A Counting Funny
Apr 18th, 2007 by Tana
One thing I did right before our new piano was delivered was to visit the local music store and buy some music to play. Steve had mentioned that he loves the piano playing on A Charlie Brown Christmas so when I saw The Charlie Brown Collection music book, I had to buy it.
One of the songs in this book is Linus and Lucy. If you know that song, you know it has syncopated rhythm. If you know me, you know that I am blissfully unaware of a lot of popular culture; needless to say, in this case, it means I am somewhat familiar with the song, but not enough to get the syncopated rhythm without some deliberate effort.
The song is written in 4/4 time, but as I was practicing it yesterday – one hand at a time – I was counting to eight in order to make sure I got the syncopation correct. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8…
Thankfully, I have gotten past that stage with this piece. And while Ben has heard me play many other pieces without counting, every time I start playing this one, he starts counting: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8…
Apparently that’s what you do when you hear this song…
I’ve loved hearing about your new piano. I had to stop on comment today because I love the Linus and Lucy song. So fun to play.