STRAY neuron

My oldest kid, a 2nd grader, has started taking some (group) piano classes on a trial basis.

She seems to enjoy it a lot, so I bought her a 5-octave keyboard, a stand and a seat - a $300+ investment.

As it happens, I played piano for 11 years as a kid, so this has also provided the motivation for me pick it up again.

I’ve been YouTube’ing a lot for some good riffs to play and I ran into this video - while I can’t even imagine attempting to play the piece, watching one of the greatest pianists in history, Oscar Peterson, is still a phenomenal and inspiring experience.

I tried out a new video mixing service, Animoto, tonight.

I have it to give it very high marks for ease of use, because even my first video (created during “So You Think You Can Dance” commercials) came out way better than I expected.

Here is a must-see visualation of Bach’s masterpiece

I was hoping to embed it within this post, but TinyMCE kicked my ass.