Where is My Mind?

Hey, Miss Mind! Where are you?

Do you have to ask your mind sometimes that question? As it probably happens to everyone to catch their mind wandering around, at some other places, with some other people, in completely non-realistic circumstances. Sometimes even going back to the dreams, or some situations that happened in the past but there is no reason to remember them exactly at a certain moment when it is not expected. Our mind doesn't want to keep quiet and it seems that it likes to escape from our control. From the dictator's influence. I mean, I don't know if it happens to everyone, I can't be sure so let's take all this with a grain of salt, ok?

But I think that the mind of my student this morning wanted to escape far away from the situation we found ourselves in. So, it's Saturday morning when this student comes to my home for his private piano lesson. He was absent for some weeks as he had to go to the other corner of the world, to attend a fair for his business. Before we start to play we like to talk a bit, about how the week went or similar, but now he had indeed a super nice thing to tell me. He visited a huge music store in Hong Kong (that's where he was) full of luxury pianos. The price of them? It is better not even to mention... Guided by his explanation my mind travelled there and just admired the scene. But, it was time to start to work as the hour could disappear quickly.

We have chosen a new piece to study today, a piano piece became very popular lately. For the first time, we heard this song on a French alternative radio station that many times offer the musical background in our home. Later, we recognized the tune in one advertisement on television and just a few weeks later, another commercial also used the same music. Just the first fragment of it actually. Just a bit of research and we knew the title of the song and the piano version it appeared in all these cases.

It is the song Where is My Mind, by the band Pixies. This song was featured also in a movie watched in our home recently, Fight Club. However, the piano version I am talking about is played by Maxence Cyrin. Here comes his YouTube channel if you want to check out his original piano works and piano covers. We started to read the notes, analyze the chords, practice the jumps and positions and then... THEN my son decided to study the violin.

My son's violin scores

Do you know that the violin is quite a loud instrument? If you don't know, I am telling you that. You just have to believe me. It was a bit difficult to concentrate on this calm piano piece and in this phase of learning while you hear Bach's Partita in D minor from the other room. I apologised to my student but he said it was fine. But I don't know... In his place, I would let my mind run away, far far away from this house of musicians and all this noise (oops, I mean music). 😁

The lesson finished with positive vibes and the violin practising still continued for some time. When everything got calm, I switched again to the piano and recorded this little song, so simple but with this interesting title, Where is My Mind.

So, back to the questions from the beginning... Do you always know where is your mind, or it sometimes goes where it wants, without your consent? Like a person for herself... Miss Mind.