link hereI hate how fucking ignorant my father is! (and not only that, but also how he thinks he knows everything and always has to stick it in everyone's face) I know I've said this before, but new, more ilustrating examples have come up.
He's constantly critizicing how I play the piano, saying "this should be faster, this should be slower", without even knowing that such thing as "tempo" exists. He dares criticize me, beliving that there is a sort of "universal tempo" (one beat = one second), and that the speed of the passages is determined by the kind of notes (for example, if it's fast, then they are sixteenth notes, if it's slow, then they are half notes), which is something anyone with a bare understanding of the most basic music theory, knows that makes no sense at all. He says "if you play eighth notes that fast, then how are you supposed to play sixteenth notes?". He looks as if he was trying to embarrass himself on purpose!
Also, he thinks he has a perfect pitch because he can recongize de C when playing a C major scale, and there is no way to make him understand why one thing has nothing to do with the other! I mean, I got to a point where, if he wants to belive it, I just let him be happy in his ignorance, what the fuck do I care. But is it to much to ask to stay off my fucking back, man?
And also, the other day I was practicing, so just for fun I was playing a conventional 1-4-5-1 cadence in a minor, and he goes "oh, that's Chopin's Predlude, right?" I didn't know which one he was talking about so I said "I don't know, maybe..." But a few days later he shows it to me, it was a prelude in c# minor that was nothing like what I was playing, the only thing they had in common was that both where chords played on a low registry. So I say, "yeah, they kinda sound alike" because I honestly wouldn't think any less of him just for making a mistake on a subject he knows nothing about, it can happen to anyone and it's ok. But he can't stop, he goes on and on "No, this are the exact same chords you where playing the other day, I recongize them because of my musical ear. You have to learn this piece, you know almost all of it already". Not only it wasn't on the same key (which is something you can't expect him to recognize), but also, the very escence of Chopin consists in modulating to unexpected scales, and using interesting cadences, rather than playing 1-4-5-1 indefinitely (which is something almost anyone could see. And if they can't they might as well shut the fuck up! Right?)
Oct 3 5:49 PM MST 
