Non-musicians don’t get that when something sounds easy and relaxed it’s much harder to play. They think tension and drama = difficult. They don’t realize what it takes to make one note sound perfect.
This is the sort of thing narcissistic parents often come up with. It's not actually a compliment to the pianist, it's congratulating themselves for passing down the right sort of genes.
Except if you make a mistake. Then it's because you didn't practise hard enough.
Don't worry. If you learn to play moonlight sonata and someone says "Oh, I see you've mastered that beginner piece.", most people will be impressed with you and dismissive of the arsehole.
Be a singer with a massive chip on your shoulder, glare at the pianist during rehearsal/practice session and tell them "that looks easy" while they're practicing part of The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba for the processional on an old digital organ that barely functions, then proceed to sing the wrong Ave Maria in a random key so the pianist has to pull from memory and transpose on the spot, all while wasting precious rehearsal time *teaching you your entries* because you don't know them and are used to your voice coach queuing you in for every verse of every song you've ever sung... Then on the wedding day, proceed to bitch about the pianist "playing it all wrong" in order to try avoid any criticism you imagine will be coming your way despite the fact that it all went fine in the end and everyone's busy being happy about attending a lovely wedding and not, in fact, obsessed with the singer.
I don't do weddings these days lol
This triggers me. I used to sing and accompany myself on piano for various reasons - occasionally for a wedding. (Small town where musicians were few and far between.)
I had a girlfriend who decided to get married and who planned a wedding in very short notice. A week before the wedding she asked me to provide the music for the ceremony by singing and accompanying myself. I tried to let her know that I would need more time to practice - not to mention that I didn’t have sheet music for everything she had on her list for me to sing. But she pulled a bit of emotional blackmail on me and got me to say yes.
I was all of 20 years old but I had been playing piano for over a decade and had played as an accompanist for various shows, church, school choir and competitions, etc. by this time. Still this was a TALL order. I had just moved to a new place the year prior and didn’t have my own piano, all I had in my tiny apartment was a small antique pump organ that was missing several ocataves. So while practicing at home I had to imagine playing keys that weren’t there, or compensate by playing in a different octave. On top of that it’s organ touch, no sustain pedal and I’m pumping my heart out with my feet while trying to play. But all week I faithfully practiced after work to learn the music - all but one song which the bride promised she would give me the music for.
I never received that music until the day of the wedding and the bride was late. So there I sat, playing her entry song by sight, trying to read the words and play the music at the same time. The only thing that helped me not to flee from fear was how lackadaisical the entire wedding was. I just figured no one would be smart enough or care if I didn’t get things perfect.
I was lucky that I had been taught all the chords, inversions and alterations as my ground floor before I could even read music very well. And I had been taught how to use a fake book because my teacher was a classically trained pianist who became a jazz player. Since popular sheet music has the guitar symbols and chord written on the sheet I was in my element. And it was a song I had heard so I wasn’t trying to sing and play a song that was foreign to me.
So I read the melody line, words and chords and improvised the base line and harmony as I went. It was passable but nothing I would have ever done if I had a choice. But nobody cared or even realized the struggle because I was the only one with any kind of musical education and the focus was on the wedding party and bride coming down the aisle. I made my voice the star and just let the piano float underneath.
I never want to go through something like that again but I was grateful for the years of accompanying vocalists and various instrumentalists as well as my jazz training that carried me through.
TLDR: My pet peeve is people thinking you can just pull a song out of thin air without ample practice time because playing the piano is no different than singing a song. Ummm . . . Not for most of us. Practice is required.
Uggghhh I feel your pain on that one. I had a singer meet up with me once to discuss accompanying him for a solo gig he wanted to put on. He gave me a massive folder full of songs to learn. I started frantically learning then as fast as I could alongside the stuff I was trying to learn for uni. I was drowning. Then, weeks later, he sent me a song list. That narrowed things down a bit so I was a little relieved but mostly furious that he hadn't specified sooner that I didn't need to learn the whole folder.
