Piano

I’m learning how to play the piano now.

Actually that was one of my dreams for a long time, I think some 5 years already. And now I have it in my room and spending each day 2-3 hours trying to play.

That’s much more interesting than playing harmonica which I already mastered. Provides more ways of expression.

Max will bring me some books tomorrow so I can approach the thing from classical educational point of view. His family is packaged with musicians so I am lucky to know him

I think that’s not good I missed musical side of education when I was a child but hope I will be able to cope with it now.

At least it is a very good relaxation way, really good one.

Ruins of the music

I’ve been just listening one song and started to think about mixes. Whether mixing some original songs is good or bad thing.

From the simple consumers perspective of view it is off course good thing since it results in larger diversity of what is available for consumption. It’s the same thing as you go to a store and there are only 2 kinds of beer and on the opposite in the other store there are 22 kinds. You’ll go to that second one without a question.

But there are also other ways on how to look at this. Each song has its author and a story or even a history. Also each song has a long and sometimes hard process of Creation. The creator puts a lot of effort to produce the song. And when I see a clip in some cafe on a song that I know, and I see that it is signed not with the name of original author but with the name of some dude from the basement who just inserted few pauses into the song and added some more effects then I think this is not proper. When we consider time we’ll see that in long term all such mixes can completely change mind of people and their knowledge on who is the author.

I think there’s already some legislation existing on such subjects, just I don’t know anything about it. Would be interesting to research