So… after 10 years off, and 4 weeks with a piano, I think I’m almost there on Claude Debussy’s “Dumb Blonde”.

Ok… there are a couple of errors and a few pauses, and I need to work on the best timing and expression now… but here’s where I’m up to…

Did I mention that I love my digital piano? Well, I do. It does all sorts of things like simulating the soundboard and unplayed strings, so if you shout into it or play a drum kit near it or slam the lid, it goes chonnnngngngngggg like a real piano. Only the chonnnnngngngngnggggg sound comes out of the back not the front. And playing notes with the sustain pedal down sounds different from playing with it up because when it’s down, the strings around the played ones also vibrate. And all the pedals are analogue, so you can half-unsustain then re-sustain and it all works just right.

As a colleauge put it: “the engineers beat the bean counters for a change”.

It has lots of sounds, but apart from in the first 20 minutes, I haven’t switched away from ‘Concert Grand’. There’s no point.