So a couple days ago we got a cheap keyboard because I wanted to try to learn some music stuff

Today, I got down some of the right hand part of To Zanarkand ^.^ Still keep hitting wrong notes though. Keyboards are awkwardly sized

most of our musical experience has been with viola so while we can probably still fluently read alto clef sheet music and translate that to fingerings if we had a moment to remind ourselves of the reference points, we can't actually read treble or bass clef very fluently at all and also translating that to positions on a keyboard is very different from fingerings on a viola, and less intuitive I think

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In other words: music is hard and musical ability on one instrument doesn't translate over to another instrument very easily

especially when that one instrument uses the rare-as-hens-teeth alto clef

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