The Appellate Record Blog: Thou Shalt Give Thy Reader CRAP (Part I)

Have you ever watched a really fantastic pianist closely - like watching Evgeny Kissin's fingers flying over the keys.

Seriously, watch the Youtube link because there's a point to this.

How do they do this?

Obviously innate talent combined with thousands of repetitions over years of practice.

But you know one thing that would foil even Evgeny Kissin and make his finger's stumble? Taking all the CRAP out of the key board.

After the jump, I'll finally define CRAP and talk about what CRAP has to do with legal writing.

How hard can it be to play piano? I mean there are only 88 keys. They play the same note every time you touch them, right? All you have to do is touch exactly the right key at the right time in the right way and the piano will perform perfectly.