Many of you probably know that I play guitar. I've played guitar for 4-5 years, and I enjoy doing so very much. But one thing I've never really attempted to try is to actually learn a song on piano.



Any time I've "played" a piano or keyboard I would just screw around and play little easy songs I had come to learn (Themes and stuff, nothing complicated). But today, I broke out the ol' casio keyboard (Seriously, the thing is ancient, a good 12-15 years old) and looked up the music for, Hey Jude by The Beatles, and began a musical quest.



So, that's all I've been doing this night. I've been slowly learning the chords to the song, and am honestly pleasantly surprised. One of the reasons I have never tried to learn any real song on piano is because I was always discouraged about having to play bass with my left hand and lead with my right. I simply didn't think I had the dexterity to do something like that. But it turns out that it's surprisingly easy (On this song, anyways). The hardest part of learning the song, for me, is just getting the chord switches down. All the rhythms are easy, and the chords them self aren't anything crazy. It's just switching from one to the other that has me practicing a 30 second section for 2 hours straight.



The only real drawback to all this is that playing for 4 hours has made my wrists hurt pretty bad :(