when they say see for yourself they’re actually making a riddle
Even though the eyeballs are animated they are just eyeballs. When you look in the mirror you see your parts, eyes or hair or chin…but just parts, all anatomical. Just […]
Piano
after the paradiddles
Bill Kosinski, decided to follow his dreams. In September he quit his job at the gas station and flew from a small Manitoba town to Mali in Africa to work […]
switching sides
There is a brain thing I do at the piano which is when I realize my eyes are largely on the left hand or the right hand I try to […]
crown of accomplishment
There was a much sought after flugelhorn player whose students appreciated them for their insight and technical expertise. One student complained his best states of playing remained elusive to which […]
rabbit trick
Playing a repetition in the left hand, soloing over it with my right hand. At certain point what else can be said? Tried reversing which hand did what. Not as […]
music and flies
There are people you talk to who appear to be with you but you know they are not really present, drifting off somewhere, not listening and other people can be […]
just like…
Piano student told me she is so impatient about wanting to play new things that she plays the mistake over and over like a toddler trying to walk and falling […]
hola
I usually don’t teach kids but I agreed recently. When the lesson started I asked what songs they liked and once they fessed up about something I could find on […]
ronnie
My brother is coming to town, haven’t seen him in over 10 years. I owe him a lot, he showed my child hands how to play blues, beatles and beethoven. […]
murder
There have been murders on my street 3 nights in a row. I don’t know who is doing it but my guess is a squirrel. Two more dead sunflowers this […]