Mindset & Attitude: What is “Smart”?
An invitation to embrace a profoundly human definition of “smart”–an intelligence that thinks, feels, and does in service to a meaningful life…
Mindset & Attitude: The Nature Nurture Debate
The fact that some people are remarkably skilled at something does not necessarily prove the existence of some innate gift…
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…
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…
Practice Habits: The Proper Mindset
FACT: The quality of your music-making is absolutely determined by the quality of your study and practice habits…
Practice Habits: Before We Begin
What more honest and inspiring way to begin a study-practice session than with a sincere meditation on Gratitude…
Practice Habits: Mental Rehearsal
Mental Rehearsal: An incredibly effective way to deeply internalize your music almost anywhere and anytime, even away from the piano…
Practice Habits: 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…