Just a completely random off topic discussion :)

Do you play the piano, or perhaps on a midi keyboard? I bought a MIDI keyboard a few months ago, but didn't really use it well. Now I've swept the dust from the keyboard and started playing again, but I'm horrible! Even though it seems so easy, I can't play the simplest melody without falling out of rhythm, pressing the wrong keys, or accidentaly pressing two keys together.

Do you have a keyboard or a piano? Are you good at it?

Perhaps any tips for me to improve? How should I start?

The first time I ever sat in front of a piano was when I was dating many years ago ... waiting for my date at her house, I'd sit and pick at the keys, trying to learn the slow movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. No piano lessons; not very good. Could only sort of play that one tune.

Later in life, I got a keyboard (Korg T3). Started playing with it, then started playing easy stuff with it in church. Never really got very good at it, but knowing chords, I could at least sound like I knew something about it.

Still later, a friend of mine ask me if I would be interested in playing keyboard in a band he belonged to. I joined up with them and played with them for the next ten years.

At the very end, I was very adequate, being a source of entertainment to myself and to others.

Moral of the story: some of us take a lifetime to get merely adequate at some things, but we have fun doing them in any case.

Gee, I guess that's my story with chess as well.

Good luck, and stay with it. At least have fun.

Great story! But at least you were able to play one tune, I just randomly press keys trying to find my own amateur melody... but it's fun to do anyway from time to time. I couldn't play the keyboard for 1 hour nonstop, but it's quite entertaining to just spread it out over the day.

i'm not that great when it comes to playing the piano, i just sit there and try to play tunes that i've heard, but usually do really badly.  it doesn't really bother me though, i'm more interested in playing the clarinet

on the other hand, my little sister is cyco when it comes to playing the piano.  she has piano lessons on fridays, and when she is at home she tries to play the piano all the time.  while it is nice that she clearly enjoys playing the piano that much, it gets on everyones nerves after awhile!

I play the piano.

you can go on youtube and learn songs from there.