Things to keep in mind:
The secret of playing it like
your hair’s on fire.
On the other hand, repetition is a common feature of the visceral playing of rock ’n’ roll pianists such as Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Lewis’s recordings during the late 1950s invented a new kind of performance practice, where high-octane repetition became symbolic of “sound made phsyical,” brought alive through and by means of the body’s reanimation of it. Nyman accidentally discovered this aspect of rock performance when, having “played ‘Madamina, il catalogo è questo’ like Jerry Lee Lewis… I discovered an approach to texture, an approach to piano playing, and a piano style which dictated the dynamic, articulation, and texture of everything I’ve subsequently done. It was born in one complete package.”
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