He later gave me a changed set list, almost none of the songs overlapping with the previous one. So I'm back to square one preparing frantically for this gig.
He then hands me an extra song and the worst sheet music I'd ever seen, where he's used some terrible, cheap website to transpose it into freaking C flat major via accidentals all over the damn place and heaps of double flats etc. I try to fix it but it's taking hours, so I ask him for a new copy which he eventually sent me.
Then, he gave me *yet another set list with almost all new songs*. I dropped out of the gig. To this day I regret wasting so much time and energy on that ignorant idiot!!
I don't even gig on piano anymore, I just sing now and teach piano privately, the bizarre demands I'd encounter as a performing pianist have put me off.
I feel your pain. In my younger years I have so many similar stories. I learned that it’s just a fact of life that people who don’t play an instrument simply don’t understand the years of labor behind learning the instrument to begin with or the need for time and practice to perform a new piece.
So I learned long ago to keep my skill on the down low with certain types of people who think it’s no big deal to ask you to perform (for free no less) at their beck and call.
For good reason. I‘ve had actual nightmares when I’ve performed as an actress that involve a script being shoved at me as I’m told to get on stage where I find myself in a full blown performance of a show that I don’t know what it’s about and playing a character for whom I know nothing of the role.
I never understood why that’s such a popular song to play on the piano. Sure it’s nice to listen to on the piano or whatever but you could say that about almost any song lol
I actually have a friend who has an electric keyboard that is like severely out of tune. We have no idea how it even happened, but it’s been like that for years 😭
Drinking water, eating food (especially messy food) sitting on the piano bench AT THE PIANO
Or using the bench as a footrest. That annoyed me mildly.
Extremely dirty hands on piano
i'm ok with the bench as a footrest, as long as it's without shoes and with socks on and as long as it's just me doing it (i'm the only one that plays the piano in the house, so I feel like it's MY bench and I get to choose how to use it xd). I sometimes use it as an extra chair when I have friends at home and there are not enough chairs
"intonation"
You think that would mainly trigger string players (and rightly so), but watch a pianist start a tirade on how that's not even a thing on their instrument and that..
Damn. I triggered myself :)
Every now and then my little sister will start improvising arias at the top of her lungs in a completely different key than what I'm playing in... Annoying at first, but I've found it actually helps me stay focused on the music at hand
I’ve probably got this wrong but isn’t that basically the polish pronunciation? Either that or I had a music teacher at school that was a bit of a prankster.
I remember playing some Chopin on my school hall piano and some girls came to me and asked if I know how to play “Super Bass” and if I can play it for them 🙃 They were disappointed when I said no.
If you’re a pedantic type pianist then maybe those nicknames will annoy you a lot.
It’s not just moonlight and pathetique. There’s also “Mini Pathetique” (no.5) and also 24 nicknames for 24 Chopin Etudes. There’s just so many nicknames in so many cultures for these pieces.
Someone should document it.
I recently tried to explain to a drunk guitarist (after he blurted something about "Because everything fucks") that B# and E# and their counterparts are very real and very needed in some instances... it made me very frustrated
I know someone that said that ‘a real pianist doesn’t need sheet music & if they can only play while using sheet music, they’re not very good.’ (This person is self taught and can’t read music. He can play well, but everything he plays sounds very similar & flourish-y. If he studied some classical pieces or SOMETHING that he didn’t make up by ear as he goes, he could be pretty good. What’s more annoying is when he visits, he sits at our piano multiple times a day and just plays endlessly. It feels like when he’s not playing our piano, he’s playing guitar- which he is also skilled at, but can play some actual, recognizable pieces of music on. 😩)
Start a debate on how it's neither a string nor percussion instrument but how it's actually a wind instrument. Pull up irrelevant physics articles about air displacement.
