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I'm fairly new to the community and only have a level 25 account, however I have found that many of the people that I run into while playing 5v5's can't manage their Karthus character very well. I kept looking for a build with a high rating but it never came, so I've adapted mine from 3 that I really like. The three are each fairly good, but are a little off and haven't been updated for the new masteries. That being said, I've gone head to head with other Karthuses in mid lane, and have never lost mid to them. This is probably the best build I know of for someone looking to go full AP with Karthus. Without further ado, lets get right into this setup. Even if your team doesn't walk out with the win (most of the time its because they expect you to initiate) you still walk away with tons of kills, as you can see here:
So the runes, as you can see are geared only to increase your AP. Which is really what you need, since you have enough survivability with the health pots and heal to live through the squishy part of your laning phase and your mana pot and some discretion on casting lay waste will refund some of the mana you lose while creep farming. Karthus is a character who's gameplay and communication revolve solely around his ult.
The masteries are built much like the runes. All of the runes are built to increase AP and damage especially when they are their last leg. That's why executioner is fairly important to this build. You can see this build adds 22 AP and increases the amount by 5%, and when you're talking about over 1000 AP at full build 5% ends up being alot, and it stacks with Rabadon's DC.
Since we've established that we are boosting your AP, we are trying to stack as much AP into your items with minimum attention to survivability. You always wanna start out with boots ,2 health pots, and 1 mana pot. This gives you mobility to harass using Q (lay waste) while being able to avoid the return damage they will no doubt try and lay on you. It also allows you to survive early game ganks, sometimes I've had the entire other team try and kill me right out of the gate, and it never works as long as I have the pots. Sometimes if I quickly overpower the enemy champ in mid lane, I will recall and grab an extra mana pot. One of the downsides of this build is that if you spam Q and E you will lose mana really quickly during the laning phase. Generally speaking, you should try not to recall until you hit level 6 and have 750 to upgrade your boots. After that, your Tear of the Goddess should build fairly quickly and the Archangel's Staff will follow suit, If you notice that you don't have the Sorcerer's boots, Archangel's Staff, and a spare blasting wand by level 10 you should start laying the E (defile) on thick. Using it together with Q is really important. After that you just pick up kills and farm mins to get the remaining weapons. You should hit full build around 60-70 minutes into the game, and by then your ult will hit for 1200+ and all enemy champs will be forced to waste item slots on Magic Resist items.
If you find that you are getting steam-rolled by one character class or another, don't be afraid to pick up a magic resist item or armor item to make yourself less vulnerable until you get a couple rabadon's deathcaps in your inventory.
Skill Sequence
Unlike some other characters, Karthus' skill sequence isn't the same for both dominion and classic modes. In classic mode you're going to want to build up your main harass skill, Lay Waste (Q) fairly early. It is helpful to build a fairly strong defile or at least have one early game to deter melee champions away from attacking you, and to add extra damage on top of the damage you already do with lay waste. It is also helpful to instruct your teammates to fight close to where you die, so that the skills you can cast up to 8 seconds after you die help turn the fight around to their favor. Late game it is important to trap them with your wall, and then chase them with E active while spamming Q. Hitting them after they've run through your wall is a good way to add more damage to your already lethal attacks due to their decreased magic resistance.
In dominion however, due to increased movement speed of everything, I have found Defile and Wall of Pain to be more usefull. I normally level Lay Waste once, and then max it out last, partially because I've found it so hard to land on moving champs. The item sequence is the same though.
Summoner Spells
For Karthus I primarily use ghost and heal. I've had some people ask me why I don't use abilities like surge or ignite. Surge seems like a great idea for someone that's full AP. However the truth is that it just doesn't add that much too be viable over the ability to keep champs in your defile via ghost or the ability to survive early ganks AND late team fights. The problem with exhaust is that while it does the same thing (increases your speed relative to your victims) it only targets one champ, if you ghost you can keep up with multiple champs instead of picking one out of the bunch.
Pros / Cons
He is great at clean ups from team fights, those champs that always get away don't anymore.
He gives really great map coverage, you don't have to be in a team fight to earn kills and assists in it.
After he hits level 8 or 9 he jungles like a pro.
There are characters who can jump over or move through your wall, like fizz. Or ones that can dodge your ult by healing or using skills, like Gangplank eating oranges. Try and wait till they've blown their summoner skills and used their champ skills before firing the ult.
Karthus is really item dependent, you can't count on being fed, you have to be aggressive and devour.
When Karthus' wall is on cooldown he is susceptible to being ganked. And his wall has a longer CD.
His ult also has a 2 minute CD, you can't afford to just use it on a whim, and they know its coming.
