My experience at this session was really fun and it inspired me to go learn and play the piano. What I found surprising was that Baruch College has a piano room for any who wants to play. The lesson wasn’t complicated at all, the instructor made it easy for everyone to learn how to play a specific rhythm of the blues. She would play on the left side of the piano while myself and others played on the right side. The instructor broke down our parts into five keys and we had to play them in a certain pattern. She would play a chorus, while others would play the melody. I learned that the blues uses the same keys for every song, but it’s all about creating different patterns with them. The piano has 88 keys in total with 44 being white and 44 being black. The pedals at the bottom of the piano allow for a note to last longer without having to hold the key. Under the hood of the piano is a row of strings that are plucked when you press a key, thus creating the sound. She mentioned how people are trying to create new ways to play the piano by plucking the strings from under the hood. This would then create a harp-like style of play mixed with the piano. I learned a lot coming to this session and I will definitely be back.