“It must relax you to play music,” one of my Modesto acupuncture/Botox patients said to me today. I’ve always wondered what that means. For the most part, I think I disagree. But it’s not wrong either. I think perhaps it’s that very rare feeling when all the hard work comes together and then all of a sudden one loses themselves and becomes the music. It’s as if one takes their own sense of “self” and all of its worries and transforms that into the soul of the music and thus a sense of relaxation is achieved. But that’s a rare moment for me.
For the most part, it’s the frustration, challenges and the eventual achievement of musical understanding which attract me to the practice of piano.