One of my cats, Xander, can ignore me for hours and then as soon as I sit down to practice he is crying for attention. He often tries to sit on my lap. Most of the time this is impossible because he doesn't like to sneak under moving arms, but as soon as I am working on something hands separately (i.e. Joplin, more deceptively difficult stuff) then he appears and will not be budged (without injury to myself). Last night he curled up on my lap while I was practicing the right hand and then when I switched to the left and had shifted slightly, he decided that sitting up on my shoulder was the way to go. Oh well, I guess if I can play the bass line while holding a cat, I can play it at any time! It works better when he just sits behind me on the piano bench and rubs up against my back; I can ignore that!
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Maybe if you take Xander to lessons, you'll play it purrfectly!
That's too funny! I can picture it because it's what Rover does when I read to the kids. He likes to sit on the book. Also likes to lie on top of the manuscript I'm trying to edit.
Most likely you've seen this cat that can play piano on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM
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