My guest is David Servias, a piano teacher and fellow Instagrammer (@stuff.david.does). Listen in as we chat about piano teaching, music practice, social media videos, theoretical computer science, and the eventual robot takeover of humankind.

(0:01:55) Trying something new during a pandemic.(0:07:48) Videos are a type of practice.(0:10:35) Don't want to see ourselves on camera.(0:13:44) People don't care as much about us as we do.(0:15:47) Recording ourselves playing the piano.(0:17:05) Avoiding things you're afraid of.(0:18:01) Improvements happen automatically when you record.(0:20:28) You can't teach piano.(0:24:10) Punishing students for making mistakes.(0:25:20) Being aware of mistakes or not being aware.(0:32:44) Correcting students' mistakes based on intuition.(0:36:19) Teaching students not to trust their own instincts.(0:40:19) Was Michael angry at his teachers as a student?(0:54:27) Michael's minimalistic way of teaching piano.(0:59:56) High standards, competitions.(1:05:49) Teachers claiming to be able to teach everything.(1:12:16) Juries in music school.(1:20:40) Yoga challenges.(1:24:12) Meditation.(1:31:57) Musicians should learn from actors.(1:38:51) Improvisation, screwups, groups.(1:46:02) Playing from memory.(1:51:54) Harmony and chords and analysis.(1:55:26) Theory and practice, grammar.(1:58:31) Theoretical computer science.(2:01:23) Computers vs humans, neural networks, social media algorithms.

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