Jan. 8, 2025

Can Playing the Piano Instantly Change Your Life?

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Discover how piano playing can transform your well-being! In this episode, Divya Parekh chats with Sonny Stancarone, creator of PIANO YOGA, a mindful, fun, and accessible approach to piano. Sonny’s philosophy: it’s not about what you play but that you play. Learn how piano boosts health, energizes your spirit, and connects mind, body, and soul. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this episode will inspire you to rediscover the joy of music. Tune in for creativity, relaxation, and connection!

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Good morning, listeners, hope you all had good holidays, Happy

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New Year. We are in twenty twenty five and I

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sincerely feel that something's in the air and twenty twenty

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five is going to be great. So what are your goals.

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really important to have those goals in sight. And as

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you usually talk about kindness, I do want to share

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a story. So one of our audience and listeners, Marcel,

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was a long line. I mean, of course that's not amazing,

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but so she talked with the one agent, you know,

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they are agents who are helping, and the person was like, oh,

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you should have got here on time, and didn't say anything.

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And then she saw another person who was smiling at

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everyone very kind. She reached out to that person and

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said that, you know, could you please help me get

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through this line? I know I'm late, And that person

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walked her through and she was able to catch her

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flight to get home for holidays. So kindness is there.

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And for those of you who are looking to achieve

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those goals, even if you're looking to have those resolutions,

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and remember those resolutions, only ninety two percent fail. Yeah,

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only ninety two percent fail. And why am I saying

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that Because it's very very common and only eight percent

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get the resolutions achieved. So if you want to achieve

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your resolution, both of our books will do that. Make

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well being is super important and that's why we have

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got Sunny with us today. Who's going to be sharing

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Malcolm Sonny, thank.

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You very much for having me, and happy New Year

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to you and to your audience. And yeah, I have

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some very interesting things to share with your audience.

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The story's thoughts. When I was a child, I was.

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Crippled with a case of childhood asthma, and I was

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setting school records for days out and illness, and I

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was introduced to a woman Filipino chiropractor who taught me yoga, breathing,

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relaxation and stretching exercises, and after suffering for five years

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with the asthma, I was cured within a couple of

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months of doing a regular routine of breathing, relaxing, getting

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into the flow, stretching exercises to loosen my upper body

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and to learn how to breathe diplomatically. After I was cured,

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I realized from doing their exercises and the techniques that

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I had something here. So I kept on doing it

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and practically overnight I went from a kid that couldn't

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walk up a flight of steps to a champion baseball

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track runner of course country runner. No less on too

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when the Captain and MVP awards went on to Delphis

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on a track scholarship.

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And the piano.

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Same thing was interesting way I got into it because

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I wrote a book called Sody's Piano Yoga. Why Piano Yoga?

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Because my father was learning the piano it was born.

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So my earliest memories are falling asleep in the crib

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listening to him practice mozarts on the tenas and my

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whole side of the family, everybody played the piano, everybody

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played the guitar, everybody played instruments. So thus I was

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inspired to play the piano. So what happened was I

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eventually I went on to teach yoga, stress management, meditation

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after I came out of the Delphi, and I went

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on to play gigs in restaurants and clubs. Thus what

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happened with the piano yoga was I eventually always loved

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video was applying in the video thing. I started making

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video tours and my pianos for sale and put them

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out online before there was a YouTube, and suddenly I

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was selling pianos, not just locally table where I had

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my school, but I was selling pianos worldwide. Why because

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I was one of the first guys to use the

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video to market my business. So now I'm selling pianost

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worldwide and talk about transforming your life. I went from

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a little small music school a piano store to a

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nationwide and eventually a worldwide.

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Internet piano business, again one of the first. So from

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there it just kept morphing.

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And now I've written a book about this whole story,

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but also how to how to play the piano instantly

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with little and no sheet music and based on just breathing, relaxing,

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getting into the flow. A totally different paradigm for playing

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the piano. It's not a matter of spending years studying

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toime signatures, learning how to read uh and uh and

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uh and you know, practicing. I have so many different

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approaches to play in the piano here, Like I tell people,

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don't practice, play play the piano.

