Yep, I play piano! I've only played for a year, so I'm still learning. It's sort of a side instrument so I could learn more theory and stuff. Violin's my main, I've been playing since I was 6. I wish we could post audio attatchments on CB... I'd show y'all my current piece. I used to play cello for a little while, but I got overloaded with practicing, since I do my violin for an hour or more a day, plus piano, for half and hour, and yeah.

I hope you don't mind, Mei, if we have this as a music discussion thread instead of exclusively piano? 

I play cello. I used to take private lessons, but then my mom stopped paying for them. Currently, in my school orchestra, we're playing:

- the John Williams trilogy (arr. some dude w/ a first and last name beginning w/ a C)

- Alla Tchaikovsky (arr. Richard Meyer)

- Blazin' Bows (arr. ???)

- Motif (arr. Richard Meyer)

- For the Star of County Down (arr. Deborah Baker Monday)

I play piano! (And clarinet) I take lessons with one of my mom's friends, so it's not really formal or anything. All of my piano teacher's student are going to a nursing home to play for the people there in a week. Another thing -- my piano is about 75 years old. Three keys don't play and it's horribly out of tune. We've been looking for old pianos all over, but haven't found one yet. 

Songs I'm playing (Piano)-

All I Ask of You (From Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Edelwiess (From The Sound of Music) 

Morning (Edvard Greig)

For the Clarinet-

Around the World in 80 measures

Hello (Adele)

My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music)

So, that's all. Awesome to see more music nerds!

Do any of you guys do the National Piano Auditions test?

I play piano! Right now I'm working on a Llandler (Italian Waltz), and I'm playing Climb Every Mountain and Maria (that one is difficult! Really peppy—lots of triplets) from The Sound of Music. I've never done Piano Evaluations, and I don't know what "level" I'm on.  

I think you mean Ländler, Rose bud. There's a famous one, I think danced by Maria and the Captain (if I'm remembering right, I haven't seen the movie in a while) in The Sound of Music. It's a folk dance in 3/4 time which
was popular in Austria, southern Germany, German Switzerland, and Slovenia
at the end of the 18th century. Not Italian.

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I love piano! I don't go to a piano school, whatever that is. I just play. I improvise pretty well, and if the Admins can get the Webmaster to install a video/sound recording feature, I could show you. I'm level seven probably and play the following:

Invention in F Major by Bach

Dark Horse by David Lanz

Prelude to the Dance by David Lanz

Deep Blue Sea by Daniel Hill

Waltz in A minor by Chopin

Moonlight Sonata Movement One by Beethoven

Some improvisation topics for me:

Appalachian Hymn by Soon Hee Newbold

Deserts, canyons, snakes, waterfalls, etc.

The four natural elements

Being lost in time/space

I've been playing piano for about 4 years. I've come a long way, but still could improve. A nice woman from my old church comes over to my house to teach me, so I've never had a recital or evaluation.  I am currently playing Down in the Valley in the Level 3 book in a piano teaching series. I own books of sheet music for all of the Taylor Swift albums (what else would I be playing?!) that I play a song or two out of for fun sometimes. I want figure out a song I wrote called "Adventurers" on the piano sometime. I kinda wish I had a big keyboard I could fold up and carry in my pocket. I would play a lot more if I did! I don't understand why you have to pay for piano music when you can get guitar chords for free. What an outrage!

I've been playing piano since I was six. And I'm 12 now, so you do the math.

I play piano! 

I took lessons when I was . . . 8, I think? I didn't like it much, because music books have always been boring to me. I want to improvise, write my own songs, and figure out pop songs, rather than classical. So I quit shortly after, although I was told I was quite good at it. We have a piano in our house (we have every instrument. Guitar, drums, piano, old pretty much broken flute, recorders, harmonicas, maracas, etc.) so sometimes I go downstairs and play. I like figuring out songs I hear on the radio or trying Ellie's Taylor Swift books. I can read music, so it's fairly easy if I know the song to be like. "I'm playing this song. I know what the first note sounds like. Hey, look, here it is on the piano! And in the book, it says that note is a C! So that key is a C. Now I'll just go through the musical alphabet and up the music staff and I can play this song!" Usually I don't mess with the chords, but it's always nice when I can play a familiar song on an unfamiliar instrument. So piano's nice.