How Your Brain Works: One Organ, Many Functions
A quick introduction to the phenomenal variety of emotional, cognitive, sensory, and motor functions our amazing brains are capable of…
Piano Practice Habits: Four Stages of Competence
Four Stages of Competence: A framework for measuring progress on the road to mastery… with implications for both students and teachers…
Musical Time: Downbeats and Upbeats
An illuminating learn-by-doing introduction to the rhythmic concepts of Downbeats and Upbeats…
Musical Time: A Lesson in Continuity
An illuminating lesson in how the way we think about the meter profoundly influences our sense of rhythm…
Piano Practice Habits: The Proper Mindset
FACT: The quality of your music-making is absolutely determined by the quality of your study and practice habits…
Piano Practice Habits: Before We Begin
What more honest and inspiring way to begin a study-practice session than with a sincere meditation on Gratitude…
Piano Practice Habits: Mental Rehearsal
Mental Rehearsal: An incredibly effective way to deeply internalize your music almost anywhere and anytime, even away from the piano…
Piano Practice Habits: An Introduction to “Musical Mind”
An invitation to the mind-blowing reality of “musical mind”–something that should be the very first lesson for each and every piano student…
Piano Practice Habits: Divide and Conquer
Did you ever notice how you can play the first few bars of a piece so much better than the rest?
Piano Practice Habits: Studying? Practicing? Exercising?
Lesson Goal: To understand that studying, practicing, and exercising are three very different behaviors with three very different goals…