#599 – Chordophone
Posted on September 26, 2008 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I’ve always meant to learn how to play piano but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. As a kid I had a Casio keyboard. It was great because I could sit in the living room and play it while wearing headphones. I would play on it for hours at a time but I never learned how to do it properly. I would just pick out melodies by ear that I heard on the radio or TV.
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Hah, that’s what I do. I sit there with my headphones and just try to work some stuff out by ear, even though I suck at it.
I do play guitar though 🙂
I can imagine Biff shaking it once and it expands to its right dimension.
Hmm really reminds me of an accordion.
I need to get me one of those.
I used to play piano as a kid but never practised properly and ended up stopping- it’s one of the things I wish I’d spent more time on while I had so much of it.
I have picked out 2 songs on the piano that I can successfully play (most of the time). Axel F (theme from Beverly Hills Cop) and Blue (Da Ba Dee) by EIffel 65.
Plus all the beginner ones that everyone knows, Chopsticks and Heart & Soul
i play guitar, i could never get my hands around playing the piano… which sucks cause i like the sound of a piano.
Yamaha Baby Grand. 🙂
“Biff unpacks his new keytar.”
I wish I had that, it would be so useful.
I`ve been reading this for a while and I just have to say this…
HOW DO YOU CONTROLL EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE BY USING A WEB COMIC!?
I lost my hair I have to squint my eyes all the time my mouth is huge my eyebrows are insane!
HELP ME!
I just got done reading through the archives and now I can officially call myself a reader. Yay! Thank you, Chris, for my newfound source of amusement. =)
@Tia – Hey that’s great to hear. 🙂
This comic reminds me of those tents on cartoons that are little bags and explode into full sized tents.
And if Biff is that good with hinges maybe he can come give this room a door.
I wonder how he’s gonna unpack that thing…
Chris… you have 599 comics!!!!
More actually, considering the sick day comic. SO IT’S 600!!!!!!
I wanted to play piano, but like evreything I try to do, it was ruined by idiots. If you’re wondering what happened, I hate it when my mother tells me stuff I already know, so I never practiced paino on days where she would tell me to practice out of spite. She knew that I did this and even acknowledged it, so of course she blamed me for not practicing enough, so I quit piano just to get her stop.
Holy crackle snacks, that’s sweet, congrats!!!
trevor, you need to lighten up. The world IS made of idiots and you have to get used to it.
I can’t wait until #600…
Trevor, you sound like my ex-boyfriend and if you don’t quit complaining about the world I will be forced to take all the sucker punches that he deserves and administer them to you.
I’m trying to figure out how he got the damn thing out instead of how he put it in.
the hinges help, but still.. Biff must have some mad tetris skills.
@starseedjenny
For someone that feels a connection to a…dangerously peculiar character from the xkcd’verse, you talk a good deal of common sense.
Then again, some of us have this “I actually become smarter when I’m trying to get at someone else’s stuff” gene.
And honestly…he sounds like lots of people.
We all need reasons (excuses, if you will) to fail, and reasons to succeed. The meat of the issue is, in how common and/or elaborate those are.
Anyways…I hope that case supports the weight of it. ‘Cos even in Biffville(tm), things don’t seem to get any lighter just by occupying less space.
Phew! For a minute there, I thought Biff’s piano was dropped off a building like they always do in movies, cartoons & commercials & shattered into a million pieces! Good thing this is not the case – I cry whenever that happens. :’-(
I had to learn to play piano when I was younger. I wanted to at first, but as the lessons went on I enjoyed it less and less. My teacher was a child prodigy who had been made to perform when she was young, even if she was so nervous that she vomited before going onstage. Consequently, she yelled at all of her students and treated us like we were stupid if we couldn’t pick something up right away. It was pretty much the worst possible learning experience and turned me off piano for life.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the fiddle, though. Too bad they’re so expensive.
i once took a music course…
we got forced to do blues, so i just gave up and played music from the war of the worlds audiobook-type thing.
I LOVE THAT THING (*but not as a film*)
wow…a portable Grand Piano…i’d buy that…and promptly begin learning to play it.