Laning and Farming
Karthus was made to hog the mid lane. In the early game your going to want to auto-attack minions and then finish them with your lay waste, you have to use it with discretion because he will become starved for mana quickly if you just spam it. You also want to keep him moving when you're popping in and out for Q spam on enemy champs. When you lane against melee champs play conservatively but chances are if you act weak while your heal is up, they will try to turret dive you, then you simply wall trap them, pop E, and spam Q. Nothing works better. When laning against other casters like Veigar and brand, remember that mobility will solve most of your problems. Keep moving to avoid getting hit with their nukes. Also remember to stay behind your minions. Ranged champs that are a little bit of a pain but easily manageable with some skill include: Veigar, Brand, Morgana, Heimerdinger, Ashe, Vayne, Caitlyn, Lux, and Xerath. The ranged or mage types that you NEVER want to lane with are Leblanc and Anivia. Swain is substantially harder to lane with than those on the previous list, however not nearly as bad as the two I just mentioned. Leblanc is super hard to hit with her flash damage and constant teleportation, while Anivia does way more damage than you early game and you can't kill her egg in the first half of the game. Other ranged or mage champs are really easily disarmed. Teemo, graves, keenen, kog'maw, orianna, annie, and vladmir never offer much of a threat when you just move and stay behind minions except to finish a kill.
When mirror laning (laning against a Karthus) just remember the tricks you'd use. Watch out for his wall, keep moving, and try and build a stronger defile than he does. Its also more important to recall more often after he hits lvl 6 and try and kill minions to buy items more quickly, chances are, if you use this build you can outplay him.
After you hit level 8 or 9 you should try and jungle the blue buff. It will decrease the frequency between your recalls, keeping you in the lane longer and increasing your damage output.
Team Work
Killing enemy champs and effectively assisting your teammates will rely on their communication with you. Ideally, you should keep them posted on your ult's damage output, and how long till it's ready to fire. However, this rarely works. I normally have to monitor the map while i'm a moving to and from lanes. Occasionally you will get a good team but don't count on it. You should also never expect to initiate with Karthus. Ulting can happen in two places, either 3 or 4 seconds after your teammate has initiated, or after everyone is starting run away. Ideally you cast it when 2 or 3 champs are at 1/4 - 1/3 health. It really comes down to whether you want kills or assists.


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2015-09-10 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) It will be a momentous moment for all South Africans on Sunday, 13 September, when Benedict Daswa is Beatified and put on the track to become the Nation's first Saint and martyr.
Pope Francis in January authorized the signing of the proclamation for the Beatification of Daswa, a lay person from the Southern African province of Limpopo.
He was a dedicated Catholic husband, father and schoolteacher in the remote rural town of Tschitanini when he was brutally murdered in 1990 for having opposed witchcraft beliefs and practices.
Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will represent Pope Francis during the Beatification ceremony.
The diocese of Tzaneen, which encompasses the area, opened an inquiry into Daswa's death that ended in July 2009. It resulted in 850 pages of testimonies from people who witnessed the life and death of Daswa. This was forwarded to Cardinal Amato after they were signed by the then bishop of Tzaneen, Hugh Slattery.
Linda Bordoni spoke to the current Bishop of the Diocese of Tzaneen, Joao Noe Rodriguez, who says the Beatification ceremony is taking place in the village where Benedict Daswa came from.
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Bishop Rodriguez says Benedict was born in that area and spent most of his life there and in the neighboring Nweli village where he helped build a Catholic Church and where he was Principle of the Primary School.
Rodriguez, who of course is in charge of organizing the event and has closely been following the whole process, says it is very difficult to make an exact estimate of the numbers of people who will be attending the Beatification as many will be travelling long distances from different parts of South Africa.
"On the other hand it is a big venue in terms of being able to accommodate from 20 to 30 thousand in the open-air area" and at least 20,000 are definitely expected he says.
He says it is a unique occasion: "we've never had anything like this before in South Africa but the word has got around (…) and people are opening their homes in welcome".
Rodriguez explains that the main celebrant of the Beatification will be Cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who will be arriving with Monsignor Sarno.
He points out that most South African bishops will be present and will be concelebrating as well as South Africa's Cardinal, Wilfrid Fox Napier.
Speaking of the importance of the event for the Catholic Church in South Africa Bishop Rodriguez explains that the nation is made up of a very diverse population in terms of cultures.
He says that his own diocese is part of Venda Land after the name of the Venda culture, on the Eastern side there are the Tsonga speaking people and on the South Western side the Northern Sotho people, and then of course there are many other cultures and languages in South Africa.
"In a way the Beatification is a very important event for us who are Catholics because South Africa is largely a Protestant Christian country in the sense that most Christians belong to various Protestant Churches of different kinds as well as more recent Christian movements (…) so the Catholic Church is a smaller presence. But at the same time we are very organized and we have a good network so this event will bring many Catholics together and it will really be a celebration of our Catholic faith" he says.