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What do we all?

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Right? So that's that's a You've had a wonderful life journey, Sonny.

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So tell us as to how you're top. How did

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you happen on piano yoga?

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The piano yoga thing came as a result of.

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Uh, my background also in teaching yoga and meditations, ch

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just management and and playing the piano. So why did

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I call it a piano yoga? People used to ask me, Sonny,

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they used to see me play to go show me

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how to play. But I don't want to learn how

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to read. I don't want to spend years studying talking

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show me something quick. So I got just thinking that people,

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you know, there was a whole I would say most

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people don't want.

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To sit down and spend spend years studying.

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Time signatures and learning to read. They just want to

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sit down and play. So I started developing little exercises

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and techniques to show them, and before long I realized

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that if you just sit down at the piano, you

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don't have.

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To learn to read.

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You could just sit down and start playing. The piano

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is so easy to play. In fact, if you can

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get around on a computer keyboard you can you already

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know how to play the piano because you already have

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the eye, hand coordination and intuition to play. So I

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started giving lessons in how to do this, and before

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I knew it, I had a whole philosophy based on

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my background and on how to play the piano because

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I had the studio right here, uh where I was

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able to teach, and and also just in the video tours,

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I was always giving people tips on how to play

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the piano quickly without learning to read. So thus it

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became called piano yoga Sonny's piano yoga, and there's.

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Nothing like it out there.

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Most of the methods on YouTube, they're still trying to

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teach you the old way of doing it, just fun easy,

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not fun, but more easy ways.

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Uh.

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My approach is totally fun. It's based on mindfulness, being

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in the here and now. And also it's very similar

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to soundback therapy tho it's looking at the piano from

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a totally totally different perspective. Instead of something you've got

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a master and you've got to suffer to play, it's

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something that it's just magical. It's it's it's healing because

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you can just set at the piano and noddle around.

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It's not about playing perfectly. It's about enjoying yourself. It's

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about having fun, taking its time. And this is necessary

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because right now, less and less people are playing the

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piano because they think that again, the kids, the kids

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think they got they gotta study, they gotta they gotta practice.

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They don't want to do that. They just want to

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sit down, and you can.

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You can just sit down and even if you want

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to play songs, you could learn a few chord patterns.

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And once you learn a couple of chord patterns, where

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you go so anybody could play well.

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You gotta do is sit down.

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Let's say our audience wants to get started well, and

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so walk us through. Because you say that you know anybody,

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especially like you know for a person like me, I

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don't have a sound, I mean a year for the

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musical sound. You mentioned that anybody can play instantly, So

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tell us how we can go about that.

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Okay, Well, one of the things that had away I

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would let's say I was teaching you. One of the

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things I would say to you is that we all

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have musical ability. It's it's a myth that you have

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to have musical talent to play an instrument. You don't

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have to have musical talent. It's not about being the best.

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It's about enjoying yourself. Matter who you're playing for, you're

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playing for you. So people sit down at the piano

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right away that they oh, that sounds terrible for people

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tell them when they're kids, you know you have no talent,

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don't you don't even waste your time? What are they

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talking about?

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The piano just.

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Like sound bout therapy gives certain frequencies that are very healing.

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So the idea that you have you might think that

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you have.

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No ability and no talent not true. It's just that

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you weren't exposed to the opportunity to sit down at

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the piano. So what I tell people who do right

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away is once they get away from the fear, the

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fear that they'll be laughed at, or the fear that

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they're no good, or the fear that.

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They have no talent.

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Once they get away from the fear, there is no fear.

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That's why I call it the breed relax, flow and

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enjoying mindfulness method. You're just The whole concept is to

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sit at the piano, breathe, relax.

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It's a form of meditation. It's an energy box.

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Try to just step away from Oh I can't hit

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the wrong note.

