Playing Music

[Nazz]

You need supple fingers,
a slender touch to play music.
My fingers are fat, they shall listen.
You need finesse and fury to play.
You need touch.

[bennie2]

I like this.

I like how you can still be a part of it without actually playing anything. you can listen with your fat fingers

like HST's gonzo journalism... by being there to report on it, you change it, and are, therefore, involved.

listening creates its own music.

all the coughs and restless shuffling of the audience create the music for Cage's 4.33 - you're a musician, nazz.

[mtmynd]

insightful. succinct. nazzo... i like this.

[Doreen Peri]

Here's a couple I played for you

>> Carousel Stride (a simple little composition I wrote)

>> Kuhlau Sonatina Opus 55 #1

I really like the alliteration in this poem
fingers, fat, finesse, fury
supple, slender, shall

Fat fingers does not a musician make, btw. Anybody can play.

(hell, even I do it no matter how bad it is! LOL!)

Music is one of my favorite poetry themes. .... because good poetry.... IS music!

Thanks for sharing this, nazz!

[Lightning Rod]

It has always amused me that musicians fall into physical stereotypes. Even in grade school band, the big fat guys played the Sousaphone and the buff soldier types played the trumpet or drums and the skinny guys like me played the sax or clarinet and the girls played the flute.

The perfect guitar fingers are large but narrow on the tips. The perfect piano fingers are long and strong. The perfect horn fingers are nimble and light. Classical guitar players are very protective of their nails. Of course, the flute players have the best lips in the orchestra.

[Nazz]

... just something that strikes me in some of the photos I've seen of musicians' hands. Marksman 45 had a good hand avatar at one time. Yes, anyone can play, but it seems a slender, flexible sort of dexterity might be what it takes to excel. Bennie, that's great! I never thought of it that way-- never would have seen that, thanks. And Doreen, my sound setup at home is fritz again. When I get to my other computer, I'll listen.. L-rod, I played drums back in school and I remember those tendencies. Anyway, thanks all.

[Doreen Peri]

You're right about hands... in a way. I've always been told I have piano hands. I have very long fingers and a wide extension from thumb to pinky.... can hit 2 whole notes over an octave.... But I have known pianists who had chunky fingers and could barely reach an octave who have played very well! If you want to play, you can... no matter your hands... it's just a matter of making adjustments... maybe inverting a chord if you can't reach it... or rolling the chord.

Thanks for listening when you can. I enjoy playing. I'm not a concert pianist by any means but I enjoy it.

[SmileGRL]

"...you need touch"

i heard that...


ps. i played piano and did ballet in school. got the long fingers (my sister says i have practical hands...whatever that may mean), but not the pretty ballerina legs. maybe because i stopped before i started walking like a duck

[Lightning Rod]

doreen,
did I hear you talking about CHORDS?

SG,
being 'turned out' has numerous meanings but I've never heard it described as 'walking like a duck'. Maybe 'penguin' is better....haha

[K&D]

hey i loved this poem, succinct....seriously awesome, someone should turn it into a song

piano players have sexy wrist and fingers....mucistions duet together.


did someone say "turned out..." where? I just have that power over people i guess

[sweetwater]

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