I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I played piano, I learned a lot about music.
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.
I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.
I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.