I never mastered the religious clave, rumba, when I got back to Britain I tried to arithmetize it, making it a 5 and a 7, tak ka tak ka ka tak ka tak ka tak ka ka, but then I realized it was just, “let’s all do the conga”. Music is hard, I memorized classical pieces as a child, like Chopin’s fantasy impromtu and Debussy’s clair de lune. I also played clarinet for Shotacovich’s fifth at a youth orchestra, I can’t play anymore because I could never accompany a lady. In our band, they were on drums and bass.
