Jan. 8, 2025

Can Playing the Piano Instantly Change Your Life?

Can Playing the Piano Instantly Change Your Life?

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...

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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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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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she shared with us that she has called a couple

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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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sure that you get our books and help other entrepreneurs

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because part of the profits go to that. And your

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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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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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the sound least.

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sure how well you can hear it over the zoom.

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the black note lesson.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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He he was, you know, he hears something he can

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sit down and do it, you know, So you hear

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that kind of thing.

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Oh, my grandmother played by year. She never learned. Yeah, well,

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you know.

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And also in the old way of looking at things,

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playing by ear, Oh that's yeah, you don't know what

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you're doing.

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What do you mean you don't know what you do?

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Or playing it differently how about that I can't make

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a mistake. I got to play it perfectly. What's a

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mistake that you played to know differently? No, no, no, no,

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there's no mistakes. You just see. I mean within certain idiots,

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like if you want to play classical music and you

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want to play it the way it's written, which, by

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the way, I feel the composers never expected us to

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play it perfectly the way it was written. My feeling

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is that whether it be Chopin list one of the

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greatest improvisers of all time, he never played the same

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piece twice. Like, if Chopin will give him a piece

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of music to play, he was an incredible musician. He

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would read it perfectly the first time. He would never

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play it the same way twice. He was an improviser.

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He wanted to do it his way, and he would

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always He was just an incredible improviser. So who says,

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even with classical music, that you got to play it perfectly?

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All right, Well, that's an idiom. But if you choose

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to do that.

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Okay, you're going to spend five to ten hours a

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day practicing the piano and you go in to have to,

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you know, do that approach.

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But I'm saying that you don't have to take that approach.

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There's more ways to get to the top of the

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mountain than I have to learn sheep music and play

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classical music.

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That makes sense, so sunny. You know, there are a

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lot of people who may not have space for piano,

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because piano does take up a lot of room. And

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I get what you're saying. It is made of wood,

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it is made of you know, the life force it brings.

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It brings cheap. But some people may not have the space,

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are the money to buy that piano. What would you

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recommend for them?

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These elect of keyboards are a lot of fun.

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Might have one sit here if you can see this, Yeah,

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right there, there.

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Are a lot of fun and they'll get you started.

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When I had the school downstairs, most of your parents would.

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Buy one hundred dollars keyboard for the kids and it

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will get them started.

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But after a while it's super later you this piano

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here is this more console piano.

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This is only fifty seven inches wide and maybe thirty

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inches long this way, so it's like that and like that,

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so this is this doesn't take up much space.

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The keyboards don't take up much space.

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You could go to your local church, your local school,

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you can go to a friend's house, you can go

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to somebody else's house to play the piano. Because why

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I encourage people to play the piano is that. And

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by the way, pianos, especially these kind of pianos today

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in America are very not just very affordable, they are

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people have given them away. So because if let's say

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you're moving, they have this piano, they try to sell it,

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they can't, what are they gonna do with it?

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They give it away for free.

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So if you go on Facebook, Marketplace or something like that,

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you could pick up this kind of piano for a

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few hundred.

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Dollars, so it's very affordable.

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Then you could call a local piano mover and for

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a couple of hundred thouss they'll bring it to your house.

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Then you get two in the hundred bous on the

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five hundred dollars, you've got a wonderful piano in your house.

470
00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:14.160
So this is a whole new way of achieve acquiring

471
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:14.680
a piano.

472
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.720
But can you tell us a little bit more about

473
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.359
you said console console piano, Like tell a little bit

474
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:24.200
like you know, when people are going and looking for

475
00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:29.279
that piano and I know you also sell those pianos,

476
00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:32.279
so if you can share with us, you know what

477
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:35.079
they're looking for, what brand or something like that. And

478
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:35.880
also like you.

479
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:39.640
Know, sure, yeah, well of course I'm you know, I

480
00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:42.279
buy and sell these kind of pianos, and I ship

481
00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:49.440
them nationwide. I actually mostly was specializing in Steinway grants,

482
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:51.319
and I was shipping those worldwide.

483
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:52.559
I've shipped the.

484
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.759
Other pianos all over every state in the country and

485
00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:59.160
half the countries in the world.

486
00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:01.480
The worst way I had went to Abu Dhabi.

