My first ever musical performance

Posted on December 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm by

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It had been a culturally inactive year. Thanks to the program I was working on at office. There was abosultely no time for extra-curriculars. To make it up, I bought this keyboard (Yamaha-I425) a month ago. Thanks to Suresh sistla. Big influencer. Kept this news under wraps till I could really play something with the keys.

When I was just laying my hands on it, my colleagues insisted that I should perform on family day, our annual day at office.  Anybody would tell you that it takes anywhere between couple of months to few years to master this keyboard. And I should be performing at a gathering like this ?  I said I can’t.

They told I should atleast play Happy Bday song. But it would be quite unfair if I do that.  So, how do you cut short and shrink the whole learning process and still play at a gathering ?
I logged on to youtube, and searched for piano videos .  Found one. I played it few hundred times, watched finger movements and imitated religiously. That’s how it finally turned out to be. Few glitches here and there, but still a decent show I guess.
A better version, recorded at home is here.  kal-ho-na-ho-mp3