The Playlist for Your Adventure
The Piano Instructor!
Prepping for an athletic competition is so freaking exciting.
I am a championship martial artist who had to change to fencing. Kenpo karate was fulfilling and practical and I was great at it.
The first cancer ended that.
Fencing is a martial art. The general idea is—stab the other person before they stab you. The sport is quick, smart, sexy and a lot of fun.
Like me!
One of the things I missed about competing is finalizing the playlist the night before and it feels so good to do it. I'm so hyped up.
In these kinds of competitions, there is some time between events. It's during this time when it's advantageous to plug into a preset playlist to keep yourself jazzed and ready for action.
For athletic events, I tend toward shorter playlists because the adrenaline makes me want to sing or bop my head to familiar songs and it's OK if I circle back to the same song a couple of times. This one is nearly three hours long.
I teach this to teachers and students:
The vibrations that are generated by instruments and bodies and tech that are deliberately combined to give you the feels are real. I have a degree in mathematics and we teach the number theory and calculus necessary to study acoustics, the physics of sound.
What you are feeling is real.
Athletes use this to their advantage. Nobody plays Satie at a basketball game is all I’m sayin’.