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Got none of that.

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It's all about playing. You playing your music, and if

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you want, I can chew chords. But basically I just

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tell people sit down at the piano. And what I

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usually do is tell them to just play the black

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notes and just flow long. I call it the black

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note flow lesson. So if you can get to a

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keyboard or a piano, it's preferable to have a piano

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because the piano is made of wood and cotton and metal,

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and that is like itself, draws the life force energy,

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very joys, joys.

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To cheat, it increases your cheap. The piano is.

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Just like something that's it's just it's just starting to

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be seen as a meditative device and tool.

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So what I'm going to tell people to do.

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What I would say to you would be, okay, just

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damn breathe, relax, you can just stretch a little bit,

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you know, I'll do a little listen, and we're just

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gonna play the black notes. Instead of looking at this

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is this is c shop, that's a minor. This is

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uh be forget about that. Look at it as black

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notes and the white notes, and we're just gonna play

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the black notes right now.

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We're gonna hold the damper pedal. The damper pedal makes

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the sound least.

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So if you hold the pedal just that, I'm not

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sure how well you can hear it over the zoom.

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But so I would just say, just why I call

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the black note lesson.

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Is because I'm just gonna play the black notes and

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we're just gonna flow. So just I would tell people,

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I would tell you to do this. Walk up the keyboard,

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get familiar with the keyboard, walk down.

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The keyboard, just get to know. Just play.

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And when you played just the black notes, you're in

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the keys shop and everything comes together.

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There's nothing that sounds like walk. So after you played

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single notes, you can play a few notes at a time.

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You get this kind of fact sound, and again, breathe, relax.

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It's very meditative, very calming, very soothing, relaxing. And now

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what happens, And don't think in terms of all that,

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I don't know what I'm doing.

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It doesn't sound right, I'm not sure. Forget about all that.

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Just sit, relax, breathe, And what happens is that after

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about fifteen minutes of doing this, your brain starts to

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release dopamine and beta endorphins, and those are the feel good.

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Chemicals in your brain, and that makes you feel happy.

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So after a while it almost pulls you into almost

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some meditative state, especially if you don't sit there and

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go I gotta play. I don't know what I'm doing.

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I can't I'm not getting the room. No, does it

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sound okay? Get the judgment. The analyzing added away. Just

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like meditation, you sit to meditate. The whole idea is

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to empty your mind, not to think, not to analyze,

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not to worry. It's a totally different approach. That's I

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called studies pim yoga because it's based on yoga principles

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of breathing and relaxing and getting into the flow. And

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I've been teaching breath relax flow a formula all my

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life through different modalities.

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I was teaching it through sports.

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I would I would run sports clinics where I would

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go to the schools.

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And I would teach the athletes how to breathe diaphragmatically.

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And as soon as they started breathing guy framatically, like

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let's say runners, runners are always going like this, breathing

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high chess leaders, as soon as they would breathe from

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the belly, there's they would instantly improve performance. In fact,

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I taught this as a stress management I taught this

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in the schools called the classroom fitness. If you just breathe,

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relax and flow, no matter what you do, it's going

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to flow easier, it's going to happen, You're going to

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have more fun because it pulls you into the present moment,

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pulls you to the present moment. So after you're doing this,

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so then you can just still make like like.

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It just comes together after a while.

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M h.

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M hm. So now what you've done here by doing

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this is not only he's starting to relax and it

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creates a meditative state, but you're you're starting to improvise,

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because what do you do. You're not you're not trying

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trying to do anything. It's just letting it happen. You're

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being in the moment and you're actually just be very

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creative and imposing.

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And creativity is very important school.

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Uh, it's it's it's my My friend and teacher Connie

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Crothers used to say that creativity is a biological function.

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Creativity is a biological function. It's necessary to be creative

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to express our feelings, release our feelings in a positive,

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productive way. So, whether it be the piano, writing, painting, singing,

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singing is very overlooked, you know because as stud as

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that's another thing you could just sit and sing, and

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people are so afraid to sing. Oh I can't carry

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it to Oh people tell me, they sayd who cares?

