Piano Update

I am making progress!

I still am just teaching myself -- no formal lessons yet. I acquired this set of books as well as a couple other books and am working my way through them. My musical ignorance is a problem (what does 'key of G' mean?). The internet is a little bit of help.

I might have told y'all this story before, but we had no music at all in the house when I was growing up. My father had a transistor radio which he would use to listen to baseball games on, but not music. No music at school either, not in Louisiana. There was band in high school, but I didn't play an instrument. 

In high school, I was bused to the girl's school in Jefferson Parrish, which was about an hour away. So I got to listen to the radio (played by the bus driver) for two hours a day.

When I was about fourteen, my father bought a sound system for some reason, which included a stereo and a turntable, except we had no records except the one that came with, Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits. After a while, I bought Bridge Over Troubled Waters. How did I know who Simon and Garfunkel were? I can't remember. Maybe those bus rides?

Anyway! My point here is that I grew up very nearly musically illiterate, so learning even on this very basic level is a revelation. Also, fascinating.

I'm still thinking about signing up for formal lessons.