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本文的小主人公是一位钢琴家。一个炎热的下午，她将一首另类摇滚乐改编成钢琴曲，因而获得了极大的满足。因为在依葫芦画瓢地照着他人所作的乐谱弹奏了这么多年后，她终于第一次有了属于自己的作品。同时，她从这件事上获得了一个启迪：每个人都是自己人生的改编者，你要善于和勇于利用前人留给你的东西，去编写属于自己的人生乐章！ In the middle of a hot July afternoon, when the stifling air came with rippling waves of heat, I became a thief of some sort—a thief of music. For the first time, I had created an original piano arrangement of one of my favorite songs. Not once had I looked for the help of premade sheet music or video tutorials on YouTube. Using only my ears and iPod, I had transformed a mix of intermingling sounds and intricate melodies into the tones of a single instrument; I had created complex harmonies and voices into something I could perform with only two hands. No help, no guide: I had done it on my own. I’ve been a pianist since before my hands were big enough to reach an octave: with a musician and composer for a father, I was all but born on the piano bench. For many years, my musical identity was defined by the notes that others had written in centuries past: elegant lines of neatly printed notes stamped across sheet music became the script I was obligated to perform. I valued playing classical music—adored it, even—but such performances felt inherently shallow, lacking in depth and details because I had nothing of my own to contribute to the masterful compositions of Bach or Rachmaninov. | 
