I feel like I’ve graduated to a new level recently. I figured out a couple of the major scales on my own! It’s great how when you’re learning something new you go from feeling like a bewildered fawn in the forest to having a bit of confidence that you’re things are actually starting to make sense.

I’ve been getting pretty proficient at a lot of my majors, so every few days I pester Sara to teach me something new to practice. She’s been busy designing up a storm for her portfolio lately, so I don’t try to interrupt her too much while she’s in The Zone™. One of the nice, approachable things about learning the piano is that the keys are pretty logical. They go in a rather unsurprisingly alphabetic order C-D-E-F-G-A-B, C-D-E-F… so it’s easy to find which key I have to start on to begin a scale.

While waiting for her to teach me one of the keys I didn’t yet know, I said screw it let me try to figure it out. I started cautiously, but carefully, playing notes with the known starting key one by one. Nope, that didn’t sound right. Scratch that. Start again. Repeat. Eventually I’d stumble on a continuous set that sounded more appropriate. It wasn’t long before I had both B and E figured out without any help other than a confirming nod from Sara.

Next up, figure out how to do all these two handed. See you in a couple weeks!