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no, he doesn't do 240bpm. Or maybe he does...haven't put a metronome on him. I don't really encourage that. But he does seem to like playing some songs at breakneck pace. The funniest thing was that he was swinging "The Entertainer". I told him that ragtime is actually pretty strict and that it doesn't really swing...unless he wanted it to.
I started taking piano at age 8 and was somewhat of a phenom. My teacher was this old jazz cat who played trumpet and piano is smokey bars in San Diego. After about 6 months I was playing boogie woogie stuff, heavy left hand, dipping into jazz. After about 9 months of lessons he died. I never found another teacher that I clicked with (had the traditional classical stuff with gold stars, etc) and I drifted away from piano soon thereafter, just keeping up with guitar that I also started at 8, shifting to banjo for a year or two at age 12, then back to guitar. Picked up piano again in college doing some composition but was too lazy to relearn stuff. Another one of those, "I wish I'd..." stories...
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