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Title: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: nightingale11 on February 01, 2008, 05:06:58 PM
you get it.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 common symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: viking on February 01, 2008, 05:13:54 PM
Hahaha what??


8.  Kicks your ass.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 common symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: m on February 01, 2008, 05:38:19 PM
Hahaha what??


8.  Kicks your ass.

And then

9) delete account  :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: allthumbs on February 01, 2008, 06:48:46 PM
10. You tattoo a keyboard around your upper arm.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: amelialw on February 01, 2008, 07:48:19 PM
do nothing but sit at the piano all day except to eat and sleep

Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: dmc on February 02, 2008, 01:03:05 AM
12.  Your spouse files for divorce (because you're too serious about it) and you miss the court dates because you're too busy practicing.  Years later you notice that the divorce papers are still sitting unopened on your piano collecting dust.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: cygnusdei on February 02, 2008, 02:52:52 AM
Plays Variations Sérieuses ....  :P
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: lostinidlewonder on February 02, 2008, 03:55:17 AM
Wakes up, plays piano, eats food at piano, goes to toilet at piano, when tired sleep on piano. When you dream you only dream about piano. When you speak its only ever about piano. Spend 20 years perfecting a single piece and get so overly obsessed over microscopic details that it scares you when you think about it so much that you must rush to a piano and practice for a few more hours to make yourself feel at ease. Wake up in the middle of the night, get frustrated you can't picture in your minds eye how a piece should be played so then you start playing on your piano again..... etc
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: tds on February 02, 2008, 09:12:52 AM
abit off topic, but really, what we think of something being " too serious" is often just right for those pros. we get it?
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: gerryjay on February 05, 2008, 04:00:03 AM
08 (not 15): doesn´t listen to actual music, because s/he is too concerned with her/his own interpretations to bother about anything else.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: Bob on February 05, 2008, 04:52:14 AM
Actually starves and loses weight due to practice and performance.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: mjin1 on February 05, 2008, 05:13:49 AM
I have actually sort of done that.

but within reason. It's very cold where I live at times, so I have skipped meals before to practice...

Thing is, I feel as though I have to wash my hands when I eat.. And the water sometimes doesn't get warm, even so it stills makes my hands freezing. Having cold hands really frustrates me when I am trying to practice..

so I just skip the entire meal all together. probably not a good thing.. i need some gloves.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: starpianist on February 07, 2008, 03:43:57 AM
People that practice three to four hours a day look like real slackers to them.
Title: Re: 1 000 000 symptoms of a too serious pianist
Post by: omar_roy on February 07, 2008, 08:27:50 AM
You go out of your way to buy "sterile" copies of sheet music (sheet music without dynamic markings), then play every possible dynamic permutation through each phrase noting those that fit best to the time period in which the piece was written, then continuously narrow it down until you find the most convincing version.  Then move to the next phrase, rinse, repeat.

You no longer listen to music from CD Player because you have a musical library in your head.

You find yourself mentally listening to a piece as it relates to a certain situation.