Friday Freebie Tutorial: How to Play the G major scale on piano! Here's a video I made for a thorough tutorial on how to play…
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This is my first attempt at making a video that required any significant film-making skills. Please be patient with me. I hope you find it…
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From time to time in lessons, I refer my students to watch Ted Talks that I think might help them with whatever they are struggling…
How to practice effectively…for just about anything – Annie Bosler and Don Greene Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an…
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This week, I thought we could revisit an old post that I think bears repeating. I copied and pasted it entirely here, but the link…
Continue reading → Flashback Friday – Helping Your Music Student Practice. Ten Tips.
One of the things that teachers might forget is that a beginning music student needs to learn how to practice – a process that takes…
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I. Summary of recent article and its suggested exercise I recently read an article that suggested a few exercises to help musicians play with more…
Continue reading → Playing musically through the use of adjectives, metaphors, and imagery
Some additional tips on how to memorize music. I particularly like her advice in #3 and #4 – understanding and analyzing the music is particularly…
In recent lessons, I’ve been trying to get my students to understand that one doesn’t and shouldn’t just rely on one’s fingers to play. In…