Rodriquez speaks about Benedict Daswa and of how important his model is explaining that he was not born into a Christian family. He says: "they became Catholics and it is a unique fact that his mother, who is still alive, will be present for the Beatification."
All of his children will also be present "so it will be a wonderful occasion to celebrate the joy and the grace of God" he says.
Rodriguez points out that Benedict is also an intercessor "so this growing devotion will also help Catholics to understand and appreciate that someone who is recognized as a martyr and a saint in the Church is someone who is praying for them and who has the interests of our life in his heart".
He is also a wonderful model as he was a dedicated father and the Principle of a School, and Rodriguez says "education is so precious in our region, it is still a huge challenge, and he is an important inspiration for people involved in this field".
Rodriguez lists all those who have been invited to attend the Beatification and those include political leaders as well as leaders of other faiths as well.
He speaks of the ceremony itself which will reflect the variety of cultures present in the Limpopo region but says English will be the main language of communication.
Pointing out that Benedict Daswa comes across as a very "approachable" figure; I asked Bishop Rodriguez if he thinks Benedict is a Saint for everyone.
He says the unique aspect of his Beatification is that he was not a well-known person in the sense he did not become a well-known figure internationally for political or other reasons.
"Benedict Dasia was really an ordinary man and we are not celebrating him for national achievements, but he was a man of great faith. And that is the wonderful thing (…) he was one of us but deeply committed to Jesus Christ, deeply committed in his family life, in his work life, in his community life. A man who was serving, helping, educating: an overall inspiration of faith for anyone".
The beatification of Benedict Daws takes place on Sunday 13 September 2015 at Benedict Daws Shrine Site in Tshitanini near Thohoyandou (17 kms north -east of the Thohoyandou Stadium) in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. For more information click here.
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FARMINGTON, Pa. -- Get out the beer and chips, pull up the
recliner. Jason Gore, the everyman's version of a PGA Tour pro, is
playing in the final group on Sunday again.
Only this time, Gore doesn't want to play like someone pulled
out of the grandstands, given a visor and a golf glove and told to
compete against some of the world's best players for a
Gore, whose rags-to-riches-to-rags odyssey and spectator-like
physique instantly made him into a fan favorite at the U.S. Open,
shot a 5-under 67 Saturday to open a two-shot lead over a group of
five after three rounds of the 84 Lumber Classic.
"It's where you want to be," Gore said of being in the lead.
"It's only what you make of it, and it's still golf tomorrow. It
should be exciting."
Gore got off to a great start by chipping in from 63 feet for an
eagle 2 at the 371-yard, par-4 first, and had six birdies to offset
three bogeys for his second round in the 60s in three days. He had
an opening-round 65 on Thursday and an even-par 72 Friday.
Gore leads a group of relative no-names, including Craig Barlow,
who is 108th on the money list but was tied with Gore at 12 under
before taking a double-bogey 7 at No. 16. His pitch from a pot
bunker alongside the green squirted into a deep patch of hillside
"I have to eliminate a few mistakes -- to win out here, you
can't have mistakes," said Barlow, who had a third-round 70.
"I've had a double bogey every day and I'm still, what, tied for
Also at 10-under 206 are Tag Ridings (67), Carlos Franco (68),
Rod Pampling (69) and Carl Pettersson (70). Three back are Justin
Leonard (70) and Chris DiMarco (67) -- hey, finally some
recognizable names -- and Cameron Beckman (73).
"I'm in good position," DiMarco said.
As far as no-names go, Gore was as anonymous as a player can be
until making a name for himself at the U.S. Open, though not
entirely for the right reasons. Somehow playing his way into the
final group on Sunday, he shot a 14-over 84 at Pinehurst No. 2 that
dropped him all the way to a 41st-place tie.
Despite the humbling experience for a likable golfer whose
paunch and gee-whiz demeanor give him a John Daly-like persona on a
PGA Tour known for its country club primness and polish, Gore's
career took off after that Sunday meltdown.
And, yes, his caddie is still wearing his Pabst Blue Ribbon cap,
not because of a promotional tie-in but because he and Gore like
that brand.
"I think I learned so much the last round of the Open that I
was able to take it into the Nationwide events, knowing that I'm
probably not going to see anything ever like what I dealt with at
the Open," he said. "It just kind of puts it all in
His confidence somehow intact after Pinehurst, Gore went back to
the Nationwide Tour and won three straight times, shooting a 59
along the way. Now, he's trying to pull off a feat similar to that
of Paul Stankowski by winning on the developmental tour and the PGA
Tour in the same year. Stankowski took the 1996 Louisiana Open and
the PGA Tour's Bell South Classic in consecutive weeks.
