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The Piano

There is a piano in my office.
It's a huge one, and that's actually my sister's.
She left this piano when she moved to Tokyo.
She does not have enough space to put it in her place, so that's why it's here in Miyako.

Well, it's taking space here too, so I was thinking to get rid of it somehow.
I would say to her that piano just walked away when I forgot to lock the door when she find it.
Ah, maybe not.  I can picture myself with my eyes black.

After while, I started thinking "hey, what if I start learning how to play piano?"
So, that is how I started studying how to play piano.

However, I do not know how to read the music (even though I have been playing violin for years,) so I was looking for how to play piano improvisation.  
That way, I do not have to be able to read music, I can express what comes into my mind instantly, and I do not need to practice the same music over and over.
Yes, that's the way, uh-huh, uh-huh. I like it.

So, I started studying how to do improvisation over the internet.
What I found was various kinds of piano chords, chords progress, and what note can go with those chords and what cannot as a melody.
Now, I am composing some music.
It's fun, but it's difficult too.

Actually, I have been stuck on this composing part for days and now I am wonder whatever happened to my piano improvisation.

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