Music is my passion!

As the title states, music is indeed my passion. This post will tell readers a little bit of myself and the liking for the piano.

Since I was seven, I started learning the piano. I did not really enjoy it that much initially and thought of quiting learning somewhere in the earlier grades. But I hung in there mostly due to my extremely supportive and kind teacher who never once beat my fingers and such like that, and also because I was doing pretty well. For grades one and two, I managed to attain distinctions and then went on to skip grade three from my teachers recomendation. However, it wasn't always smooth sailing. My teacher left the music school around my grade five year and I had to adapt to a new teacher, who took sick leave every other week. This had an adverse effect on myself and I wasn't progressing very much.

This, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, for one of the relief teachers, I noticed was exceptionally good at teaching and tallented. So I requested to be transferred to her tutorship and got it!

It turned out that she was a new teacher who came from Malaysia and just a few years back got into the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music! Wow! She emerged with a first class honours. Even though she was offered to do her masters, she declined it as she was eager to enter the real world and teach to earn some money. I think she was also eager to get married! Haha!

Still, when I was fifteen years old, I think, and doing my grade seven, I suddenly found piano a great chore and lost almost all my interest. Practising became a burden and I almost gave up.

I ended up getting a merit for my grade seven examinations. Not bad really, considering my attitude.

Something inspired me then, I cannot recall what, and I found new love for the instrument. Hence, I started putting in a lot of effort and picked up songs beyond my grade such as Beethoven's Moonlight and Appasionata Sonata and Chopin's Ballade in G minor. And just this year, I am eighteen now, I got my DipABRSM, a diploma for pianoforte performances. I would have continued and persue my LRSM, a higher diploma, but too bad I have to enter the army soon; the twenty-sixth of January to be more precise.

So that is my voyage of learning piano. I hope this gives some of you out there support in never giving up whatever you want to achieve.

Before I end, I will want to say that my love for music stops only at classical. I in no way advocate pop, rock and what not. On the contrary, I find such music distasteful and not really music at all.

So good day and I will be posting another post soon and of course my promised picture! Cheers!