I KNOW RIGHT? I can reach a ninth but that’s really stretching it. I’m part of the octave gang ;-;
If it makes you feel better Chopin actually had small hands. He just used a piano with narrower keys and had inhuman flexibility
I don’t watch child prodigies because they make me cry in a bad way 
but no, seriously, I avoid those videos like the plague. I’d refresh the YouTube homepage or immediately scroll if I come across one. Too many flashbacks and bad things, so, yeah.
hot cross buns is E D C (rest) | E D C (rest) | C C C C D D D D (all eighths notes) | E D C (rest)
Ooooh, I see… or hear rather XD upside of playing guitar: you get partial perfect pitch by plucking the E string frequently, so you know what E sounds like. And thanks to piano I get partial perfect pitch thanks to always pressing middle C 
lol chords? what are those
tbh my biggest issue when i played instruments is that to this day i have to count the bards for each note. i can only proficiently read middle c to b and this is coming from someone who played violin like 5 years where most of our notes where i used the a and e string a lot more than the g string
the middle c is such a lovely note 
if i have a reference i can tune a violin so i guess i did learn something
I suck at sight-reading too 
It takes me literal minutes to process one bar. Ledger lines are the worst. I have to stare at the sheet music and count. I decided to just use the landmark method to help improve my sight-reading, which it did, but the easiest piece I can sight-read is Chopin’s Prelude in E Minor Op. 28 No. 4, which is literally his easiest piece ;-; you might want to look into the landmark method if you want!
And yes, middle C is such a lovely note a very memorable one. Oh yeah, violinists and guitarists can tune their own instruments. Pianists generally can’t ;-; that’s why I prefer digitals
generally i survived by counting up from b and being like this note is one higher, this not is two lower. when i practiced violin regularly i did remember some of the ledger lines but it’s been a couple years and i have since forgotten. the only note i remember on the base cleft is middle c. lol i can’t even sight read that. meanwhile my bro can look at the sheet and be able to play 
yeah while in school orchestra the teacher often tuned one persons instrument and we’d tune ours based on that. meanwhile to tune the piano we hire a professions cuz we have no clue what’s going on in there
edit: i remember in orchestra we were playing this piece and the first few lines were all just open A (i was 2nd violin). that was fun. i remember counting there to be well over a hundred A s in that piece
This is giving me flute lesson flashbacks omg
same i think lol, and it’s always on notes they want you to hit, like ma’am please my pinky finger is gonna snap if i keep trying to smack this chord. or worse, giant chords with 5 notes so you have to igor your hands to get them all.
Chopin cheats! cheats i say!
rip 
gotta put that trauma in a box and neeeeever think about it again. i am not a medical professional don’t take my advice
oof yeah, i think i’ve lost most of bass clef but i was never that good at reading it in the first place. treble clef is easier but still, for violin i used to just guess the g string notes. is it a? is it f? maybe, maybe not. i’ll find out if i play it and it sounds messed up.
I remember trying to learn to crochet
yikes
and trying to learn to sew, I felt so clumsy
I can draw and play very basic piano, but working with small or exact things generally doesn’t go well for me at first.
Which of these is crazy, creative writing wise?
Just for funsies!!!
A. For one entire year, every single three months write 60k. For an example: The year 2022 and the first three months. Each of the three months write a novel that reaches 60k then keep it going.
B. Write an EPIC standalone novel that is 9.8k long in word count and give the story two thousand chapters.
C. Learn a fictional language like a pro, then write an entire novel in said fictional language and try to translate into your native language.
D. Write a 100,000 chapter anthology where each chapter is short yet different.
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Choose wisely!!!
I literally cannot decide, but I picked A because it sounds most unrealistic.
The B one makes me really go ugh, because that short wordcount is going to lead to an underdeveloped epic.
C is just amazing, and I’d love to see it attempted.
D… well… it’s interesting for sure. I think you’d really have to love the author to buy and read that
Lol!
This is why I omit some notes, usually the top or bottom ones. Because my hands can’t reach them all and I’d rather save my hands
HOW DARE YOU CALL MY FAVORITE COMPOSER A CHEATER lol jk jk it’s fine 
bruh, the piano wasn’t even standardized back then iirc. It wasn’t until much later did they decide to make all pianos have 88 keys and be of the same size. I forgot when exactly, but I’m pretty sure it was after Chopin died 
Hopefully. Luckily my piano club’s been giving me a lot of positive piano experiences, so the trauma’s going away 
still don’t like prodigy videos though
Sacrafice your hands to the piano hand demon
with much overconfidence! wahaha
imagine playing a piece on one piano that was written on another and discovering the note you need has vanished into thin air.
excellent 
Your go-to place for writing documents for your novel is…
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I write them in regular old NotePad on Windows 10. (♯^.^ღ)
I remember when I used to use NotePad.
That was years ago.
What do you use now?
I go back and forth from Google Docs and Word.