"My piano pupils took third and fourth place in the competition, " she said.
" After his trio's drummer left a kit in his basement, he "began splitting my time between piano and drums.
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At age 11, I was determined to learn to play the piano like my brothers.
"Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head, and I probably wouldn't have felt it, " Chynna Phillips told the magazine.
Apart from my classical training in piano, I have learned everything I know about music by watching other people -- many of them the best in their fields -- play online.
At New York's Apollo Theater, we went down to the stage and I played them "My Girl" on the piano.
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My contribution included writing the melody, playing piano in the studio, and arranging the string parts.
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Just as a race car driver might discuss the fine points of his engine, I had the hero in my novel "The Soloist" dissect the piano's inner workings in relation to a given piece of music: pedal action, tuning, hammers and bridge.
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I'd put my guitar down and walk over and play the piano in the bar when there's a bar scene.
"The best way, for me, always is to get away from the piano, sit in a place and hear it in my head, " he says.
" Trying to keep a sense of humor about the time constraints in opera, he refers to one of the last rehearsals with the cast and a piano (instead of full orchestra) as "my four weeks of previews.
In the next few days we held several long midnight conversation, in which she tried to convince me to ask my readers to each send her a dollar so she could buy a new piano.
And maybe it's because it got to the point during my teens where I just loved the feel and the sound of music in general, the piano specifically.
The lyrics for "Be My Baby" came to Mr. Barry as Mr. Spector vamped Greenwich's melody line on the piano.
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