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James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you' After the inevitable "How many hours a day do you practice? " and "Show me your hands", the most common thing people say to me when they hear I'm a pianist is "I used to play the piano as a kid. I really regret giving it up". I imagine authors have lost count of the number of people who have told them they "always had a book inside them". We seem to have evolved into a society of mourned and misplaced creativity. Do the maths. What if you could know everything there is to know about playing the piano in under an hour (something the late, great Glenn Gould claimed, correctly I believe, was true)? What if for a couple of hundred quid you could get an old upright on eBay delivered?

What if rather than a book club you joined a writer's club? I didn't play the piano for 10 years. Reading this on a mobile? The government is cutting music programmes in schools and slashing Arts grants as gleefully as a morbidly American kid in Baskin Robbins. Major Scales (Using the Circle of 5ths) - Music Theory. Paddle Tones. God is in The Neurons. God is in The Neurons submitted by Matt / download it in 720p, 1080p and iPhone formats at Twitter: Facebook: Reese on Twitter: Full soundtrack at (who did the amazing original soundtrack) Related links that can help in understanding God is in The Neurons: (Neuroscience related:) YouTube – Part 4 – Phantoms In The Brain (Episode 1) YouTube – Part 5 – Phantoms In The Brain (Episode 1) Where is consciousness? Share on Facebook Stumble It Post a comment Thoughts?

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