About 5 years ago (I think) I bought this keyboard for $50. Why did I buy it? Did I know how to play the piano?... NO! I had never played a piano in my life—other than the piano apps you download from the Play Store. I don’t know why, but this piano seemed super cheap to me back then, so I bought it. It’s a pretty old model, but it works perfectly. The thing is, we hardly used it at all when I bought it. The one who played with it the most was my son—I remember he was really little back then and didn’t even understand what he was doing. One day, I just decided to put the piano away and never took it out again—until today, when I saw it again and said… “Let’s take it out and see what happens.” It was covered in dust, so I cleaned it really well before using it. My son was excited (I don’t know if he even remembers that this piano existed).
This piano is huge and heavy; it has a pedal and various sound effects—it’s awesome… My son and I decided to start learning together, and it was a lot of fun. I looked up information online to help me figure out where to start, and that’s how I found several videos that showed the keys labeled with letters and colors. I tried to recreate that to play songs. My son wanted to play Backrooms melodies, and luckily we found videos of those songs.
It wasn't easy at all to figure out the order of the keys we had to press to create the song—it was difficult, troublesome, and confusing—but once you start putting the notes together, you get really excited; you're recreating a song without knowing absolutely anything about music—it's fantastic.
After several failed attempts by both my son and me, we decided to keep things simple, and I realized that we could both play and work as a team—I’d handle the keys on the left and my son would handle the keys on the right. We played the YouTube videos at a very slow speed and pressed the keys to create the music. Once we’d practiced that, we’d try it at normal speed, but we’d get really confused, hahaha—it’s super hard to press multiple keys at the same time; you need dexterity, agility, and really flexible hands, hahaha.
Basically, we spent almost the whole day practicing, and we made a little progress, but we need to develop more skill. Today I realized that my son has a good ear and a good memory for this, since he would sometimes replicate a note just by listening to it and trying out the keys. I would love for him to develop a passion for music and learn to play the piano like a true professional.