487
00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:06.200
I've sent them to India, I've sent them to Taiwan, Taiwan, China,

488
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.960
and Vietnam, South America, Canada.

489
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.000
I got a call from a guy the other day.

490
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.559
Uh twenty years ago, I sold a piano and in Alaska.

491
00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.119
He called me up. He's he gave it to his kids.

492
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.559
He wants to buy another piano for me.

493
00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:27.759
So but uh uh that said, uh, you.

494
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:29.960
You could get the usked me how to get a console?

495
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:32.279
Is that what you're saying? I forgot?

496
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:34.240
Do you get.

497
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:39.559
How to get a console?

498
00:30:39.680 --> 00:30:39.839
Right?

499
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:42.680
How to get right? So faces marketplace?

500
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.720
And uh uh would be one place, you know, the

501
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:49.599
local piano store, you know, and they have a lot

502
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.079
of really nice pianos too.

503
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:55.839
Uh yeah, piano these kind of playoffs are very affordable.

504
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.279
The American made pianos remained a little bit by hand

505
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.920
and they did different than the Asian eight pianos. A

506
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.480
lot of those are mass produced and they're not made

507
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.519
of the same materials. This wood was aged and sees

508
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:13.839
this is a Baldwin even though it's from the seventies.

509
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:18.240
Still great now. Age is not always relative.

510
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:21.359
There's so many Even if somebody called me up and

511
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:25.119
they had a Baldwin grand piano recently and they wanted

512
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.519
to sell to me for like five hundred bucks, so

513
00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:31.319
I mean new it would be five ten thousand dollars.

514
00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:35.240
Use market, you can get things very easily, but I

515
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:38.640
sell them nationwide well, so if I buy and sell them.

516
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:40.279
So if they wanted to contact.

517
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:44.119
Me either with to buy one or if they found

518
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:46.880
them locally and they want to ask me whether or

519
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:50.480
not it's worth it, and to tell them a little

520
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:51.279
bit about.

521
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.680
The brand and what they might do.

522
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.559
I'm always available on the phone to talk to people.

523
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.400
I love talking about pianos. I love helping people hook

524
00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.160
up to great piano. So if you call me I'm

525
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:05.440
sure I can help you on and I have friends

526
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.640
and dealers in contacts all over the country. So if

527
00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:11.720
you I'm on Long Island, New York, You're in Los Angeles,

528
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:13.559
I have a lot of friends and dealers I could

529
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:13.960
send you to.

530
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:14.880
I have buddy.

531
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:18.359
I have a buddy in Georgia, world class pianos, Dan Wilson.

532
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.000
He's got a couple of stories down there. He's got

533
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:24.720
all kinds of pianos Florida. Wherever you are, I can

534
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:27.880
help you hook up to a nice piano at whatever

535
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.279
price is reasonable for you.

536
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.599
So that said, everyone can get the piano today.

537
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.440
They're very affordable, and I think the idea is for

538
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:41.319
you to just start playing one, get access to one,

539
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:46.119
and it'll make a difference. But the reason again, start

540
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:49.039
with a keyboard if you want, because they're a lot

541
00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.799
of fun on a different level. This has that life

542
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:56.519
force energy thing going on there. Keyboards it's more than

543
00:32:56.599 --> 00:32:57.920
you eat. But you canna have a lot.

544
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:00.640
Of fun sounds in there. So they have instead of

545
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:02.839
just a piano, you have.

546
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.200
Bells, chimes, voices, you know, drums, you have flutes. So

547
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:10.799
that's that's fun in its own way. But I encourage

548
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:13.839
you to get a keyboard, just have fun. It'll add

549
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:17.160
a dimension to your life. You'll look forward to coming

550
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:20.240
home to play the piano. The piano is like a

551
00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:24.279
best friend. It just it wants to make you happy.

552
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:27.599
It wait, and every time you sit down at it,

553
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:29.240
it just you learn more.

554
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:32.920
And so piano is like a friend. It's always there

555
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.440
for you. It'll never abandon you. You'll it's there with you.

556
00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.119
If you feel sad, happy, glad, you come home, there's

557
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:39.680
a piano.

558
00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:41.960
You can sit down and have a few minutes of

559
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.960
joy and happiness before you leave for work in the morning.

