Good Days
Lots has gone on in the last week. It seems that my situation is becoming a bit more stable. I hope to talk to Bro. Himes this week to firm up my employment status.
A couple of weeks before Mike died we had been to Andrea's house to work out some music. She had shown us her keyboard and how she could hook it up to her computer and print out music. She has been making a lot of arrangements and printing them out and her choir director from college is going to have them published for her. So she has been using it a lot.
One of the big reasons why having Mike for your accompanist was great was because of his abilities in transposing. He played mostly by ear but he also had the music theory down and understood why he was doing what he did. He understood chord progressions and all that it took to help him make these great transitions from one key to another. Lots of people have taken advantage of his skills in that area.
I would never have been a soloist but for those skills. I have loved every minute of it. But with his death, I am left to try to figure it out myself. It's not that I can't figure it out. I have just been too lazy. I, too, play by ear but played only in a few keys. So, therefore, I am limited by that.
I had decided that I wanted to try to get Mike a keyboard for his birthday. I thought that would have been so good because he could have used it to write out the music quickly for those who needed to have the notes. We got into situations like that many times in our trio. I looked forward to seeing his excitement as he wrote out all those songs. But, God had other plans. So, I finally made the decision that I would get the keyboard for myself and try to do some of this myself.
I got it yesterday. One of the greatest features for me is the "transpose" skill. I can still play everything in the key of C but transpose it to whatever key I want it in. I just need to figure out those neat things Mike did to get to the other keys.
So, I am spending some time working on the keyboard. There is so much to learn but this keyboard came with built in lessons and I also got a DVD that will teach me a lot. Sooooooooooo I am praying and working. Only the Lord knows what this will do for my future!!
Proverbs 16:9
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps."
A couple of weeks before Mike died we had been to Andrea's house to work out some music. She had shown us her keyboard and how she could hook it up to her computer and print out music. She has been making a lot of arrangements and printing them out and her choir director from college is going to have them published for her. So she has been using it a lot.
One of the big reasons why having Mike for your accompanist was great was because of his abilities in transposing. He played mostly by ear but he also had the music theory down and understood why he was doing what he did. He understood chord progressions and all that it took to help him make these great transitions from one key to another. Lots of people have taken advantage of his skills in that area.
I would never have been a soloist but for those skills. I have loved every minute of it. But with his death, I am left to try to figure it out myself. It's not that I can't figure it out. I have just been too lazy. I, too, play by ear but played only in a few keys. So, therefore, I am limited by that.
I had decided that I wanted to try to get Mike a keyboard for his birthday. I thought that would have been so good because he could have used it to write out the music quickly for those who needed to have the notes. We got into situations like that many times in our trio. I looked forward to seeing his excitement as he wrote out all those songs. But, God had other plans. So, I finally made the decision that I would get the keyboard for myself and try to do some of this myself.
I got it yesterday. One of the greatest features for me is the "transpose" skill. I can still play everything in the key of C but transpose it to whatever key I want it in. I just need to figure out those neat things Mike did to get to the other keys.
So, I am spending some time working on the keyboard. There is so much to learn but this keyboard came with built in lessons and I also got a DVD that will teach me a lot. Sooooooooooo I am praying and working. Only the Lord knows what this will do for my future!!
Proverbs 16:9
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps."
posted by momlinda1945 | 9:28 AM
1 Comments:
Hi, glad to see you back to this again. I sure have missed you one here. I enjoyed our talk the other night. Maybe we might need to do that more often. Only for other reason...... (you know what I mean by that)
Love ya,
Sally
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