Personal Narrative In the spring of 2009, I gripped my piano books tightly as I tiptoed into the piano studio. I had been preparing for my first piano test for almost five months, but the butterflies in my stomach wouldn’t go away. Being only six, everything looked huge, especially the the 2 grand pianos looming in front of me. Although my piano teacher told me numerous times I was sure to pass, that fact couldn’t stop my brain from telling me how nervous it was. “Next!” I walked quickly into the next room, and handed the judge my books. After quietly sitting on the bench, I placed my fingers on the correct keys and began playing my scales. I cringed as my fingers slipped and pushed an E instead of the intended E flat. While the judge jotted
The narrator describes how his brother looks while playing the piano, “The light from the bandstand spilled just a little short of them and watching them laughing
Unfortunately, I was once again painfully reminded of my piano skills. My fingers were to playing the piano as Jeremy Lin was to being a Stanford student—which is to say a whole lot of nope and not-so-much of yes. This time, though, I was not walking away. With the help of my go-to educational source, YouTube,
When my dad completed his first college physics exam, he felt a rush of relief as he confidently placed his exam on the teacher’s desk. He celebrated his success by embarking on a weekend camping adventure with his friends. Returning to class the following Monday, his mouth dropped open in shock when he spotted a large letter “D” on his exam. “This can’t be right!” he exclaimed to himself as he frantically reviewed his answers.
My feelings toward writing aren 't good nor bad. Writing is something i have had difficulty with in my past. I have no problem brainstorming ideas on what topics to write my assignments on, even if i am given a prompt, but I do have difficulty with sitting down and planning my work. I always find myself getting stuck. So I almost never take the time out to plan out my ideas i come up with.
As an avid fan of the manipulation of language, double meanings of words have always interested me. “Brilliance” with its multifaceted denotations is my favorite word because it accurately describes the essence of who I am. In one aspect, brilliance means “exceptional talent and intelligence”. I am hard working; I achieve high grades in school and use the wisdom I gain in daily experiences. As a leader, I have to use my insightfulness often to think of quick and efficient ways to lead.
Have you ever thought you were a failure, when you exceed expectations? Have you ever succeeded in that which you felt you would fail? This verse from The Dhammapada demonstrates that it is foolish to expect yourself to be wise when you do not know you will be for certain. "The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
My history as a writer has been a bit of a struggle of slow development. From a young age I had a hard time with spelling and this is still a trouble area for me, even with the help of autocorrect. As I grew in age and as a writer my problematic area became not including enough nitty gritty details. My bad experiences that I recall would always involve the start of writing because I struggle with beginning paragraphs. Also, I tend to use the ending paragraph to just repeat myself, so overall my first and last paragraphs are usually shit.
In the story The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, the piano is shown through history and memory through generations which impacts the character's decisions . Such as causing emotions and decisions among the family and having different points of view from a family from the ancestors causing strong emotions for the family. The characters' memories of slavery and their ancestor experiences with it play a significant role in shaping their identities and decisions. For example, Bernice says, “when I play on it, I’m playing on the bones of the people who are buried in the graveyard…
I cried. “I'm not a genius! I can't play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn't go on TV for a million dollars!”’ (Tan).
The Piano man turns on his lights, which shine on Jefferies’ face to foreshadow a realization. The piano man stumbles into his studio apartment drunk. He then shoves his music off of the piano and collapses into a nearby chair. At first Jefferies laughs at the piano man. However, Jefferies soon realizes that the piano man’s actions merely animate his own feelings, causing Jefferies to cast his gaze down in shame for laughing.
Personal Narrative It all started during band. Before the bell rang everyone was supposed to have their instruments, so me, David, and Arthur assembled our trombones. When the bell rang Mr.Glover told us that the trombones to practice in the old choir room. So we went straight into the band room when we found out what songs we were to play.
It was New Year 's Eve the year of 2007, I had just turned 9 years old and little did I know my life was about to change forever. My parents took my sister and I on the Queen Mary 2, a cruise ship, to celebrate the holiday season. My family and I went to watch the musical playing at the cruise 's theater, Beatlemania, which is a musical focusing on the music of The Beatles and as a 9 year old boy I was completely unaware the impact this band had left in the world. As I began listening to the music all of a sudden I found myself immersed in all the rhythms and harmonies. The feeling I felt listening to them play couldn 't be compared to anything in the world
My gaze penetrates the black box and wishes to create frictions of four strings, the way musicians were rendering the music during my Middle School orientation. My elective choice, a violin, upset my mom though. Italian Andrea Amati, creator of the first violin would never be imagined that roller coaster inventor Joseph Merlin introduced his invention while playing the violin. Up to middle school, an orchestra was a part of regular school time, the predicament started when I continued playing violin in the school orchestra at Troy High School.
We live in a world where everyone seeks ‘instant gratification’ and the message that is propagated is: You can have! This is why credit card debt is such an insidious thing in the modern world. Our culture has become so accustomed to using credit to purchase whatever we think we desire, that the idea of delayed gratification is almost laughable. It certainly seems outdated!
The learning process started with me making a decision of which instruments to play. The decision reflects on pathos because the decision involved me choosing between two instruments that I always wanted to play for their soft melody since I was young. I ended up choosing the piano because I already have one in the apartment. There were two ways to learn the piano; one is by viewing YouTube tutorials and the other is Virtual Piano.