560
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:59.200
You sit down before you go to bed at night. Soothing,

561
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.599
relaxing makes you happy, joyful.

562
00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:10.119
On different levels too, grieving sadness. I was both my parents,

563
00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:11.880
my daughter and my cat in one year.

564
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:13.760
Mm.

565
00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:18.320
Sorry to hear that, uh and and just that my stepfather.

566
00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:20.800
But life is so true.

567
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:25.519
But the piano has helped me co Yeah, was helped

568
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:28.519
me with the grieving process because I was able to

569
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.599
sit down and play a lot of music. Relative My

570
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.159
father always loved this song you know, I used to

571
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:55.599
play and you always brings your spirits up to My

572
00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:57.679
teacher used to say all the time that when she

573
00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:01.079
was a kid. Uh, her family noticed that whenever she

574
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:05.440
played the piano, she would improve her mood, so they

575
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:07.760
went out and got her piano. I have people calling

576
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.119
me up from all over the country. The children have

577
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:14.159
autism or various depressive states and stuff. Even when I

578
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:17.519
had my school downstairs, people would bring the kids in

579
00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:22.360
with various problems. They started playing the piano and all

580
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:27.119
of a sudden, because they've seen through research that the

581
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:33.400
piano is very helpful for organizing the brain and also

582
00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:39.280
for you know, just for improving math scores and science scores.

583
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:42.800
Because it's just something about the music and the beta

584
00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.920
endorphins that dolphamine. It's so positive that no people are

585
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:50.679
not looking at it from this perspective retirement, keeping the

586
00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:54.480
brain happy. There's a research study that was done in

587
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:57.320
a while back that if you play learn new skills

588
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.800
as you get older, your brain doesn't go through a

589
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:03.159
lot of that slowing down process. Well, guess what the

590
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:06.639
guy who headed up that research study, after he finished

591
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:09.960
that in California, the first thing he did was call

592
00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:13.039
me up. A boy starting my piano from me because

593
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.119
he always meant to play the piano. He was in

594
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:18.320
the sixties he felt very slowing down a little bit.

595
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:21.800
He bought the piano and he wrote back me years

596
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.280
later he just loves the piano. It's just helping him tremendously.

597
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:28.119
So I could go on all day on the benefits

598
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:29.480
of the piano physically.

599
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.920
This is this is very powerful, Sonny. So let's say,

600
00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:35.920
you know, vire neeering to the end of our show,

601
00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:40.159
thank you for sharing all the details. And as you mentioned,

602
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.599
creativity as an integral part of that relaxation and music.

603
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:48.760
Music is universal. So if people wanted to call you

604
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.599
or reach out to you, what's a good way to

605
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:53.239
connect with you.

606
00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:59.559
Either to my website Sonny'spiano Yoga dot com or they

607
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.880
could just call me directly six three one two three

608
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:07.039
five seven two two eight, or they could email me

609
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:09.559
Sonny's uh and all that is.

610
00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:10.280
On the website.

611
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:13.599
So if they go through the website Sonnyspiano Yoga dot com,

612
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:18.159
and they can also purchase the book, says Piano Yoga,

613
00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:21.440
all my contact information is in here. This is on Amazon.

614
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:24.119
It just came out and they could purchase this on

615
00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:24.840
my website.

616
00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:25.079
Tip.

617
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.920
So yeah, play that piano, be happy, enjoy, breathe, relax,

618
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.079
flow and enjoy with everything you do in life, and

619
00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.679
you'll you'll enjoy things a lot more, you'll be mud

620
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:40.480
a lot happier.

621
00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:42.400
And thank you for having me.

622
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:46.840
Thank you, oh absolutely, and what a way to get

623
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.880
our new year started right, folks. Start with music, build

624
00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.920
that creativity. Thank you Sonny for joining us and sharing

625
00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.760
with us how we can play piano even if you don't.

626
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:01.480
Thank you. The time went so fast, it's amazing. Thank you.

627
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.360
I really enjoyed me with you. Thank you absolutely.

628
00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:08.079
Okay, thank you for joining us, and thank you, dear

629
00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.719
listeners for joining us because without you, the show would

630
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632
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.079
twenty five the year that you want to be. And

633
00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:25.800
thank you one for making so technically possible. Take care

634
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:27.440
and be well.

635
00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.039
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