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Monday night was my third piano lesson at East2West Studios. If there’s one thing I’ve learned more than anything else, it’s that a half hour can go by SO FAST! It really feels like we’re just getting started when we discover that we’ve already gone over the half-hour mark! I’m thinking about springing for the extra $20/week to upgrade to the hour long lessons.

Last week my instructor, Steven Twelker, taught me how to read chord symbol notation. It was all new to me, but within my first hour of practice, I had really gotten the hang of it! I’m supposed to practice 45 minutes a day, 4 days a week for a total of 3 hours a week... I got the 3 hours of practice in last week, but it wasn’t in such a regular manner. Late last Tuesday night, I practiced for around 2 hours! The other hour or so was split over 2 days last weekend... I mean to practice more regularly, but I admit that WoW has a tendency to pull me from practicing.

Right now I am working on five songs, three of which I had already played with before lessons. Those three are:

Op. 28, Prelude No. 7 in A - Chopin
Fur Elise - Beethoven
Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook: Minuet In G - Bach

And two which are new to me are:

Gymnopedies No. 1 - Satie
All of Me (a jazzy song, I don’t know the composer)

Steven told me yesterday that I should know about a dozen songs at this level in about 8 or so months of work. And at that point, I should be able to move up to the next level. It sounds like a plan to me!