After playing the piano for 30 years, I figured it out!
Wow, tonight an amazing thing happened.I figured out my brain or
my hands or my natural beats per minute. When I play the piano
and compose music, it's in sort of a patterned way. I run on
automatic and I'm never sure what's going to come out. But the
speeds that I play at are always a mystery to me. I've tried
with metronomes in the past to figure it out but I couldn't.
Tonight, I did! My super-fast speed, when my right hand is going
a mile a minute, the music comes out at exactly 100 BPM! I
couldn't believe out exact that was. Then it got weirder. I shut
off the metronome and played something else for a little while.
I tapped with my foot to set the rhythm and then I turned on the
metronome. Click click click it went. I moved it down down
down... and then when my foot tapping and the metronome and my
playing were matched up, it was... 80 BPM. So, 100 bpm, then 80
bpm. Then I played a very slow, melonchaly piece. It ended up at
60 bpm. Then a whimsical piece with an oomm-pah-pah style.
Worked out to: 70 bpm! But 70bpm only was my natural speed in
the waltz style and no other. Why such exact numbers? I don't
know. I never expected that! It might explain why I always had
trouble playing musical instruments with others and keeping
their time. It seems as if I have my OWN rigid time that is hard
to break! The weird things you learn about yourself! Kenneth
Udut, age 36, Naples, FL USA