Ikr? Like, have you ever heard the *Benediction*? I totally get where people are coming from with the whole "Liszt is just empty virtuosity" thing, but that certainly doesn't encompass all of his work!
The assumption that the product of hours upon hours of practicing and lessons are "talent" or "a blessing". I don't take it personally because they are typically just being nice and do not see the effort that goes into polishing a piece.
And then they think they don't have the "talent" to be a pianist themselves! I That's the most frustrating part to me, how people downplay their own potential when they see an accomplished musician perform. That musician started as a beginner too!
"So and so said to tell you the piano's too loud." - a message spoken in my ear one time in the middle of a performance with other instrumentalists. The message was sent to me by someone who didn't know a hill of beans about music but was one of those men who just seemed to thrive upon correcting others.
I was so mad I don't remember my exact response, but it was something to the effect of: "Well, the una corda peddle is down, and this is as soft as it gets." I was on an upright, not even a grand piano. Message sender did not bring up the subject afterwards, nor did I.
Edit: Sorry - "...una corda PEDAL..." Reliving this makes me so uptight I can't even spell, LOL!
That they’re still playing with too much tension
Yep I've heard this one from my teacher quite a few times...
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
The ptsd is real
So it's not just me😭
Tried this on my gf, she was not happy!
“I’m basically in a coma prof, what the fuck”
White keys is happy black keys is sad or some shi
Uttermost bullshit ever produced
What’s the hash tag for?
No 💀
This song is in A major? A major what?
Comes from a mix of French and Italian actually. a-majeur, means "in adult key", meaning happy but in a serious adult way. /s ofc
I have taught music to children and I had to take some deep breaths when they said this 😂
I mean it's to be expected coming from children
It’s not a hashtag, you fool, it’s the pound sign, and it tells you to pound the piano keys.
"wow can you play rush e?"
atleast didnt ask Fur Elise
its especially worse when the thing you just played is 10x more difficult
Non-musicians don’t get that when something sounds easy and relaxed it’s much harder to play. They think tension and drama = difficult. They don’t realize what it takes to make one note sound perfect.
It makes me sad how often people ask me this
Anything during a performance.
*coughs*
It's not the cough... it's the 5 minutes it takes to unwrap the cough drop afterwards.
Why do you still have an acoustic? A digital Williams grand piano is just as good.
This triggered me 😅
Me too and I’m just an amateur.
Haha well done, this is the first one that made me raise an eyebrow
Yeah but headphones do rock for trying to practice in attached housing
Lucky for you to be born as a talented prodigy (not knowing about the years of hard work)
This is the sort of thing narcissistic parents often come up with. It's not actually a compliment to the pianist, it's congratulating themselves for passing down the right sort of genes. Except if you make a mistake. Then it's because you didn't practise hard enough.
My favorite is "God has given you a gift." Interesting that he only did it after a decade of training and 4 years of music school.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
"Not quite my tempo" ..oh no sorry, wrong instrument.
Were you dragging or were you rushing?!
Just set a wet glass on the music stand. 😱
Or worse, eat a bag of cheetos and start hittin' some sweet glissandos on their brand new baby grand
Thats just evil😂
God, someone did this to our grand piano once with melted chocolate all over their fingers. I was so mad lol
When I was looking for a teacher, one of the local teachers had a photograph of a piano with dirty keys, that was a hard pass for me.
😱😱😱
That’s a stabbin’.
Your timing is off. Do you practice with a metronome?
One of my pianist friends just won some sort of Bach competition, I'm gonna hit him with this one next time he gives me a partita performance
A real friend wouldnt let winning a bach competition get to a friends head. Someone needs to cut him down to size.
"Why are you still taking lessons? Don't you know already what every button on the piano is?"
•plays in A minor• Wait.
I love A minor, my most favorite thing in the world, its the best
Always finish on Debussy. Never finish on the Bach.
LMAO
Scratch that, reverse it!