Stankowski got into the Bell South as a sixth alternate; Gore,
who was playing on the minor-league circuit only last month, would
be the first to win on the PGA Tour in the same season he earned
the automatic promotion that goes to anyone winning three times on
the Nationwide Tour.
"It would mean a lot," Gore said.
Gore, who also played on the PGA Tour in 2001 and 2003 but
couldn't keep his card, isn't performing against a weak field,
either. Four of the top six money winners, including No. 2 Vijay
Singh and No. 3 Phil Mickelson, were in a better-than-average field
for a post-major event.
Mickelson almost missed the cut at the $4.4 million tournament,
but had a fifth PGA Tour career hole-in-one Saturday and is seven
off the lead after a 67. Singh is nine strokes back after a
third-round 73.
The 31-year-old Gore has never finished higher than an
18th-place tie in a PGA Tour event, and his year-to-date PGA
earnings are $40,399 -- a wage the average fan can relate to, unlike
Tiger Woods' $8 million-plus winnings.
"I've got them all fooled," Gore said, laughing, of his
newfound fan popularity.
Gore is the seventh to be automatically promoted from the
Nationwide to the PGA Tour; the best previous finish in the same
season was Chad Campbell's 2nd at the 2001 Southern Farm Bureau
Classic. ... DiMarco won the tournament in 2000, when it was known
as the Pennsylvania Classic and was played in the Philadelphia
area. ... Barlow has been in the Top 25 in four of his last five
starts, but never won in 209 previous PGA Tour tournaments. ...
Mickelson's hole-in-one was his first since the 2001 U.S. Open. ...
Second-round leader Stuart Appleby shot a 75 and is four back at
208. ... One of Gore's Nationwide wins was in Bridgeport, W. Va.,
about an hour south of Farmington. Gore first began playing golf
during a summer spent working at his uncle's course in Export, Pa.,
near Pittsburgh. His mother grew up in Pittsburgh.


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Prudential chief executive Tidjane Thiam will face the British insurance giant's shareholders Monday amid calls for his resignation over a failed takeover of AIG's Asian unit AIA.
The annual general meeting was supposed to confirm the 35.5-billion-dollar (30-billion-euro) takeover of AIA, but the hugely ambitious deal collapsed last week after AIG refused to accept a lower offer.
Prudential was left with a 450-million-pound (540-million-euro, 660-million-dollar) bill, including a break fee of 152 million pounds, and a number of shareholders are calling for Thiam's head.
"Someone at board level should be accountable for the losses associated with this failed deal," said Richard Buxton, head of UK equities at Schroders.
"Blaming the weakness of markets for the failure of shareholders to approve the deal is disingenuous."
The Franco-Ivorian chief executive has been in his post for just eight months -- he was previously finance director of the group, and before that, worked at rivals Aviva.
Both he and chairman Harvey McGrath have insisted that no heads will roll following the collapse of the AIA deal.
"No one has offered to resign and no one has been asked to resign," McGrath told the Financial Times Friday, saying the shareholders calling for change were "outliers" and the biggest investors supported the top team.
Thiam also told the business daily: "It is a clever thing to try and connect my inability to seal a 35-billion-dollar deal with my broad ability to run a company, but it is a fallacy.
"To say I'm inexperienced in running a 35-billion-dollar transaction, that's true. Not many have experience of running a 35-billion-dollar transaction."
Thiam took a huge gamble in making the bid, in what would have been the biggest ever takeover in the insurance sector and was intended to transform the 162-year-old firm into an international insurance powerhouse.
But when turbulent financial markets made the original price tag impossible, he was unable to persuade AIG to re-negotiate a cheaper deal.
Thiam took over last October amid huge excitement, becoming the the first black person to lead a major British company. He was described by ING analyst Kevin Ryan as having a "brain the size of two solar systems".
The 47-year-old diplomat's son was born in Ivory Coast and became the first Ivorian to study at France's prestigious Ecole Polytechnique. He received an MBA from INSEAD and in 1988, he joined US consultants McKinsey in Paris.
In 1994, he returned to Ivory Coast at the request of president Henri Konan Bedie. Thiam always said he was proud that "politics didn't kill" in his country, and he joined the cabinet as secretary of planning and development.
But at Christmas 1999, when Thiam was abroad, the government was overthrown. While he briefly went back, he found himself confined to his house and so left, and for six months "I had no job, no career, nothing at all".
On the plus side, he said "it taught me a lot about myself. If you've been in a situation where you have nothing, there's nothing much you're afraid of".
There was yet more disappointment when he returned to France, where he complained his African origins barred him from achieving high office.
A strong believer in meritocracy, he responded by taking his American lawyer wife and their two sons across the Channel to Britain in 2002, where he joined Aviva and developed a love of Arsenal football club.
