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Jordan Rudess has always had an exceptional ability to play the keyboard. As a nine year old he started going to the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College Division for classical piano training. By his late teens, he wound up pushing against the establishment at Juilliard with his improvistations on the classical pieces he was asked to learn. It's a bit stunning to me that the educators at Juilliard were so focused on training Jordan a certain way that they seem to completely missed his musical genius for being able to riff any style of music off the top of his ...Read More