Thanks so much! Most appreciated!

Thanks! I'm also happy you did!

Thanks, Max! We all have some degree of fear or shame around expressive freedom, and in a world where we're all supposed to be so rational and productive, expressiveness gets a little lost. So it's not easy!

@@PhilBestMusic Thank you... very true what you are saying.... Blessings, Mx

Thanks, Peter! You're a great student!

Of course!

It is PTQ's NY Steinway.

NY Steinway is very, very nice 👍

Meaning?

I'm guessing you agree with me and it's a reference to chaos or complexity theory... Things are so complex that the outcomes are beyond our control. So we come from a place of deep simplicity and let go!

@@PhilBestMusic eh... I'm talking about the song... whatever

So was I! 😅 Never mind, I was just messing with you!

As explained on PlayPianoFluently.com, prior experience will make your progress SLOWER if you don't abandon it completely when you practise fluency, otherwise there is no protective wall. Work to deeply appreciate how music theory is at odds with my model! I think working on another training method separately simultaneously could also cause conflict and slow you down. You're asking your brain to process music in two different ways. One is fast and works but is radical, unfamiliar and counter-cultural. The other is slow, doesn't work but is sold to us as the norm and is therefore familiar and everyone does it. You can see the difficulty here. I know this is a dilemma for you, and I'm sympathetic but I have to be honest. Hundreds of hours practice are necessary, sorry! Not thousands though, as is the conventional wisdom. A little often is best. Being in the right zone, without blockages, freely expressive and clearly focused on the model moment by moment is the key to making good progress. Quantity of practice is a secondary factor; quality comes first. I'm very experienced in all kinds of musical work. I've done lots of jobs as a pianist, in the past, accompanying all kinds of soloists and groups and I've worked as a college teacher too, until I gave that up to focus on teaching fluency.

What did I say to cause that reaction?

@@PhilBestMusic Oh..., I'm Sorry to miscommunicate to you with that kind of emoji That reaction means shocked and surprised I felt shocked when you replied to me because I thought it was okay to study PPF while taking tradition piano methods but it was not and as you said it can cause conflict even if you have protective wall as long you're not giving up old models (traditional piano methods) also I was surprised that you also worked with other musicians as accompanist (collaborating artist) and you're model still worked even if your worked with other musicians trained in traditional music teaching and it gave you many opportunities in the music industry. That's all

I knew what your extreme emoji reaction meant, just not what provoked it! In my view, not explaining a reaction like that is a little rude and disrespectful, although I've come to expect that from you so no shocked emojis from me! OK... So let's get this sorted out. It IS OK to study the usual way and keep it TOTALLY separate from PPF. I was pointing out that you're NOT keeping them separate at all if you make the mistake that the traditional system will speed up your progress in my fluency training. It will slow you down if you fail to see that they are absolutely not the same thing. The truth is the other way round: if you are fluent musically FIRST, traditional theory and aural/practical musicianship training are VERY easy! There's no hope for you doing this, until you make the effort to understand what fluency is. It's like language. Does being fluent in a language make it easier or harder to study grammar or to learn the lines in a play and participate with others? Think about it! Obviously, my fluency gives me superpowers as a musician. Superpowers that help me in ALL musical situations. So it should not shock you to learn that my degree in music was entirely in the traditional method and I got extremely high marks in all aspects. Being fluent does not hobble you, if frees you. Be careful about your reactions on here. I don't tolerate rudeness. I get that you are frustrated but a cooperative attitude is always better for us than the thinly disguised antagonism you seem to favour. Take the time to translate what I am telling you here carefully and deeply understand it. I'm trying to help you!

@@PhilBestMusic I humbly apologize for doing this. I already know that conventional piano knowledge (music knowledge that is norm today) cannot apply to music fluency because they are totally different and I learned this based on my experience. At first, i thought the blocks that you're mentioning is the same as chords taught in music education but I realized that they are different. Chords in music education is based on intervals while chords in PPF are based on special and tonal relationship awareness using the symmetries. By the way Thanks for Helping me sir keep up the good work