In about 1957 I owned an old beat up upright for a month or so. I had been playing the sax for about 2 years. My band teacher taught me the concept of picking the 1st 3rd and 5th note of the scale to make a chord adding 7ths and so forth.

We had a piano in the band room. One day I was playing the simple Fats Domino intro to "Blueberry Hill" and also the triplet rhythm, when the vocalist teacher was passing in the hall. I was in the band room alone.

She walked up amazed and asked me to do that again. After watching she wanted to try and could not play the triplet chords with the right hand and a simple bass pattern with the left hand. She was a super, let me repeat that, a super stride pianist.

She stopped by a week or two later and made me do it again and she still couldn't do it. She had been a piano player and vocalist teacher for 20 years or more. I had been fooling with the piano for 2 months. She just couldn't get the triplet rhythm and left handed bass lick going which I thought was simple. If it were difficult, I wouldn't be able to do it. She just couldn't feel it.

Everybody's different. That's why you see 10 year olds playing difficult classical piano and yet we have people playing for 30 years and still play everything on the guitar in E, A, D and have never gotten past strumming.

With me, it's trying to learn all of the tech stuff with recording etc, it's taking it's toll.

We all have certain things we can do. For example Gary and I can out cook and out fish all you guys put together with our eyes closed. Donny can out eat all of us. Fran's the ugliest guy here, but he's got the best looking women hanging around him and Dave can carry more buckets than we can.

Got em' again!!

Where's my laptop? Don't forget the soft synth, OK buddy? I'm polishing up the i5s. Boy it cleanded up like new when I put that Muratic Acid on it that I use to clean bricks. Acid doesn't hurt plastic, but I can't figure out why all that fizz and smoke came from inside of it. There may have been some extra dirt in side or maybe some cement.

Got em' again. That's twice in the same post! That's a record. Boy this is still a great day.