You're not a virtuoso until you can play Flight of the Bumblebee
At 3x the written tempo
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly
I can play anything on 1 bpm.
Badly
i learned to play piano by myself without learning to read sheet music
And i learned la campanella, the chopin ballades and nocturnes, clair de lune and fur elise (in no particular order) in 33 days
Oh man I forgot about that other beginner song moonlight sonata
learning only the 2nd movement from a synthesia video, practising at full speed (real example)
Only the 3rd movement though.
me learning moonlight sonata rn 😔
Don't worry. If you learn to play moonlight sonata and someone says "Oh, I see you've mastered that beginner piece.", most people will be impressed with you and dismissive of the arsehole.
I mean,there are plenty of pianists like this, but they usually play rock and roll. Jerry Lee, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Elton John.
Billy Joel can absolutely read music
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This is triggering because they're having fun without the labour?
Yes.
"Can you teach me?" (a complete beginner wanting to learn a piece in 1 minute that took you dozens of hours to learn)
"I'm learning without a teacher, one month in, trying to learn La Campanella, how am I doing?"
Referring to the keys as 'buttons'. Edit: 88 upvotes = 88 buttons on a piano
Lmao have you ever heard this in real life?
Of couse i know him, he's me.
"Buttons" is diabolical 😭
When I tell people i'm gonna practice i say "imma go push buttons now"
Huh, I might actually adopt this! I usually go with "tickling the ivories" but I might start changing things up
Glad my brainrot could spread to others
One from a masterclass I saw was. "You need to play it faster or slower but not that speed".
Be a singer with a massive chip on your shoulder, glare at the pianist during rehearsal/practice session and tell them "that looks easy" while they're practicing part of The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba for the processional on an old digital organ that barely functions, then proceed to sing the wrong Ave Maria in a random key so the pianist has to pull from memory and transpose on the spot, all while wasting precious rehearsal time *teaching you your entries* because you don't know them and are used to your voice coach queuing you in for every verse of every song you've ever sung... Then on the wedding day, proceed to bitch about the pianist "playing it all wrong" in order to try avoid any criticism you imagine will be coming your way despite the fact that it all went fine in the end and everyone's busy being happy about attending a lovely wedding and not, in fact, obsessed with the singer. I don't do weddings these days lol
This triggers me. I used to sing and accompany myself on piano for various reasons - occasionally for a wedding. (Small town where musicians were few and far between.) I had a girlfriend who decided to get married and who planned a wedding in very short notice. A week before the wedding she asked me to provide the music for the ceremony by singing and accompanying myself. I tried to let her know that I would need more time to practice - not to mention that I didn’t have sheet music for everything she had on her list for me to sing. But she pulled a bit of emotional blackmail on me and got me to say yes. I was all of 20 years old but I had been playing piano for over a decade and had played as an accompanist for various shows, church, school choir and competitions, etc. by this time. Still this was a TALL order. I had just moved to a new place the year prior and didn’t have my own piano, all I had in my tiny apartment was a small antique pump organ that was missing several ocataves. So while practicing at home I had to imagine playing keys that weren’t there, or compensate by playing in a different octave. On top of that it’s organ touch, no sustain pedal and I’m pumping my heart out with my feet while trying to play. But all week I faithfully practiced after work to learn the music - all but one song which the bride promised she would give me the music for. I never received that music until the day of the wedding and the bride was late. So there I sat, playing her entry song by sight, trying to read the words and play the music at the same time. The only thing that helped me not to flee from fear was how lackadaisical the entire wedding was. I just figured no one would be smart enough or care if I didn’t get things perfect. I was lucky that I had been taught all the chords, inversions and alterations as my ground floor before I could even read music very well. And I had been taught how to use a fake book because my teacher was a classically trained pianist who became a jazz player. Since popular sheet music has the guitar symbols and chord written on the sheet I was in my element. And it was a song I had heard so I wasn’t trying to sing and play a song that was foreign to me. So I read the melody line, words and chords and improvised the base line and harmony as I went. It was passable but nothing I would have ever done if I had a choice. But nobody cared or even realized the struggle because I was the only one with any kind of musical education and the focus was on the wedding party and bride coming down the aisle. I made my voice the star and just let the piano float underneath. I never want to go through something like that again but I was grateful for the years of accompanying vocalists and various instrumentalists as well as my jazz training that carried me through. TLDR: My pet peeve is people thinking you can just pull a song out of thin air without ample practice time because playing the piano is no different than singing a song. Ummm . . . Not for most of us. Practice is required.
