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To conclude this trip down prelude memory lane (at least for the time being), here is the veeery first piece I worked on with Don Betts. I\u2019ve actually hardly played this one since that first year of lessons, but I found it came back quickly. Is playing a piece like riding a bicycle? Maybe a little.

\n\n\n\n\n\nFr\xe9d\xe9ric Chopin\n\n\n\n\u25b6\ufe0f\nPrelude Op 28 No 4 (in E minor)\n\n\nPaul Cantrell, piano\n\n\n\n\n\n\u2b07\ufe0f\nDownload\n\n\n(2:41 / 3.7 M)\n\n\n\n

Don always gives this one to his beginner students. At the time, although I\u2019d had piano lessons for many years as a child, and had recently played piano in a dixie band, I was still really a beginner in many ways. I\u2019d brought Louis Lortie\u2019s recording of the Chopin \xe9tudes (or more accurately, stolen it from my parents), and as I fell in love with Chopin, I began to think that taking piano lessons might not be such a bad thing. So I signed up, Don gave me this piece, and now here I am, quitting my job to noodle around with the piano all day.

I realize just now as I write this that my first lesson with Don would have been ten years ago this month. Gosh.