Your deepest secrets

[m1469]

Please tell me your deepest piano, music, artistic, and life secrets here.

Thanks in advance 

[j_menz]

Not until your (very large) cheque is received and clears. 

[pianoplunker]

Please tell me your deepest piano, music, artistic, and life secrets here.

Thanks in advance 

......... I once played a Barry Manilow song ( and tried to sing it ).   Nobody else knows .

[kekepania]

How does one even have a piano or artistic secret?

[ted]

Aside from the purely pragmatic, such as passwords and so on, I try not to have secrets, game playing or strategies. By and large, I am WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get, and what people can see they can suck, as my father was fond of saying.

[m1469]

How does one even have a piano or artistic secret?

Well, that is a secret in and of itself, but this one I will give to you for free:  Vodka and Cigarettes.  Sometimes more vodka than if I just say "vodka and cigarettes."

passwords and so on

Do you think you could share a couple of those, too?

[outin]

Please tell me your deepest piano, music, artistic, and life secrets here.

Thanks in advance 

I'm not interested in facing the consequences of sharing the latter.

When it comes to music I don't think I have any that haven't been shared already...

[ted]

Do you think you could share a couple of those, too?

No, of course not, but I can share a good method which is not secret. As a former computer manager of a large manufacturing company, I found it necessary to remember hundreds of them because people were always forgetting their own. What you do is concoct a really bizarre personal, mathematical algorithm capable of generating a large number of meaningless passwords; simple enough for you to recreate a password if you forget it but complicated enough to make inference by human or computer too long a process. Then change the algorithm itself regularly.

[coda_colossale]

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[jazzyprof]

Please tell me your deepest piano, music, artistic, and life secrets here.

Thanks in advance 

Well, since you asked so nicely, I'll tell:
You're my secret love.

[ahinton]

Well, since you asked so nicely, I'll tell:
You're my secret love.

Not any more, it would seem...

Incidentally, when he was aged about 99, Elliott Carter was interviewed on a BBC Radio 4 arts programme by one Mark Lawson who asked him the rather tired and tiresome question as to what it was to which he attributed the secret of his longevity and continued productivity as a composer - and he answered "it's a secret!".

Best,

Alistair

[oxy60]

......... I once played a Barry Manilow song ( and tried to sing it ).   Nobody else knows .

Don't be ashamed Any of us that have played Chopin preludes have played Barry Manilow. (He only used one to create a hit.)

[chopinfrederic]

Chopin Etudes are difficult.

[m1469]

Well, since you asked so nicely, I'll tell:
You're my secret love.

Humankind naturally recognizes in each other what is loveable about life, humankind, and oneself, and this includes the desire to share what is experienced as a blessing.  It is unnatural to pretend this is not so or that it should not be so.

[ahinton]

Chopin Etudes are difficult.

That's a secret? Anyone's secret??

!!!

Best,

Alistair

[justharmony]

Hi m1469.  I don't log on often, but somehow stumbled upon your post.  I am curious and intrigued.  Do you have any "secrets" to share, yourself?  Wondering why you are making this particular request and what sorts of answers you are/were hoping for or maybe even expecting?

Me?  I suppose I have lots of things I don't tell folks terribly readily, though nothing's really a "secret."  Like, for example, my musical "pedigree."  I have one.  I don't like to share it.  Why?  Mostly because I don't feel like the labels are good representations of how I might play, or whether people will like it, or whether I'm somehow "worthy" (or not) of musical consideration, performance space, or respect.  Oh, I understand the curiosity people might have, sure, and some of the less cynical reasons why people might ask about my background, but, from a purely idealistic perspective, I'd like people to simply listen to me and decide with their hearts, bodies, and souls whether or not they like -or better yet, are moved - by what they hear. 

I suppose other confessions might include that on any given day I might just as easily be found enjoying a tune from sesame street (for example) or a bit of "old-timey" banjo music as enjoying the bliss of a Rachmaninoff concerto.  It's all music.  For different times, places, purpose, and moods, but it's all music to me.   

So.  What do YOU have to spill? 
JH.

[m1469]

What do YOU have to spill?  

We are all One.  The more evolved the entire human species, the greater the foundation for individual growth, development, and the higher the potential.

[birba]

THAT's a secret?!

[g_s_223]

1. Have a teacher.
2. If that teacher isn't working out (after a reasonable time) conclude that relationship (on good terms) and go to 1.

[m1469]

THAT's a secret?!

No.  But as you know, many people experience life as though we are all separate, and take any opportunity possible to shove another down as though it builds themselves up...

[minimax]

We are all One.

I am a 100 % with You m1469. For me there is no bigger secret than this. Nothing comes close to it by any measure. Some people know about it, but have never tasted the fruit of it and may wait a long time for it, as the road to the “garden” is not easy to find.

Much Love to all fellow travelers.

[j_menz]

Now excuse me while I go barf.

[justharmony]

lol j_menz...

[birba]

That's your secret?!  You barf to kumbaya?!
I honestly didn't think it had left the '60's.

[deidre]

I've thrown out music books when I'm struggling to learn new pieces, the frustration mounts...and I throw the books or sheet music away.

But, the deeper secret is...I then go digging into the garbage later, to retrieve the music, so as to continue the masochistic cycle once again.  

True story. Sad, but true.

Guess what composer gets tossed into the trash most often?  If you guess right, you've been paying attention to my complaints over him.  

[malaguena]

I hate Bach....

[Bob]

Now excuse me while I go barf.

*The purple sheep approve of this post.  As they are also One and do not wish to be put down.*

[j_menz]

*The purple sheep approve of this post.  As they are also One and do not wish to be put down.*

Of course they do. I run all my posts through the purple sheep before pressing "POST".

[chopinfrederic]

I hate Bach....

Yep his songs are difficult and full of ornaments......

[joplinfreak]

I wake up at about 3 in the morning and have a mad love affair with my piano occasionally, that's as dark and secretive as I get. LOL

[Bob]

*Bob thinks that white-faced purple sheep on the upper left looks pretty smug.*  What's his deal?  Just laying around lazily back there while the other sheep is in front, doing all work?


  Unless it has no eyes.  Maybe none of them have eyes except the one in the front.


*Bob feels bad for the blind, purple sheep.*

Although he does look like he's smiling, so I guess it's ok.  Poor blind, purple sheep.  His enhance hearing would only make that lady's vibrato that much worse.


Kind of looks like Jeff Goldblum was trying to teleport a Hostess Sno Ball and a sheep accidentally ended up in the teleporter pod too.  Chocolate and vanilla.  It makes sense.






You probably don't find these kinds of posts on other piano forums.

[swagmaster420x]

*Bob thinks that white-faced purple sheep on the upper left looks pretty smug.*  What's his deal?  Just laying around lazily back there while the other sheep is in front, doing all work?




Kind of looks like Jeff Goldblum was trying to teleport a Hostess Sno Ball and a sheep accidentally ended up in the teleporter pod too.  Chocolate and vanilla.  It makes sense.

LOL

[g_s_223]

I fancy roast lamb on Sunday - afterwards the sheep and I will definitely be One