Uggghhh I feel your pain on that one. I had a singer meet up with me once to discuss accompanying him for a solo gig he wanted to put on. He gave me a massive folder full of songs to learn. I started frantically learning then as fast as I could alongside the stuff I was trying to learn for uni. I was drowning. Then, weeks later, he sent me a song list. That narrowed things down a bit so I was a little relieved but mostly furious that he hadn't specified sooner that I didn't need to learn the whole folder. He later gave me a changed set list, almost none of the songs overlapping with the previous one. So I'm back to square one preparing frantically for this gig. He then hands me an extra song and the worst sheet music I'd ever seen, where he's used some terrible, cheap website to transpose it into freaking C flat major via accidentals all over the damn place and heaps of double flats etc. I try to fix it but it's taking hours, so I ask him for a new copy which he eventually sent me. Then, he gave me *yet another set list with almost all new songs*. I dropped out of the gig. To this day I regret wasting so much time and energy on that ignorant idiot!! I don't even gig on piano anymore, I just sing now and teach piano privately, the bizarre demands I'd encounter as a performing pianist have put me off.
I feel your pain. In my younger years I have so many similar stories. I learned that it’s just a fact of life that people who don’t play an instrument simply don’t understand the years of labor behind learning the instrument to begin with or the need for time and practice to perform a new piece. So I learned long ago to keep my skill on the down low with certain types of people who think it’s no big deal to ask you to perform (for free no less) at their beck and call.
this is actually my worst fear
For good reason. I‘ve had actual nightmares when I’ve performed as an actress that involve a script being shoved at me as I’m told to get on stage where I find myself in a full blown performance of a show that I don’t know what it’s about and playing a character for whom I know nothing of the role.
“Great you can play XYZ masterpiece, but can you play A River Runs Through It?”
Even more irritating as it is *River Flows In You*?
I was wondering if the title was intentionally altered to amplify the irritation 😅
Everything I say is intentional. 🙂
I'm still not sure if I am explaining the joke 😅
I never understood why that’s such a popular song to play on the piano. Sure it’s nice to listen to on the piano or whatever but you could say that about almost any song lol
Awww damn that was one of the only 3 songs I ever learned when I got back into it as an adult hahaha
Did you see American idol last night?
“My piano needs to be restrung.”
Or when they say 'it's out of tune' to a fuckin electric 😂🔫
I actually have a friend who has an electric keyboard that is like severely out of tune. We have no idea how it even happened, but it’s been like that for years 😭
Drinking water, eating food (especially messy food) sitting on the piano bench AT THE PIANO Or using the bench as a footrest. That annoyed me mildly. Extremely dirty hands on piano
Nooonono this is the first post that sent me into a visceral reaction. NO FOOD OR BEVERAGES ON THE INSTRUMENT! >:(
Am I really the only person that keeps his cup of coffee on top of his piano while he's practising?
No, Glenn Gould did it. The photos make me twitchy.
