning a few majors in scales — C, D, F, and G. I’ve gotten somewhat decent at two handed C, but not quite good enough to do it over and over without fail. I’m not quite sure what path she’s going to take me down next but I know for now I want to start getting proficient at playing each of these scales two handed, and then on to the rest of the majors and minors I haven’t yet learned.

I’ll be posting updates from time to time on my progress, and just thoughts on learning music in the first place. Should be the start of a great skill in life I’ve always wanted! I can’t wait until the day I can sit down and just play a song as easy as riding a bike.