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Singing is releasing emotion.

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It's you know, I'm singing, breathing, I'm letting go chanting.

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Chanting and singing very similar.

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Or uh uh uh.

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This is all great for releasing tension and stress.

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You know.

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Also we all.

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Were walking around with varying degrees of stress and and

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tension anxiety.

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Sit down an instrument sing, uh if you're if you're

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feeling sad, it's a great way of releasing.

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Some blue feelings. You're feeling energetic, don't sit down, just

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do anything.

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Talking about the black notes first, what's like, how do

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you transition from the black notes to the notes?

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Okay, now you can do the same thing. And I

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have this in the book.

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I have these lessons uh outline and had it to them.

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And also this book is again I'm very innovative.

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Uh, it incorporates the videos.

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it has video links and paperback as two R codes.

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So like for the black note flow lesson, I talk

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about it, but then just like what I'm.

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Doing now you you can you can see the video

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of me showing you how to do it.

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So so after the black note flow lesson, then we

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have the white note flow lesson. You can do the

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same thing in the white notes and it's a different tone, different,

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say I'm different feeling just full, noodle around, just have

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a good time because we all have. Well that's what

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this book teaches you too. It teaches you how to

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connect to the musician within. You got, you know, an athlete,

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you got an inner musician. We all because every second

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there's a whole symphony going on inside of us. The

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blood is wishing, the heart is beating, I mean, the

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cells are there's the electricity going through the celves. So

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we have a whole symphony. And in fact, there's a

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meditation technique. They stick your fingers into ears and you.

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Just listen for the sounds. But we have this musician

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within that.

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If you stop thinking, and you stop analyzing, and you

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stop worrying, you can connect to that musician within the fact.

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This uh, some scientists have postulated done research that every

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song we ever heard is still stored in our sub conscious. Okay,

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so let me say that again. Every piece of music

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you ever heard is in your head. So if you

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again get out of the way, because main things to

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get out of your own way. If you get out

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of your own way, you can access that music. And

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if you're open and just breathing, relaxing, not thinking, all

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of a sudden.

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You're you're you're just noooling around and those songs will.

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Start coming out of you, you know, I mean, you know,

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themes like this thing.

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That's a box to Kanie.

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I think it's a C minor. I I never looked

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at the sheet music for that. I was noodling around

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one day and then all of a sudden, I was like,

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oh wait, or even just simple melodies like like this

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you're playing, Suddenly this pops out? Who said you can't

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play the piano? Everybody can play the piano. We got

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all this music inside of us. We have this musician

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within you.

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Just sit down. It's gonna come out of you. Just

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sit down.

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And also, you can't just sit for two minutes ago.

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You know what that is. That's the resistance factor. We

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all have this resistance factor in us.

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We can't do it. I can't do I'm afraid. What

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are you afraid of? Relax enjoy yourself. And so you

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have to sit there long enough for a don't mean

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and the beta Endorff is to start flowing. Just doesn't

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matter what you're doing, just sit and and it'll happen.

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It'll flow. It's it's just the whole, That's what I

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mean about it. It's a different approach to playing the piano.

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Just sit and play, play, have fun, don't be perfect,

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don't analyze, just sit see what happens.

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It will happen. I guarantee you it will happen.

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There are many great, great musicians and piano plays that

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never learned to read, never took a lesson, They took

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this approach. I had many students of mine that just

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came in and I explained this to them like that,

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and like.

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That, they got it.

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They got it, and suddenly they sitting there going and

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they're composer. I had other students who studied with me

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for a longer period of time without cheat music, just

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they like classical music. All of a sudden, there's like

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symphonies coming out of them, just connecting. A lot of

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the autistic kids have this access to that part of

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the brain, and that's where you see these autistic kids.

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They never take lessons to sit down. They hear a

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showpan piece.

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They play that show piece. I have a nephew who's autistic.

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