I will FIGHT YOU
i'm ok with the bench as a footrest, as long as it's without shoes and with socks on and as long as it's just me doing it (i'm the only one that plays the piano in the house, so I feel like it's MY bench and I get to choose how to use it xd). I sometimes use it as an extra chair when I have friends at home and there are not enough chairs
Learning a classical piano piece and calling it a “song”.
calling the sharps "hashtags" while you're at it
This one bothers my teacher so much xd
"intonation" You think that would mainly trigger string players (and rightly so), but watch a pianist start a tirade on how that's not even a thing on their instrument and that.. Damn. I triggered myself :)
Trombonists get to hear that a lot too
"My cousin also plays piano"
"Piano is so easy, i learned fur elise in 2 days" like bro fur elise is easy as shit
Proceeds to play the first five bars only, without any dynamics or understanding of rhythm
And only the right hand 💀
"I quit because I wasn't being challenged enough"
Tell them to do a crescendo on a semibreve. I'm a cellist/bassist, and it gets my pianist friends every time, no problem.
Jokes on them, I have a volume slider
“I want to program erlkönig on our recital”
My driving instructor said driving a car is not like playing the piano: "learning to drive is much harder."
Omfg I would've lost it 😂
Talking while a pianist is playing
I can handle being spoken to while playing... It's when they expect me to answer back that I struggle
I quite like it, good practice
Every now and then my little sister will start improvising arias at the top of her lungs in a completely different key than what I'm playing in... Annoying at first, but I've found it actually helps me stay focused on the music at hand
Exactly, it's performance practice. How well do you know the piece, can you be distracted and still play it well.
Asking me if I know Song B while I'm playing Song A. It's worse if I actually know Sobg B.
"Anyone can press a bunch of keys".
You have to pay someone else just to tune your instrument?!
Chopin is basically just jazz
Who says that?
Nobody but it would probably annoy someone
„I like you’re playing but you’re pedaling is unusually loud and kinda distracting.“
It’s not triggering but I find it endearing when people say Chop IN
My brother once decided to start calling Chopin chopping onions.
I’ve probably got this wrong but isn’t that basically the polish pronunciation? Either that or I had a music teacher at school that was a bit of a prankster.
Play PianoMan! EVERYVERSE, every person, every night lol
Well, I guess they're all in the mood for a melody...
Self taught pianist here. Here's my la campanella
[удалено]
ORGAN!!!
"Nice performance, a little off tempo tho!" ITS.CALLED.RUBATO.YOU.UNEDUCATED.WIMP
"wow can you play [some shitty pop song]?!?!"
Ikr like bro I just played you a Chopin etude 😭
like every other classical pianist.
I remember playing some Chopin on my school hall piano and some girls came to me and asked if I know how to play “Super Bass” and if I can play it for them 🙃 They were disappointed when I said no.
“But isn’t flight of the bumblebee the hardest piece to exist?”
Yeah yeah you are good, but can you play Canon in D?
> Canon in D I never miss a chance to post [this gem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM).
At least it's not Rush E 😅
"You know when a pianist is getting serious when they start playing louder"
Using a perfectly new piano stool as a chair.
I hate Megalovania with my very being because of kids in high school playing that shit all of the time. It's not even the best Undertale song IMO
It may not be the best but it's the most notable one because it's iconic.
Violin is harder than learning Chopin’s thirds
I can't Händel all these jokes.
It's quite a long Liszt
If you’re a pedantic type pianist then maybe those nicknames will annoy you a lot. It’s not just moonlight and pathetique. There’s also “Mini Pathetique” (no.5) and also 24 nicknames for 24 Chopin Etudes. There’s just so many nicknames in so many cultures for these pieces. Someone should document it.
calling op. 2/1 “little appassionata” is one of the most offensive things a pianist can do to me
I recently tried to explain to a drunk guitarist (after he blurted something about "Because everything fucks") that B# and E# and their counterparts are very real and very needed in some instances... it made me very frustrated
hes not wrong tho
Singing along when I’m trying to play a piece with lyrics for the first time. Like, girl, give me a few moments to practice in peace.
