plasticframes

I've been spending some time in Coffman Union lately, waiting for stuff, passing time, etc.

I just had prep work done for my first crown at Boynton. I'm waiting for half my face to stop feeling numb so I can finally get my morning coffee at the Starbucks downstairs. I love independent cafes, but they just don't have Pike Place, and it is the flavor I crave.

Anyway, there is a piano here, and I've learned something about it. Everyone who can play the piano, can play Fur Elise. It's excruciating if you have to listen to it every day, or four times an hour. But I think it's a good exercise. There are these arpeggios that are easy and expressive that people get trapped in, and they need to really focus on their way out of those parts to think ahead to the next part of the song, if they want to improve their playing and overall comprehension of the music. I think people who want to be good pianists work on this, but I think people who just want to play the piano will always be trapped in arpeggios. I never got past the arpeggios. And now I don't play piano at all!

It's a life lesson.