Canon in D

I just heard Canon in D by Michael Silverman on my Midnight Stealth station I created on Pandora.  This song is so beautiful.  OMG I want to learn to play it.  We do have a keyboard…  I wonder if I can find the sheet music for it? 

I couldn't find Michael Silverman's version for free.  I did find Conon in D by Johannes Pachelbel sheet music, for free, on www.makingmusicfun.net.

I printed the sheet music out!  Yea!  Man it's been a long time since I played piano.  I wonder if I can even play this?  There are a lot of big jumps from one note to the next.  Hmmm I better write the letters down for each note since it's been so long.

Ok, cheater notes are written on the sheet music.  See my cheater notes!

Now, where is that keyboard?

Eeew, it's all dusty and grimy!  I better clean this up first!

Ok.  Keyboard is all clean now.  Maybe I should write the letters on the keys with sharpie…  My son does play this keyboard too (9yrs old).  Maybe that would help me teach him how to play actual existing songs, so he's not just left to play what ever is in his head.  As good as he does with out knowing how to play really at all.  I'm sure he would be awesome at it if I took the time to teach him!

See my cheater keys!

Ok. Now it's time to start learning this song.  I don't think I am going to share video or sound of me practicing this song, or anything.  Well maybe as I get segments mastered.  I may however share my experiences/challenges learning this song and/or teaching my son how to play.

Bye for now.

Tommy’s Music

My son Tommy found this app called Garage Band on the I Pad the school issued him.  He started playing with it and started making his own music.  It has strings, drums, all kinds of instruments on it.  The following video is a drum song he made on it that he calls, Fire Eye 3000 Indian Song.  He also shows us a little dance to go with it and how to make a new song using the app.  Remember he is only 7 so this is pretty impressive.  I also recorded just sound of him playing with the string instruments…he does best when he thinks no one is listening.  He as even figured out how to record separate tracks and add them together as a song already.  I asked him if he learned how to do it in music class and he said, “No, I just found it and started playing with it and I like it a lot.”
You be the judge:

FYI I am not a camera man.

Sorry everybody…I was trying to make sure the sound was working because my Windows media player wouldn’t play the sound on our first video.  It was just the player though because the Real Player did just fine.  Also I did not realize that when you turn the phone and the screen adjusts that the camera does not so it does look a little funky.  Any way you live and you learn…noted for next video.
It won’t let me upload the wav file of him playing string instruments when he didn’t think I was listening.

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