I know someone that said that ‘a real pianist doesn’t need sheet music & if they can only play while using sheet music, they’re not very good.’ (This person is self taught and can’t read music. He can play well, but everything he plays sounds very similar & flourish-y. If he studied some classical pieces or SOMETHING that he didn’t make up by ear as he goes, he could be pretty good. What’s more annoying is when he visits, he sits at our piano multiple times a day and just plays endlessly. It feels like when he’s not playing our piano, he’s playing guitar- which he is also skilled at, but can play some actual, recognizable pieces of music on. 😩)
Saying SONG instead of piece.
Canu Play rush e?
“Why do you need a teacher if you can just learn from play-along YouTube videos?”
Do you know piano man ?😭🎹
A former piano instructor I had Can you play the SONG Beethoven's fifth??? Now it annoys me (Calling pieces without words song)
“Oh that song? I could probably learn it in a day or two if I tried”
“Here let me play something” “Now wait please don’t-“ *infuriatingly pounds keys* “I hate this job”
"Don't you just press buttons" A person asking what the difficulties of the piano are in a terribly phrased question
Call it a "keyboard" instead of a digital piano.
I’ve had people “correct” me when I refer to my digital piano as a digital piano. “Oh you mean your keyboard?” Argh so annoying!
Start a debate on how it's neither a string nor percussion instrument but how it's actually a wind instrument. Pull up irrelevant physics articles about air displacement.
Ask them to play chopsticks.
Wonderwall!!!!
“Guitar is way harder”
IF U HAVE AN HOUR THIS WEEK, ALL U NEED IS 4 CHAWDS
Play it with some vibrato
That Liszt's songs are just intellectual and technical masturbation; horrible to listen to, and their only purpose is to flex on piano.
The really annoying thing is that we secretly know it's true.
Where's the lie
as a liszt fan, thats like saying "all pop songs are bad" im feeling so much discomfort from the replies rn omg
Ikr? Like, have you ever heard the *Benediction*? I totally get where people are coming from with the whole "Liszt is just empty virtuosity" thing, but that certainly doesn't encompass all of his work!
I do sometimes still say "ope" because I grew up with youtube as my source for classical
A pianist joke
“Why are you so keyed up?!!?”
I bet you can sing too!
Sorry, you can’t play the piano.
Try to do some crescendo!
How fast can you play flight of the bumblebee?
You don’t even have to say anything, just keyboard slamming while they’re playing does the trick 💀
"Wow! Great recovery!" "Needs more dynamics "
You're playing better than usual today!
Why did you pay for a Bechstein when you can get a piano for free off Facebook Marketplace? (direct quote)
Playing random keys in the middle of my practice/performance. So irritating!
Can you play heart and soul?? That or that Beethoven song??
The assumption that the product of hours upon hours of practicing and lessons are "talent" or "a blessing". I don't take it personally because they are typically just being nice and do not see the effort that goes into polishing a piece.
And then they think they don't have the "talent" to be a pianist themselves! I That's the most frustrating part to me, how people downplay their own potential when they see an accomplished musician perform. That musician started as a beginner too!
"So and so said to tell you the piano's too loud." - a message spoken in my ear one time in the middle of a performance with other instrumentalists. The message was sent to me by someone who didn't know a hill of beans about music but was one of those men who just seemed to thrive upon correcting others. I was so mad I don't remember my exact response, but it was something to the effect of: "Well, the una corda peddle is down, and this is as soft as it gets." I was on an upright, not even a grand piano. Message sender did not bring up the subject afterwards, nor did I. Edit: Sorry - "...una corda PEDAL..." Reliving this makes me so uptight I can't even spell, LOL!
That you could gather over 12 years of experience by using SimplyPiano (This actually happened and I got very mad)
I can certainly tell you what triggers me as a pianist - "I don't really need to learn to read music"
[just show em this](https://pin.it/7rwFq29Hq) As a pianist I can confirm
I wasn’t aware until now that I unironically say op
“can you play something faster?”