domino wet leg
I gave a piano lesson tonight. In the past I’ve told this 9 yr old if she ever hears something she wants me to show her let me know. Tonight […]
imitation
One time my teacher played a certain motif, random octaves broken between thumb and pinky and later when he was out of ear shot I started imitating it. There was […]
putting on the ritz
Like being friends with a monster. The monster can hurt you, it’s bigger and unstoppable but it’s blind and you have vision. So you get a long, even need each […]
telling it backwards
I can’t remember too specifically what it was. She was small and tough and had no fucking use for a pianist who didn’t read music or play classical. They were […]
death and the clown
His wife died not long ago, sick for two years. After running into each other on the street, we reminisced. He said in the end things happened fast and she […]
everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
My piano is out of tune. It happened gradually and I am so used to it I didn’t notice until my mother who is in her 90s heard over the […]
time in rexdale
Working on major 6th chords. On breaking them up and playing them up and down removing the 2cnd highest note and transferring it to my left hand. It’s been a […]
the woman from hamilton
A student called me about their mark in another class and how it wasn’t fair. This wasn’t the first time they conveyed disappointment about particular teacher, a woman who often […]
monday
Still mulling over biologist Bruce Lipton’s book about cellular life. We are not the person in the mirror thinking we are the person in the mirror, we are 50 trillion […]
fully loaded
I have found a way to play some swift passages, a way to see within scales and utilize advantageously parts of each scale, the ones that fit easiest in my […]