The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
