:O You don't know how badly I wanted to play the Robotnik themes! It just used to be the two base notes that I would play, and hum the rest.
Well, I was taught Keyboard for Grade 1 and passed with 98%. However, for both fear of getting a lower grade (which was somewhat inevitable) and seeing that learning more would be pointless, I gave up, and taught myself.
I can read music, but I have to note down every last little bit. IT also helps if I know the tune, so that I can anticipate whether it goes up or down (very technical language, I know) so that I can just put it into the required key.
I pretty much make my own compositions. I get a theme in my mind, try and play it according to the theme, and then treat it as a minimalistic peice. I'm currently doing one that revolves around winter, but I'm having trouble finding a new "phrase" in it.
My piano's exceedingly out of tune as well. We had to move it outside and round the house so I could have it in my room (we had no room for it after my sis moved back in) so now I cringe if I play two 'a's that are at least two octaves apart.
Oh, and my friend has just learnt "I'm a Pirate" (she's got a diploma or some random thing that is past Grade eight in Keyboard) and she playes it on her Tyros 2. It is so schmexy. She's relly good at it, and she has complete knowledge of her keyboard, allowing her to mix four different types of strings together. At my request, she is now working on remixing into some kind of techno version. I never knew it was by Klaus Badelt though. I seem to think that movie music falls from the sky and just so happens to be playing at the same time, and coincidence is what makes it sound cool. ;P
I love being the centre of attention, even if I'm not playing so well that day. At my last recital, during Sonatina, I accidentally skipped like, half of it, and during One Moment in Time, my music fell on my fingers as I was playing. But... When I played One Moment in Time last June at a recital (everyone loves me on that song... And it's grade five level, so I'm proud to have learned it before I even finished grade four) and it just... It was the best feeling ever, I don't know, I was completely wrapped up in the music.