10-6-10: The HSP Chairman's Fifth Assigned Blog Post

In the style of one of Docta Haus's short stories, "Girl":

Focus; concentrate; if you wanna play piano like Gershwin, you gotta get used to sitting on an uncomfortable wooden bench for an extended period of time; you gotta sit up straight; let your hands rest lightly over the keys, ready to drop one note or two or ten; breathe; the worst thing you can do is get al

l tense; don’t panic; just focus; concentrate; it’s really not that hard; no, don’t do that! What you think this is, a Team Fortress 2 server?; don’t mash the keys down like a cat hopping across the surface; let gravity work on your fingers, and let them fall onto the keys; don’t let your hands tense up; you have wrists you know; roll them so your fingers don’t have to move as far; there, now you’ve got it!; focus; concentrate; look at the dynamics; if the right hand has the melody back off on the left, even if it says to play it forte; ignore the pedal for now; try to feel what the song is supposed to sound like so you know if you mess up; and if you do mess up, keep going, nobody will notice or care; and if they do, so what?; just say you’re improvising, like Gershwin did; focus; concentrate.

By Docta Haus