Piano

I recently started learning piano. It's only been a month. I'm not very good, but I am improving. I'm enjoying it because employs all parts of my mind. I have to think every time I change chords. I have to think whenever I play a scale. Piano stretches the mind. Piano is also good therapy. I can play piano for hours at a time and have no worries. It gives me something to pour myself into, and allows me to learn and recognize new patterns and understand music more. It feeds a hunger within me to be artistic. Piano ultimately calms the heart and mind, and it is an amazing feeling when it does. The wonderful thing about piano is that even simple chords, played with a simple rhythm can be made into something beautiful. Piano makes no ultimatum; if one note is rejected, another can be played. Piano can take notes that were formerly black and white for me and turn them into something colorful, or give them new feeling. Piano can set a mood, too. Go watch a movie with a sad part accompanied by a song in the background. Now watch it again without. Music makes emotion, and piano does it ten times as well as the other instruments. Sometimes it is as if the piano has a mind of its own, knowing when to play the right notes to make the perfect moment.