Keelan Dimmick remarks on the TM® technique, "I definitely do not skip a meditation before a performance."
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Award winning pianist, Keelan Dimick, describes his practice of Transcendental Meditation.
I got started playing music when I was really young when I was about three years old. I didn't really have formal training until I was about fourteen.
Keelan Dimick has received 1st place two year in a row at the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival.
How I prepare for a competition is, I mean I have to have my material, my musical material together and I meditate. I definitely do not skip a meditation before a performance. When I transcend I experience deep quietness and silence and bliss. It is the time and the only thing you can do in life that allows you to kind of take a step out of what we see as reality and therefore allowing you to see more holistically.
Does meditating allow me to open myself up to more genres? You may think, okay I'm doing jazz, so you only check out musicians who are in that genre but if you're going from your feeling you may get up one morning and feel like you want to listen to Gandharva Veda so you listen to that for a while and that will definitely have an influence on your playing.
Your mood effects how you play. I mean everything effects how you play. Each person has kind of their own personality and everything and you do even though it's subtle has a hint of your personality in it. So if a guy is really relaxed and calm then most likely that's going to be his flavor of playing.
When I'm fully rested and doing my Transcendental Meditation program there is nothing that is really a stress. You know I've got to be honest because nothing really affects me on the outside and that's why I feel it is very important for students especially to start Transcendental Meditation (TM).
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