A few weeks ago I was watching a rerun of The Mentalist and there was a blind woman playing Bach’s Prelude in C Major on the piano. So naturally, I tried to find someone playing it on the guitar and I posted it for my Saturday Bach. I made an offhand remark about learning it on the piano since it appeared to be relatively easy. Play two notes with the left hand and then three notes with the right hand twice. How hard could that be? Claudia commented that if I lived close to her she could teach it to me in a week. No way! Or, in my exact words, “Wrongo!” I was wrong.

I downloaded the sheet music from the web and I found a tutorial on YouTube. I’ve been working on it for a week-and-a-half on my own, and I can play it all the way through now so just think what Claudia could have had me do in a week. I could have really used her help with the fingering at the very end but I just worked that out about ten minutes ago.

I’ve played the piano more this past week-and-a-half than I have for the last 28 years. I guess it’s time to relearn Bach’s two Minuets in G. I also once knew how to play both of them on the guitar and I got tab for that. My BIL gave me his old classical guitar and it’s amazing how much easier classical music is to play on it.

Here is Bach’s Prelude in G Major.

If I get real ambitious, I’ll relearn The Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition. I could actually play that 28 years ago.