So, every year I take part in a piano competition in December. I have to memorize three pieces and play them in front of a judge, and then I get scores. You may be wondering, why is he telling us this? Why would we care? Well, calm your turtles, as my mom said this weekend, I'm about to get to the point. Here it is. Why would you want to work all this time on three pieces just to get scores from a random judge that may or may not impact the outcome of the latter part of your life? Well, as it is in athletics, musicians want to compete. It's just the competing sprit inside all of us. No matter what we do, we want to be the best. We'll do whatever it takes as long as we come out on top.
This is just the nature of the beast. You may laugh, but piano can get intense. I'm always on the edge of my seat waiting for my turn to play, and when it finally comes I am so nervous and try the hardest I can to concentrate, so I can get the best possible score I can achieve.
Sure, sometimes I wish that during the course of memorizing my songs for competitions I could just drop them and play something new. I mean, the same songs over, and over, and over, and over do get kind of tiresome. You constantly ask yourself, why? Why do I want to play the same songs over and over again?
And then it hits you. You want to be the best. You want to demolish the competition and get a trophy, just so you know that you were the best on that given day. It's just the competitive spirit inside us all, and proves that sporting competitions are not the only competitive competitions in this world. Musical competitions can be competitive as well. I am an athlete too, so pure musicians might not feel the same way, but for the most part this is true. Piano competitions are competitive.
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