Child Prodigy Who Turned Into A Dumb Pianist

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I am involved in a Christian community church wherein every Sunday we always do worshiping God through song of praises and hymns. I was only 14 during that time when my pastor acknowledged me to be the church pianist. Well, basically i was not a good musician that moment. I just know pressing keys without any ideas about rules and scales and in fact I didn't even know how the triad of Bb is being played. Saturday night and we practiced the line up songs for worship. It took us 2 hours to review and rehearse the songs because of me with my sweat glands exploding out because of nervous. I wanted to back out but I could do nothing about it but to stay because it's a commitment. So I continued even though I didn't know to where my play would go. So the Sunday service arrived and the program began. The drum started to count, and it's already my turn to press the keys of the melody so that the congregation would start singing. The atmosphere is already set for worship with people closed eyes and raising their hands to feel God's presence. With my finger shivering and sweating, I started playing the intro. Quite smooth and nice however, when the song leader sang the first line, I accidentally hit the wrong key. Alas! The error was so obvious that the people started to open their eyes and look at me with confusion. Ouch! I was even shocked until I panic and keep on pounding the piano with wrong keys. The agony prolonged because I have to play the keys all the time since I have to do the sustain the music all over of the song. Well, the show must go on. They continue singing the lyrics with crossed eyebrows on their faces while me still pounding the wrong keys and playing the piano of tune.