PATTERNING AS AN EXPRESSION OF WHO WE ARE

I heard an interview with a classical pianist recently. He drew attention to the different aspects of memory involved in doing a recital. There’s the muscle memory involved in fingers darting about the keyboard picking out the notes, and this — for him at least — is a fairly automatic process. Problems come there . . . → Read More: PATTERNING AS AN EXPRESSION OF WHO WE ARE

MAKING BETTER MISTAKES

I tell myself that I like finding out I’m wrong, but it’s still a surprise when it happens. As it should be. Sometimes that’s a cause for minor amusement of some sort. I listen to a lot of jazz, and picked up some cheap CDs the other day. Two of them I was on . . . → Read More: MAKING BETTER MISTAKES