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So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Bill Bruford

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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Emphasis Facts Lot Thinking
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
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Acoustic Acoustics Music Play
So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Classic Holes Technique
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
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Best Gigs Practices Shapes
The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Instruments Kind Piano
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
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Home Phones Practice
I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn’t quite have the ability to carry them out.
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Ability Drummer Ideas Strong
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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Areas Rhythm Rooms
We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.
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Alcohol Awful Fear
At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.
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End People Privacy Want Whole
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
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Country Different Guy Hard
If I was hearing something I couldn’t do, I would figure out how to do it.
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Figures Hearing Something
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
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Awful Fear Rooms Sometimes
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.
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Discipline Essence Intention Sound
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that’s where I’m at.
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Entertainment Music Sides
So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that.
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Adding Harmony Learnt More Provided Rugged

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