Jenny Dalton stopped by in September to perform a few songs and talk about her CD, Fleur de Lily.
I think at first I started to play to ear…the first song I played was “Chariots of Fire”…so I started playing by ear a little bit and then also making some really simple piano songs. It was really frustrating for me at first because I would watch people play piano and there hands are doing different things and they’re all over the keyboard–I was like, “Why can’t I do that?” My left hand has to do this really simple–keep a beat and play one note while my right hand does this thing–so I first learned to separate what the left hand and the right hand were doing…Eventually I had to learn how to separate the left hand, the right hand and the vocals so they were all doing their separate things. That’s when I started to write my favorite songs. I–in my mind–mastered what I needed to master so I could take off and do what I needed to do.
–Jenny Dalton explaining how she taught herself how to play piano.
Credits:
Producer: Tony Thomas
Assistant Engineer: Andy Boss
Music: Jenny Dalton
Thanks: Jeff Waldeland (mics); Jon Tranberry (mixing board)
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