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So he wanted to even look like a pianist when he wasnt at the piano.

But in our first lesson, we focused on just playing a major scale.
At 29, Bowers is an up-and-comer in the Hollywood scoring scene.
Bowers got a little Method himself as he re-created Shirleys sound for the film.
For the actual prerecords and all the Don Shirley music that we rerecorded, theres no sheet music.
Because he was such an incredible pianist, I wanted to ensure that I was playing everything incredibly accurately.
I was practicing eight, nine hours a day.
It was pretty intense trying to verify that we were doing it justice.