Great choice of song! If you ever have access to a piano, I highly recommended trying to fumble your way through Beethoven's moonlight sonata, even if you don't know how to play piano. Not quite sure how to put it into words, but it's absolutely exhilarating hearing your own fingers produce these huge sounds and intense chord progressions. Every time I managed to find the right chord I'd get such a rush. "Oh no he di…
Moonlight sonata was hard for me, still is… because I only ever became fluent up to three sharps and three flats key signatures. And moonlight is in a key that is 4 sharps. Makes it very hard to fumble through
That's interesting. I suppose I was lucky, because I started as a kid with traditional piano lessons but lost interest around age 12, but my interest in piano was rekindled when I discovered the guitar and was introduced to the idea of playing by ear. I got back into piano by playing along with a lot of pop and rock songs, so E major has been a very comfortable key signature for me since it's such a great guitar key signature.