Thiam faces another difficult situation this week, but is keeping his cool as he insists he will keep his job.
"We are doing very well, we (Prudential) are in a very good health, I hope that it will contribute to the image people will keep of me," he said.


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I've always liked the idea of learning to play piano. I tried it a couple of times in high school, never getting further than learning Yankee Doodle from a workbook.
A couple of years ago I was considering buying a digital piano/keyboard and trying to learn again. My partner Josh surprised me with a digital piano for my birthday, and I've been struggling to pick up the skill ever since.
I'm not against the idea of taking piano lessons at all. The problem is, piano lessons aren't cheap. But the alternative isn't working out too well.
So far my attempts to teach myself piano have mostly been working through easy sheet music painfully slowly, learning the music by rote. I can recognise maybe 3 or 4 notes on a score thanks to my few high school lessons. That's just enough to work out what each note is, one by one. It's a painstaking process, made even more frustrating by the fact that I'm not actually getting any better at reading the music. I simply learn to play each song by heart, and if I don't play one for a few weeks or months, I have to pick out each note and relearn the song all over again.
Time to get digital
I'd come across a few apps over the past year that purported to teach you piano. Even the more expensive options were a lot cheaper than an actual teacher, so I decided to test this claim.
Can an app really teach me piano? And will music teachers soon be obsolete with this kind of technology growling at their doors?
Getting started
My first step is to put together a list of apps that I could use for this project. I've heard of a few, and with some extra research I manage to make a list of six options:
There are a few differences between them: some seem to have more popular songs in their catalogue, while others focus more on copyright-free classics; some are iOS apps while others are web apps, designed to be used in the browser; most of them use subscription models to let you access all the material, while one is designed as a course you purchase all at once with a one-time fee.
Jellynote is more focused on learning to play particular songs, rather than learning piano from scratch, so it gets knocked off the list first.
I've tried another app by the team behind Simply Piano briefly in the past, and while it seemed useful, it also has a distinctive "for kids" feel to it. I keep Simply Piano on my list, but it's not my top choice.
I try Yousician, which has a free app for iOS, and quite enjoy it. It works in a similar fashion to Simply Piano, moving the on-screen sheet music along as you try to keep up on your piano, only without cute characters and Taylor Swift songs.
Unfortunately, because the iOS app uses the phone's microphone to listen to my piano, it also seems to hear the app's own music and sound effects. If I turn the sound on my phone up loud enough to hear the instructions and the beat I'm playing along with, I get complaints that the app can't hear my playing well enough. Turn it down, and I can't play on time or hear instructions for the lessons.
I did think about using headphones, but then I'd have to turn the piano up louder so I could hear it through the headphones. I don't want to bother Josh or the neighbours just so the app on my phone could hear me, so I go back to my list.
Frustrated with the limitations of using an app on my phone, I bust out my laptop to try some of the browser-based options. These apps let me use a MIDI-USB cable from my piano to the computer, so don't have to worry about noise interference.
I start with Skoove. Like most of the options on my list, Skoove is a free-for-all with a subscription. You can do some of the lessons for free, but paying monthly gives you access to everything for as long as you want to pay. Skoove starts me off by showing me how to play a few notes: Middle C, D, and E. Nothing I haven't seen before, but it sure is nice to be playing straight away.
Only, I have to keep taking my hands of the keyboard to click buttons in the Skoove app. All the clicking is a pain, but it also draws my attention over and over to the fact that the "Next" button overlaps the text instructions. It really hurts the professionalism of Skoove to have such a glaring design hole.
And I can't help feeling like I'm left alone too much. The app lets me skip ahead when I feel like it, but I want to be told when I'm ready for the next step—you're meant to be the expert here, Skoove!
I'm not feeling great about Skoove, so I decide to give Pianu a try. This is the only course with a different set-up on my list. Pianu charges a one-time fee for the course—actually two courses, but you can bundle them together, too. You learn to read music in one set of lessons, and to play music in the other.
Pianu offers a single free lesson to try out the app before purchasing a full course. This free lesson is all about naming notes on the piano. Obviously very important, but it doesn't give me a good idea of whether Pianu will be worth my money. I can already recognise the piano notes (though not very quickly). I want to learn to read them on a sheet of music, and to play that music without spending 30 seconds per note finding it on the piano.
The Pianu courses might be great, but that lesson didn't convince me at all.
Flowkey is the last browser-based app I have to try. I get it up-and-running, but quickly realise it's not a very fun experience. Unlike Pianu, Flowkey drops me in at the deep end, to some degree. There's sheet music and an animated hand playing keys on a piano on the screen, and I'm asked to play along. Without note names anywhere, I'm relying on translating the hand movements to my own hand. Maybe this is a great way to learn, but it doesn't feel like it. I'm so busy watching the hand (I'm learning right hand only for now) that I'm not paying attention to the scrolling sheet music at all—how will I ever learn to read it that way?
