Don’t Practice… Play!
By Paulie Felice
When I was a kid, I hated practicing piano. Hated it. It was a chore, plain and simple. Practicing meant sitting in front of an instrument I didn’t love, fumbling through sheet music that didn’t mean much to me, and trying to live up to the expectations of my teacher and my parents. And those expectations became my expectations. When I couldn’t meet them - when I didn’t practice enough, or didn’t master a piece quickly, or couldn’t memorize another stack of flash cards - I felt like a failure. So instead of being a creative outlet, piano became an experience in failure.
