Stiffened fingers
Stiffened fingers
WOW, I finally got the music scores for Pachabel's Canon in D - thanks to one of my student who knew that this is one of my favourite, favourite, favourite piece =)
Well, I wasted no time getting to the piano and learning as much as I could, definitely. The piece was relatively manageable although the score was 5 page long - well, at least the entire piece contains no black keys (aka sharps and flats).
The beginning of the piece was fairly easy too ... until it comes to the part where it becomes double time and your fingers literally need to move in such a fast motion. WOW, that was what got me - which makes me realized my fingers had kind of "stiffened" =(
Playing classical pieces and playing contemporary music is just so different - in contemporary music (or what we usually play for church worship services, etc) just playing chords or fill-ins will kind of suffice, but classical pieces are different - it requires you to play note for note, and sometimes the composers are so inspired to write the notes in such super fast timing, or scale-like kind of movement (aka moving up and down the scales) that it really test the flexibility of your fingers!!
The entire experience reminded me about how learning an instrument and constantly practicing for it is similar to our intake of the Word of God. If we stop feeding on the Word or we stop doing what God's Word says, then after a while, we will become hardened in our hearts - just like how I felt my fingers "stiffened" because I had stopped playing classical pieces for years!
May we be reminded to always feed on the Living Word and put what we hear into practice as the Lord exhorts us in James 1:22-25 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does."
Well, I'm still practicing this favorite piece - I'm sure I will be able to play the entire piece one of these days (hey, I'm more than half-way through =) and my "stiffened" fingers will once again become flexible on the keyboard again =)
WOW, I finally got the music scores for Pachabel's Canon in D - thanks to one of my student who knew that this is one of my favourite, favourite, favourite piece =)
Well, I wasted no time getting to the piano and learning as much as I could, definitely. The piece was relatively manageable although the score was 5 page long - well, at least the entire piece contains no black keys (aka sharps and flats).
The beginning of the piece was fairly easy too ... until it comes to the part where it becomes double time and your fingers literally need to move in such a fast motion. WOW, that was what got me - which makes me realized my fingers had kind of "stiffened" =(
Playing classical pieces and playing contemporary music is just so different - in contemporary music (or what we usually play for church worship services, etc) just playing chords or fill-ins will kind of suffice, but classical pieces are different - it requires you to play note for note, and sometimes the composers are so inspired to write the notes in such super fast timing, or scale-like kind of movement (aka moving up and down the scales) that it really test the flexibility of your fingers!!
The entire experience reminded me about how learning an instrument and constantly practicing for it is similar to our intake of the Word of God. If we stop feeding on the Word or we stop doing what God's Word says, then after a while, we will become hardened in our hearts - just like how I felt my fingers "stiffened" because I had stopped playing classical pieces for years!
May we be reminded to always feed on the Living Word and put what we hear into practice as the Lord exhorts us in James 1:22-25 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does."
Well, I'm still practicing this favorite piece - I'm sure I will be able to play the entire piece one of these days (hey, I'm more than half-way through =) and my "stiffened" fingers will once again become flexible on the keyboard again =)
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