10,000 times
Like walking down the street, we hardly consider putting one foot after the next. The brain coordinates everything while that main part of consciousness thinks about what flavour of ice […]
Piano
exposed
A PhD student was studying the 1000 year works of composer Hildegard Von Bingen when she came upon her old poetic axioms positioning music as a metaphor for all sound […]
new hood
Some people stay on the same street in the same neighbourhood, nothing wrong with that but some go to a new neighbourhood where they don’t know where anything is. Walk […]
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 […]
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 […]