Instruments

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Kyuu said:

When I was around 10 years old, my uncle's brother in law -an exceptionally skilled keyboardist- inspired me to play the keyboards. A few years later in one ominous day, the man was captured by an anonymous terrorist group. In the following week, his corpse was found lying in the garbage area nearby, with eyes plucked out and fingers chopped off. Heartbreaking doesn't begin to describe it.

His spirit lives on.. I am almost 30 now and still play the keyboards. Today, this hobby is one of the few things that keep me sane! But I've never been too good at it and it sometimes frustrates me how slow I improve, due in part to playing on and off, being talentless, impatient, disorganized, and self-taught (I suppose I fall into the no talent/hate myself category XD). I can't read a note and have mysterious fear to start the metronome.. so my tempo is quite awful even though I can play very fast pieces.

I also have a cheap Yamaha recorder, learned to play it quite quickly but the sound of the instrument soon got boring which caused me to lose motivation. I plan to learn flute in the future, it's one of my favorite instruments to listen to but the starting price for a good flute is pretty high. Which is why I went for a recorder for the time being.

I learned these beautiful pieces on the recorder within a week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW3QK6CTg2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46RY4PU8a8

Glad you're happy with your current abilities! Satisfaction is key to improvement.

Sounds awful man. I'm glad you were able to move on and be impacted by his inspiration