I have been playing the piano for the past five years. I first learnt of my gift when I was over my aunties and uncle’s house on the new years eve of 2002. I heard a friend of mine playing the James bond theme tune on the piano and I thought it sounded pretty cool. I was determined to figure it out. So when I was at their house I played o the piano and tried to figure out the tune. My uncles sister said: “he’s a pretty good little player isn’t he?” My Nan replied: yes he is, but I have never heard him play like that before!”. “You have got yourself a nice little gift there, David” said my Nan. I was half way through figuring out the whole tune. I played a bit too high and my Mum said: “try going down a bit lower down, Dave”. I went down a bit lower on the keys and it worked and the part fitted in really well!. It took me an hour in all to figure out the whole melody. Now for the chords; “Keep the bottom note A” I kept saying to myself “the other notes are E, F and F Sharp” I kept saying in my head over and over. It was hard to put the melody and the chords together because when you are new to piano it is hard to not get distracted by your other hand. After about an hour I got it. I played the song to the rest of the family that night and they were all absolutely amazed. Over the next few days I played piano a lot at school and at home. My grandma sent me her old keyboard so I could practice on it. Due to me being gifted I could pick up simple tunes fairly easily. I decided I wanted to play the blues on piano. I got into it and I was mad about blues music. I made up a couple of little blues tunes and they sounded pretty good. My uncle had a little thing called “Cubase” on his computer. We decided to make a blues tune together. I recorded the baseline first and then I recorded a melody. I couldn’t do them both at the same time because I didn’t have the skills yet. People had started to realize my skills. One lad said: “whoa! Do you have lessons?” I said no and he said: “you should, man you’re good!”. I thought on it and decided to have lessons. My first music teacher was called Malcolm Aldridge. I told him I wanted to learn about blues music. He showed me some boogie woogie stuff and I really liked it. I was raring to go and be able to play blues like a champion. Within a few weeks I was able to play basic melodies alongside the basic twelve bar blues baseline. This was all very encouraging for me and it fueled my determination to play the blues. Over the next year I began to play the blues quite well now. My other music teacher had left and I was awaiting a new one. My class music teacher had left too. It was 2005 by now and my GCSE’s were nearing. At the start of the year of 2006 we received a new teacher and a new music lesson teacher and his name was Tim Spencer. I had received a game called final fantasy 10 and I really liked the music from it. My new teacher had gave me a piece to do for my solo composition (solo composition is where you play a song which is not your own, It’s like a cover). The song he gave me was a song by a composer called Erik Satie. It was called the trios Gymnopodies. I learned to play the start of it and it seemed a piece to play. I bought the manuscript of it myself from the music shop in Earlsdon. There was also another song that I wanted to play for my solo composition and was a song from final fantasy 10 called “to zanarkand”. I had made a friend called Andrew Moore. He played piano too and he was pretty good. He played the final fantasy songs too. He was going to do the to zanarkand tune at first, but he changed his mind. At my music lessons I learned the tune and I liked it. We were starting to do our ternary pieces by now (a ternary piece is a three section piece where a song starts on the A section then goes onto the B section and then ends on the A section). We had to write it down in our books and I found that extremely difficult as me and my class didn’t get taught any theory because our other teacher left us in the lurch. Our new teacher, Mr Evans had to teach everything from scratch. It was a very difficult time over the next few weeks. We had to learn everything in such a small amount of time. I went to my uncles to learn my solo composition. It was very difficult at first, but it got easier over the weeks. My uncle said “damn it, Dave! This is a very hard tune isn’t it?. I thought it was very hard, but we got around it. I learned it even more at school and I got it in the end, But I had to choose from that and the other song that I got given. I went over my uncles again and I had to learn the Gymnopodies song. I got it learned in about a day. The time for recording our pieces was almost upon me and my class at school. I practiced gymnopodies a lot in the days approaching the recording. The day to record finally came. I got in the booth and I played my piece. It sounded good, but my teacher listened to the playback and he said that it was wrong. I was most disappointed. Over the next few weeks I was wanting to change my solo composition to the to zanarkand song, but I was too afraid to ask my teacher if I could do it in instead of the one he gave me to do. Eventually I plucked up the courage to ask him, and I did, and he agreed! I was most relieved and happy. I learned the song. I came in on the Easter holidays and got it recorded and it sounded great. I then had to record my ternary piece, but I had not got it all done. I had to write the score about it and write about my other pieces. I wrote a bit about my ternary piece and then I wrote about my solo piece and why I wanted to play it. When recording my ternary piece, my teacher noticed that I was having trouble with it. H e came up to me and said: “David, do you want me to do the last bit for you?” And I said with relief “yes!’ I went off home and he got it recorded. For the next few weeks I revised for my exam that was fast approaching. I went to the exam in July and went to all my other exams in July, august and June. When they were all done, I eagerly awaited my results. I waited for weeks and weeks until, finally I got them in September of 2006. I got e’s, f’s and g’s for all of my exams except for one. I got a c for yes you guessed it, music! My only good grade was for music. I went to my college interview in September and I got in. Two weeks later, my course at the city college Coventry tile hill center started!. The BTEC First diploma in popular music it is called. I have made new friends and met new people. I have learned about the industry side of the music business. I have learned how to use cubase and I have been laying in bands and recording other bands while they have been playing in the recording studio. Over the recent weeks I have done some incredible things and who knows what the future hold for me and my musical talents.
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