Tony

Piano One of my talents is that i can play the piano, i played piano very good. All started when i was three years old, for my birthday, my mom and dad got me a bunch of presents. there was a big present, i open it, it was a toy piano. it was so cool, i played it so much, my mom start thinking if she would get me to piano classes. she talked with me, and i agreed with her. i hear a bunch of music, such as Three days grace, slipknot, linkin park... and like sometimes i can print the songs lirics for piano in internet to start playing it, and it sound like them. but my mom likes the classic, and romantic music, so sometimes she rather have me play romantic or classic than those songs. i start playing piano in Bansbach, in Multi-plaza. i started at the age of five. at my first class, i went to see how the class was, how they teach, and to see if i liked it. i liked it, so i told my mom i wanted to play. so that day, my mom and dad went to the piano store, at first i thought they were going to buy me a piano, but she just went to put me on classes. they put me on estrellita one, i think is the easiest class, they explain me that you go from estrellita 1 to 8. teacher come from other countries to test you. if you reach to level 5, you can be a teacher.and each one last half a year, and to go to the next grade, you have to make a test, where you sing a song, play two piano songs very well. and eveytime after the test, you get a bag full of candy, that is the best part of doing the exam. when i passed the test, my mom took me to the ice cream store and bought me ice cream, and then she bought me a gift, i bet that is because my mom was proud that i pass the test.and in between of those grades, you can make exams to be a teacher. you start from 9th exam. when you do the test, the test has to be shipped to japan to grade it, and those teachers come once a year, so when they come, everyone rush to make the exam. ive pass the 9 and 8, and pretty soon im doing 7.these exams are not like the regular ones special so i started the next week. it was pretty cool, and i got to know my classmates and the teacher, which were pretty good people. that day, my mom and dad went to the store, and this time they bought me a clavinova for me to practice. i have never played in that huge thing, so i just start pressing random keys, then my mom came, i thought she was going to yell at me, but no, she came to help my to advance on the piano, so my mom and me start playing the piano, it was pretty fun. my next class was a big improvement. Sometimes i print out songs from the internet to learn, and its pretty fun. When i started estrellita 6, when i was about to sign for it, my mom took me out, and put me on individual piano, that class was harder, and it had real pianos. there were only one teacher teaching a student, my mom says this is the only way to improve. i spend all the lessons on that class, i am still there, is not that hard once you know how to play it. its kind of frustrating because is on thursday, and i have homework, study for tests, and my batteries are all out, and i have those classes. but the cool thing is that i can relax by playing piano. i take lessons all the thurdays from 5: 20 TO 6:30, an hour full. on 2005, on may, my dad, mom, sister, and me went to china to play, meet our family, relax, but this is getting out of topic, so one day, my mom and dad took me and my sister to the instrument store, and they were seeing pianos, and to make a long story short, they bought me a real piano. it was shiny, of course, it had light shining on top of it, black, and taller than me and it was very wide, my mom told me to play a song to see if i like it, it was awesome, it sounded better than the clavinova we had. it was huge, it was one of the best things i ever received, it cost a fortune. it cost like 7000 bucks.when i bought the piano, actually when my mom and dad bought it, my mom told me that i have to take care of it, and when i was done playing the piano, i had to cover it with a special cloth my mom bought. Back in costa rica, i wonder where the piano was, next day, i had a normal school day, when i got home, the piano was there, i was very happy, they put the piano on the TV room, because it looked kind of empty. my dad install a purplish, whitish light on top of the piano, and it looks cool. that day, i played alot, it sounded way way way better than the other one. when my sister was born, she also was interest on the piano, she kept on pressing ramdom keys on the piano for no reason, i told her to stop, and she wouldnt, so i grab her hand, and like always, she cried. and my mom always came to see what happen. then my sister was about 5 years old, my mom put her in piano classes. of course it was easier, because i could teach her. she took the same process that i did. when she doesnt understand something i can teach her, and its pretty fun. when she had more experience of piano, we went to concerts more frequently. my sister learned how to play it pretty fast, she likes it, and sometimes my sister and me play together, it sounds pretty cool, i play the left hand, and my sister the right hand. we played it once on a concert, and it sounded pretty cool. i dont know when, but japan’s yamaha gave authorization to banbach to make a concert called junior original concert. is a concert that people go up to play ther invented songs. it has been pretty cool. my sister and me have been invited, and our invented songs came out pretty cool. on every christmas, they invite us to the teatro o’neil, or the teatro de ninos, because they mix up the bansbach in escazu and the one in san pedro i think so, and each group plays a different song according to their ranking. some teachers makes the song even better by playing guitar, electric guitar,drums... When the concert ends, all the teachers play a song. and then, they give us a bag of candy. thats the best part of the concert. ive participated in a lot of those, and most teachers know me. some of the concerts i play in a group, which i dont care much, but in some, i play alone, thats the scary part, you cant even make a mistake, and when you make one, everyone will notice. then after that, you get a bunch of applauses. my mom put me on piano classes because she says its going to help me when i go to college or university. also, when i am studying in university, if i need money, i can teach people how to play piano to gain $money$. im happy my mom put me on piano classes, though sometimes my mom yells at me for playing so bad, and for not practicing. playing piano is a nice experience, and by playing piano, you can express feelings.