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Category Archive: Preparation

What Kind of Piano to Buy?

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I would never recommend a specific make or model of piano to anyone, but I will tell you what to think about when shopping for one…

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2010-11-01 Preparation

How to Read Music: The Musical Way

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Let’s explore the variety of ways that an expert musician might perceive and conceive of the music…

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2010-06-05 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: The UN-musical Way

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Let’s pretend that our teacher puts the following music in front of us and asks us to play…

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2010-06-04 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: Music as Language

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Did you know… that expert music-reading is a highly learn-able skill?

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2010-06-03 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: Playing by Number

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Unfortunately, most people start and end their musical lives by being taught the abstract, left-brain subject of music notation without ever experiencing the concrete right-brain reality of music.

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2010-06-02 How to Read Music

How to Read Music: Why Learn to Read?

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Why learn to read music? The answer is simple…

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2010-06-01 How to Read Music

How to Read Music

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Welcome to a series of lessons that will open your eyes to what it means to read and comprehend written music like a musician, not a robot…

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2010-06-01 How to Read Music, Preparation

How to Study-Practice: Micro-Lessons

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Short and sweet mindsets for cultivating highly productive study-practice habits…

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2010-04-30 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: A Meditation on Gratitude

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I cannot think of a more honest and inspiring way to begin a study and practice session than with a meditation on gratitude…

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2010-04-28 How to Study-Practice

How to Study-Practice: Ways to Know a Piece of Music

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Preparation for performance is not about brute force “memorization” of unrelated dots on a page…

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2010-04-20 How to Study-Practice

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