Like Skoove, I seem to be able to stay in the same section of each lesson for as long as I want with Flowkey. When I move to the next section, I'm asked to play the same notes in time, though slowly. There's no way I can watch the animated hand and figure out what to play myself while staying in time. I fall two beats behind immediately, and quickly give up.
Flowkey felt horrible. I know learning will be hard, and I'm willing to put in time and effort to learn, but I don't want to feel bad about playing piano. How will I convince myself to keep doing it if the experience is terrible every time? I'm actually starting to wonder if Flowkey is designed for teaching new songs to people who can already play piano.
I look at my list again, and wonder if I need to give in and try the "for kids" Simply Piano. Then I realise Yousician has been one of the best experiences so far, except for the sound issues. It was the one I tried on my phone that felt like a game, but without the characters and pop songs from Simply Piano.
I have a look at the Yousician website and see that there's a Mac app I can use. I get it set up and find that, though there are still some sound issues—having the instructions loud enough means I'm blown away by the volume of the sound effects at the end of each lesson—it's not having trouble hearing me now that I'm using MIDI input.
I pick up where I left off and try a few lessons. I feel my shoulders tense as I try to play in time, but I really enjoy the way these lessons are set up. Yousician offers a good balance of kid-friendly, Guitar Hero-style game interface and a sense of accomplishment from playing short tunes you actually recognise, or at least enjoy.
So, Yousician it is. I don't know when I'll hit the limits of the free tier, but the subscription only costs $20 per month, so paying for one month to get this experiment done won't cost too much.
Yousician Day Two
I started out with Yousician yesterday, just fiddling around. I got it working and did a few lessons to test it out. It seemed fine, until I got thrown into a skills test. The test actually went okay—it was very, very basic. But after I passed it, I was given another skills test which I failed at miserably. For some reason, Yousician decided I did well enough in the second test to skip a whole bunch of lessons, and threw me into reading music for left and right hands and playing both at once. There's no way I'm ready for that!
I worried that maybe it wouldn't be any better than the other options I'd looked at, but resolved to try it again with an open mind today.
So this morning I went back through the lesson track manually and did all the lessons yesterday's skill test made me skip. (I've also realised there's a way to skip skill tests when they're suggested, even though the app makes it seem like doing the test is the only way forward. I'll be sure to avoid any in the future!)
Today's catch-up lessons included a whole section that teaches playing with the left hand, and one that gently introduces playing both hands together.
Josh heard quite a few grunts and moans from downstairs as I played When The Saints Go Marching In (some basic notes from its melody, anyway) over and over and over. At this point I'm playing both hands, but I'm also moving my hands into different positions on the piano, which makes everything harder.
Each note has a colour on the music I'm "reading", but the colours are matched on each hand by finger, not by note. It's hard to explain, so here's an example:
E is pink for both hands, because it's played by the third/middle finger for both hands.
F is played by the second/pointer finger on the left hand, and by the fourth/ring finger on the right hand. The second finger note is always yellow, so on the bottom stave F is yellow, but on the top stave, it's blue, because the fourth finger note is always blue.
I didn't quite get this about Yousician until I started doing different hand positions. Then I realised matching the notes to my hands didn't work, because moving my hands meant the notes were under different fingers. But the Yousician keys on screen always have the notes I'm playing coloured to match what I've learned, so I can trust that a blue note is always a fourth-finger note, and a yellow note is always a second-finger note.
Although I figured this out today, I'm having a hard time getting my brain to tell my hands the right thing in time. Pink is easy, because it's the same for both hands, but I'm constantly getting blue and yellow (second and fourth fingers) mixed up, and green and red (first finger/thumb and fifth finger/pinkie) mixed up.
There's a lot more playing to be done to get this right!
I also paid for a subscription today. It cost $19.99 USD, though you can get it half price per month if you sign up for a year all at once. The free tier lets you do a certain amount of learning per day for free, but I hit that pretty quickly today and decided I'd be happy to pay for one month to give it a solid test for the next couple of weeks.
And now I've got When The Saints Go Marching In stuck in my head.
Left hand trouble
I had a couple of days off from Yousician but today I'm back at it.
I pick up where I left off, trying to play a song called Hua Hui that's upbeat and fun, but very fast. It has some left hand parts that I'm struggling with, and the last section uses both hands, but I'm barely hitting one out of 8 of the notes.
I'm feeling a bit exasperated, so I try to find some left-hand lessons I've already done to help me get a better handle of which colours of notes match which finger on each hand.
