09-25-2008, 02:38 AM
*fails hardcore*
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_____“Well, sometimes when you're playing a song, it doesn't sound right if you go up a full pitch to the next note… a sharp is like a half-step between. Here, listen,” she said, hitting one note and then hitting the octave higher to first show their difference. Then she went back to the first note and pushed the key, this time moving on to hit the black key in the middle before the next white one, expressing the difference and the carried sound easily. “See? It fits between those two notes, it stands out, so it's sharp.” Truthfully, she wished she could have better explained the finer workings of the piano to her niece, but she thought that even what little she knew and could share would inspire her all the same. Perhaps the mansion would ring with music one day; talent ran deep in the de le Poer veins that they shared one way or another, as well as the Lykoi's.
_____“Well, sometimes when you're playing a song, it doesn't sound right if you go up a full pitch to the next note… a sharp is like a half-step between. Here, listen,” she said, hitting one note and then hitting the octave higher to first show their difference. Then she went back to the first note and pushed the key, this time moving on to hit the black key in the middle before the next white one, expressing the difference and the carried sound easily. “See? It fits between those two notes, it stands out, so it's sharp.” Truthfully, she wished she could have better explained the finer workings of the piano to her niece, but she thought that even what little she knew and could share would inspire her all the same. Perhaps the mansion would ring with music one day; talent ran deep in the de le Poer veins that they shared one way or another, as well as the Lykoi's.