Personal Narrative: Piano

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There is something I can do for four hours straight without getting tired. I really enjoy in the music of piano. So you can see that I love to play piano. It is the thing I would if you ask me to choose something to do.
I started to play the piano when I was in the age of five. I was attracted by the sound of piano. When I was in kindergarten, my sister was learning piano. I learn to play piano by watching my sister. My mom realized that and took me to take real lessons. The thing didn't go smoothly at beginning.
We found a wrong teacher. She was not well qualified, only can play few songs without skills. I spent four years learning piano with her. I found out I wasn’t learning new kills, even though I was learning new songs, but I wasn’t improving. I thought I was wasting my time. I locked her outside the classroom while she was talking outside on phone. She told my mom and expelled me. I was happy with that.
Some friends of mom in the church recommended her a teacher. She helped on the basics and classic music. So I started to learn classic musics, sonatinas, and minuet with her. Thing is not always good. She has a daughter, who is same age as me. My teacher didn't want me to play better than her daughter, so all I can do is to find new teacher.
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I was back to the time I learned everything by myself. Fortunately, I was a fast learner. I learned to play songs by myself, but I need somebody to correct my mistakes. Mom found me a new teacher. She is the best teacher I ever have. She develop my piano skills. Before I met her, I had a bad tempo. So she made stay after every piano lessons, to practice my tempo with metronome. Whenever I play faster than the metronome, she would lower down the tempo, that way I would remember to lower down my tempo and follow the metronome. She even helped me enter a piano

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