After repeating some past lessons I'm still not sure how I'm going to get through the lesson I'm stuck on, apart from practising it until I have it memorised. But the point of this process is to learn to play for real so I don't have to memorise music in order to play it anymore.
Wondering what to do, I start clicking around to see what lessons are coming up next. I notice that the last lesson in this section says in the description that the lesson's song has a tricky two-hand part at the end, and suggests using practice mode to learn each hand separately.
I have to say, Yousician did a terrible job of introducing this part of the app. I go back to the lesson I'm stuck on and find the practice mode option. I also see controls I'd overlooked before, that let me slow down the song and choose which hand to play. I switch to left-hand only mode and set the speed to 70% of the song's normal pace.
This is more like it!
I play the left-hand parts over and over, upping the speed whenever I've pretty much got the hang of it.
Then I switch to right-hand only and get used to playing that part at full speed. Finally, I put both hands together, dropping the speed way down again while I get used to it.
Eventually I get through it twice at normal speed, and switch to performance mode. Now that I know practice mode exists, performance mode seems like much higher pressure! I didn't even know I was in performance mode before. Now it's making me sweat.
But I do it! I screw up a few notes, but I make it through. My back hurts and I'm all sweaty, but I did it. I can't help but think the rest of the course may take more than the month I've allocated.
I think I've also worked out part of the reason I'm having so much trouble with the coloured notes. I have this weird tendency to subconsciously assign personalities to things. I do it with notes in the music I learn – for instance, a G in a particular bar is old and wise, but a G later in the piece is a troublemaker. Sometimes I assign personalities or emotions to sections of the music. And I assign feelings to colours, which is where my problem's coming from, I think.
Pink, which is always the third finger, is fine. For some reason I have no issue with that one. But yellow, which is for the second finger notes, feels like a fourth finger colour to me. And blue, which is the fourth finger colour, belongs with my second finger. Red is a strong colour, so it should be assigned to my thumb, rather than green, which is soft enough to be a fitting pinkie finger colour.
When I mention this to Josh, he says it's a form of synesthesia, which covers all kinds of crossed wires in the brain that make you form connections like the ones I have with colours and music. I'm fighting against these ideas in my head every time I play, and I'm sure it's slowing me down.
Another interesting thing I notice is that as I play, I really feel like I have no idea what comes next. I'm not memorising the material at all, even though I've played it over and over. I have become slightly more familiar with a few bars, and recognise them when they come up—mostly sections where I kept tripping up on the same notes over and over. But I'm really reading the music. There's no rote memorisation here! It feels hard and I'm not playing super well, but I love the feeling that I'm actually doing this thing I wanted to learn.
Hand positions
My latest struggle is with changing hand positions. Lately I've been doing lots of lessons focused on new hand positions and switching between the ones I've learned. This is causing me two problems:
- I'm relying more and more on the colours of the notes, rather than learning their names.
- The app isn't helpful enough when I need to switch hands.
First, the colour problem.
I'm second-guessing the app's teaching style. Because I'm switching hands so often, there's no time to learn the names of the notes I'm playing, and the app doesn't encourage me to. To get through the lessons I have to rely on my knowledge of how the colours of the notes match which fingers I use to play them (I'm getting better at it, but still struggling with this).
This makes me worry that I'll become reliant on Yousician's coloured music and won't actually learn the skills I need to play ordinary sheet music. However, I'm trying to trust that those skills will come later and this isn't a terrible way to learn.
The other issue is switching hands itself: it's hard.
The app doesn't make it obvious enough when I need to switch. The on-screen keys change colour to indicate where I should put my fingers, but I find this really easy to miss.
The changing colours also happens at the last second, never giving me enough time to react. Sometimes I'll sit through a bar or two, watching the coloured keys to see if they'll change, only to see them change at the last second, forcing me to scramble and miss notes while I move my hands.
I haven't figured out a way to improve on this yet. I couldn't find any settings I can adjust, so it seems like it's up to me, but I don't know what to do about it.
The end of the road
Today I pick up where I left off yesterday, with a new song to learn. This is the one that's so hard the description suggests using practice mode, which tipped me off earlier that practice mode was a thing. Now that I'm up to it, I'm not much better prepared than when I skipped ahead to read its description earlier.
I get stuck in, taking the speed right down to 70%. When I still struggle at that slow speed, I try doing just the right hand, but the hand position changes are crazy.
I'm still struggling to know when to change positions, and I can't see any way to get better at this except memorising the changes in each lesson. That's not going to help me actually get better at piano, so I'm feeling frustrated.
I decide to check the Yousician support forums in case I'm missing something that could be useful. Unfortunately, I find the opposite: lots of people having the same problems I am. Other people agree the hand position changes are incredibly hard to get right, as they happen too quickly, at the last moment, and aren't visually obvious.
