What is your unique or obscure hobby?

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[–]magnora7 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've been trying to learn what I call "improv piano" which is to be able to play songs just by hearing them and practicing enough times, or just be able to make up random music that sounds half-way decent as you go.

I really sucked at it at first, but now it's starting to actually get good. It's way more fun than reading bar-staff sheet music. The other day I figured out how to play "Chariots of Fire" in about 25 minutes just by listening to it on repeat and futzing around with the keys until I could figure out all the patterns. I don't think I'll try to play piano with sheet music ever again, tbh

[–]xynixia 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Being able to play by hearing is so much fun! Not to brag or anything, but I was fortunate enough to go to piano lessons as a kid, so I can (almost) instantly know how to play a song just by hearing it once. Now I'm trying to learn how to read sheet music since I really suck at it lol.

Don't give up practicing my dude. I assure you it is very nice being able to improv on the fly, especially when you're playing with other friends who could play music too.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's awesome. I took 7 years of piano lessons too. I can read bar-staff sheet music, but I've always found it super tedious and boring.

Then I learned to play guitar on my own, and learned the chords-based tablature way of describing music, and then I realized I could apply that to piano. Then it was off to the races