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How to Study-Practice: Before You Begin, a Meditation

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Let’s adjourn the series on How to Study-Practice with a meditation in gratitude…

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How to Study-Practice: Feedback

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If I could give just one piece of advice to all piano students, it would be this…

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How to Study-Practice: The Drummer’s Trick

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When learning a new piece of music, it often a good idea to study-practice hands separately…

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How to Study-Practice: Hands Separate

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It is often extremely beneficial to study each hand separately before bringing them together…

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How to Study-Practice: Visualization

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We humans are extremely visual creatures. In fact, an enormous amount of our brain power is dedicated to processing visual information…

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How to Study-Practice: Slow Playing

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Do you feel that you really know the music or are you just playing by some loosely-learned habit?

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How to Study-Practice: Divide & Conquer

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Possibly the worst (and most common) habit of all is to mindlessly go back to the beginning of a piece when you make a mistake…

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How to Study-Practice: Ears First

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It may sound so obvious that it should go without saying, but…

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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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How to Study-Practice: Study-Practice Session Guidelines

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Every growing musician should be doing two things simultaneously…

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