Other students are also finding the lessons are a lot harder in level 2, and there's a lot less explanation of "teaching" once you've passed level 1. It's nice to know I'm not alone, but I'm disappointed that things won't get any better as I progress. Lots of students seem to be dropping out in levels 2 and 3, but the few who are at higher levels say things don't get any better up there.
I feel quite deflated. I still hoped if I could get through one lesson at a time, I'd get better enough to understand the stuff I'm stuck on, but it seems my cynical suspicions were right: Yousician is teaching me to be better at Yousician, not piano.
After discussing this let-down with Josh, we decide it doesn't make sense to keep going with Yousician. The money for my first month is gone, but I can save myself the time and frustration of trying to learn piano by playing a game.
If you're a music teacher, I have good news for you. Apps like Yousician won't be taking away your job anytime soon. Maybe one day, but not tomorrow.
Teaching music, I've realised, like teaching any other creative skill, is complicated and difficult. It's even more difficult to do it with technology, where there's no dialogue between "teacher" and student, no feedback, no personalisation of lessons.
During level one of Yousician, I would do an exercise, fail miserably, and hear a voice say, "Well done, let's move on." I felt disheartened, because I knew I'd done a bad job, and I wasn't learning by simply skipping ahead.
A real music teacher, however, would have known I'd failed, pointed out where I was struggling (and maybe even why), and designed an exercise to help me overcome the struggle. There's so much in this single interaction that can't be programmed into a learning app like Yousician. At least, not yet.
I'm disappointed that it turned out this way. I truly hoped I'd feel like I'd improved my skills when this article was done. But Yousician's method of making me play notes based on their colour, rather than learning to actually read the notes, means I really haven't taken away anything from the experience that I can use to improve my day to day playing.
I guess I need to schedule those music lessons earlier than I'd planned.


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The group includes Colonel de Crespigny, Colonel Green (Sydney), Colonel Stawell, Major Kenneth Smith, Major Sherwin (Melbourne), Major Trethowar (Western Australia), Matron Wilson (Queensland), Major Lockhart Gibson (Sydney), Major Morton (Sydney), and Captain Graham (Sydney).
Photos by A.W. Savage. From The Sydney Mail, 29 March 1916.
Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny was my great grandfather. He enlisted in 1915 at the same time as another of my great grandfathers, Arthur Murray Cudmore, and my great uncle Wentworth Cavenagh-Mainwaring. My post about Arthur Murray Cudmore at http://ayfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/arthur-murray-cudmore-world-war-i_28.html covered their enlistment and voyage from Australia.
Daily experiences of the 3rd AGH were reported in the Nepean Times through correspondence from Corporal Gates.
From Corporal Gates. (1916, January 8). Nepean Times(Penrith, NSW : 1882 – 1962), p. 7. Retrieved December 16, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article86148792
On 4 November, Colonel Fiaschi, who was seriously ill, was evacuated to London and Lieutenant Colonel Constantine De Crespigny took over as Commanding Officer until the 3rd AGH left Lemnos for Egypt in January 1916. When the 1040 bed hospital closed in Egypt in January 1916, it had treated 7400 patients of whom only 143 had died. (From http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/5environment/nurses/third-agh.html)
Among those staff hospitalised on 6 November was Arthur Murray Cudmore.
The following photographs of the 3rd Australian General Hospital at Lemnos in 1915 are captioned with original comments by Lieutenent Colonel Sir Trent Champion De Crespigny and published by the SA Health Services Historical Research Group. From http://www.raamc.org.au/web/sahist/index.php?Lemnos the South Australian RAAMC History Committee
3 A.G.H. was landed on Turk's Head, West Mudros on 5 August 1915 …
… on a bare and roadless hillside—without tents or equipment, without water-supply other than the tank ships and with only one water-cart each, with no sanitary provision whatever and with little transport other than hand carriage—to prepare for the vast operations timed for the 6th.
Butler's official medical history, Vol I, p286 quoted by http://throughtheselines.com.au/research/3-AGH
This photograph has a special interest for South Australia, inasmuch as it shows the late War Lord in conversation with Colonel de Crespigny, of Adelaide, on Lemnos Island, not long before the evacuation of Gallipoli.
A SOUVENIR OF KITCHENER. (1916, July 22). Chronicle(Adelaide, SA : 1895 – 1954), p. 30. Retrieved December 16, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87307704
WATTLE DAY LEAGUE WAR EXTENSION WORK. (1915, November 18). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 – 1929), p. 6. Retrieved December 16, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59989826
FOR THE EMPIRE. (1916, February 5). Riponshire Advocate(Vic. : 1914 – 1918), p. 3. Retrieved December 16, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119571019