{"id":2849,"date":"2011-01-16T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:41:09","slug":"two-months-til-40-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/two-months-til-40-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Two months &#039;til 40 and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After talking about it for years, I finally <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2010\/05\/23\/baby-steps-toward-learning-to-play-piano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started beginner piano lessons<\/a> last spring, in part because the approach of my 40th birthday felt like\u00a0 a good deadline.<br \/>\nI fantasized about learning a song that I&#8217;d be comfortable playing in public, maybe even hosting a big 40th birthday bash with <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2010\/08\/15\/clint-maedgen-musical-chameleon-straddles-the-line-between-tradition-and-rock-n-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Orleans Bingo Show<\/a> headlining and with me playing my 40th birthday song as a sort of boozy grown up recital.<br \/>\nToday I&#8217;m exactly two months out from my 40th birthday and realistically, I don&#8217;t see it happening. And that&#8217;s OK.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve come a long way since my first lesson: I&#8217;m learning to read music, to play scales, to keep time, to have my left and right hands do independent things. I can look at a new piece of sheet music, puzzle out what I need to do, and if I go at it slowly, I can make the song emerge from the page.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s going to be a while before I&#8217;m ready to play a song in front of people. I sometimes lose my way, or clunk the wrong note, and am still learning to recover and keep going when that happens.<br \/>\nJohn and I went to Arthur&#8217;s Tavern recently to see <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/2010\/11\/03\/i-am-grateful-for-traditional-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">traditional jazz with the Grove Street Stompers<\/a>. I watched the pianist in rapt attention as he effortlessly called over his shoulder to ask the trumpeter what key she wanted the next transition in &#8212; he could talk, play and transpose without breaking a sweat, and I&#8217;m still working on tapping my foot while I play.<br \/>\nWhen they took a break, I asked how long he&#8217;d been playing. He&#8217;d put himself through Yale playing piano &#8212; 55 years ago.<br \/>\nYes, I&#8217;d love to play like Dick Voigt, shown here with his <a href=\"http:\/\/bigapplejazzband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Apple Jazz Band<\/a>, but I&#8217;m not going to hold myself to the standard of someone who&#8217;s got quite a few decades on me.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s more important for me to celebrate my 40th birthday as part of a journey than to beat myself up about what destination I have or haven&#8217;t achieved.<br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iHG4U1uy0y0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After talking about it for years, I finally started beginner piano lessons last spring, in part because the approach of my 40th birthday felt like\u00a0 a good deadline. 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