Hey Peter. Hey, man. What do you hate about your own playing? Oh, well, it's interesting. You say that. I have a list here. How long is the list of things you hate about your own playing? Well, I felt like I had a pretty good self-image, but after making this list, I'm feeling pretty down. All right. We're going to try to build you back up. Please. And then we might cut you down again. We'll see how it goes.

Okay, good.

And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast. Music advice coming at coming at you today brought to you by OpenThe Studio go to openstiojadogad for deeper dive on all of this Peter what's going on man uh not much I'm doing pretty good yeah me too how are you doing okay I don't know how good I'm going to be doing after we do this episode because it's called called Things We Hate About Our Own Playing.

Right.

But we're not going to use the word hate. Hopefully this will be the last time we use the word hate. Yeah, let's not, let's not get like... Of course, it'll probably be capitalized in the title as well. It will be. It'll be super clickbaited, but let's keep it, let's keep it somewhat positive of work as we're going through there. Things that we're growing with.

Yay!

There we go.

Areas of growth.

Areas of growth.

Growth elements.

No, the idea, I think the idea behind this was that, you know, you and I, we've been doing this a long time. Yeah. We've, we've had some pretty incredible experiences playing. By this, we're not even talking about the podcast, but we've been doing this for long times too. or way too long. But we've been playing piano for our whole lives. How old were you when you started?

I got my first

little air organ when i was five and really took to it and air organ that dude is boozy a f

organ not air georgian uh oh air you know you know one of those little things that's got little cords on the side.

Yeah.

Cored buttons. And then, I mean, you plugged it into the wall and you made sound with, you turn it on and go, right. Man, your parents were so smart to get you something that was cool. It was my Aunt Barbara got it for me. Aunt Barbara. Yeah. God bless you, Aunt Barbara. I know. And but I was thinking about this a few, a few weeks ago that, you know, had these chords, major, minor, and dominant chords on the side. And then you could play single notes on a keyboard here. I was like, that's pretty much still what I do. Like, just these major minor dominant chords over here. And then my single note line. But you had to press more than one button to make the chords. Oh yeah, you could add like do triads together and make like

Polycore. But you had to learn to press more than one button to make the chords. Oh, yeah, you could do triads together and make like polychords. Yeah, it was fun. But then I started, I didn't start classical lessons until I was 10, which is a little late, you know. Oh, yeah. How about you? When did you start? I mean, I think I started when I was three, although there's some, my mom and dad, I mean, I was playing,

you know what it was, I have an older sister, big shout out to Nancy, Nancy Martin, and she was

playing piano and like taking lessons from a friend. It's funny because both my parents play piano,

my dad especially, is a really good pianist to this day, and so I heard it a lot, and it was like, it was the internet of our house. That older sibling, man. So can I just say, I just have watched in the last couple weeks. I rewatched The Last Dance, the documentary about the 90s Bulls with Michael Jordan. Oh, I thought it was about the disco era. That's a different one. It's called The Last Sniff. Anyway. No, it was this song, Last Dance. I know. No, I got a sniff. Mine was a cocaine reference. Okay. Then I watched this Arnold documentary on Netflix. Arnold. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Big shout out to what is the town he's from in Austria? Oh, I forget.

Ironically, he couldn't wait to get out of that town.

It looks like a place every American one that retire to.

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