Back to School 18 August 2011

Summer Holidays are over - can you believe it.

I went on a sailing course and completed my Level 2B Sailing.  I sailed in a Pico which was cool.  The weather was not that nice but we sailed anyway.

I also went on a windsurfing course.  One of the days we did theory as the weather was too bad to be out.  The other days it was quite bad as well but we windsurfed anyway.

We did the beginners windsurfing and it was really fun but you get pulled over by the wind and get wet a lot.  I managed to master windsurfing in one direction and then turning round and sailing back.  It was good and the instructors were really helpful and friendly.

We spent quite a lot of time at the beach, having BBQ's and went for a couple of nice horse rides.

We also attended the Feis which is a weeks music tuition and there was a local music festival.

Suddenly its back to school!

Music: Keyboard - Ode to Joy

This is a really excellent website. I am busy learning this tune on my keyboard and it helped me a lot. It shows the sheet music, the section of keyboard with option of showing the note names. You can play the tune and watch the sheet music. The individual notes flash as they play. Its brilliant¬

http://www.musictechteacher.com/flash_piano_lesson_ode_to_joy.htm

An interesting thing is that my keyboard has a facility that 'teaches' one how to play a few tunes but the keyboard was showing the tune in E and the link shows the tune in B.

It sounds better in B, really but wonder if the keyboard is showing the tune wrong or what?

So, here is me playing 'Ode to Joy' on my keyboard for a handful of tries. Don't expect much because I just started and I have not practiced it - just, just learnt to play it about 5 minutes ago. I'll do a better version later and some of the others I have been learning.

Keyboard: The Climb

I was learning this song on my keyboard this evening. Its so cool!

If you want to get the sheet music for this go to: http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0073289