when i grow up
working on a new piece and while trying to balance left hand and right hand, i’m reminded of the the effort involved trying to train one’s mind or the assumption […]
Piano
teaching secrets
Sometimes new students asked her if she could just show them her secrets, like how does she play that passage or how does she make that technique work. It automatically […]
One Trick Joni
maybe it would be called a 12th chord. the cool sound that joni mitchell uses throughout court and spark is done by playing a 5th in the left hand and […]
the rules for getting there
again aiming for that space, where in order to cross the tightrope I mustn’t think and if I start to or notice my thinking, I fall off. get back on, […]
efish
Elizabeth Fischer scared me when I heard Animal Slaves in the 80s. Scared me in a way I rather liked, like first time hearing Pere Ubu or Klaus Nomi. Would […]
either or
Zen story about a monk in the 9th century that came upon a piano in the forest and wrote a song about the fact that everything is actually either physical […]
at the hop
it isn’t like they lean to left foot or right foot. each hop dual intention, one command. feels familiar maybe from improvisations. watching a starling hopping on the ground.
day in the park
A flock of birds is overhead. A piano teacher who looks like Meryl Streep and three students who look like the Thompson Twins sit in High Park having a picnic […]
talking to strangers
After the Board mtg. I walked with Anand to his place then down College from Grace, it was about 9:45pm. I passed an expensive men’s clothing store and heard piano […]
one sound
In this one country they teach piano by calling attention to binary conditions, yes no, conservative liberal, male female, right wing left wing, day night and ultimately left hand right […]