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Piano Study: Tempo shifts from Childhood to Adulthood

Posted on May 3, 2014 by

Turning back the clock to my early years as a piano student, I regarded ANDANTE as the slowest tempo marking in the musical universe. So did all my friends who foot dragged their pedal and stumbled through the doldrums of … Continue reading →

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Berkeley/Bay Area Meet-up, Shut up, Listen up Groups

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

Searching for the right match-up….. Continue reading →

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Practicing on a Digital Piano (Video) PROS and CONS

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

My Casio PX 110 sits on the second floor of my townhouse because there’s no room for it anywhere else. Haddy Haddorff stole the space that Cassy formerly inhabited. In truth, the digital is not on the high priority activity … Continue reading →

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The Piano Universe of Discussion Boards, Digital Feedback, and Self-analysis (Video)

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

I love to scan the Boards at Piano World, UK Forums, Piano Street, Piano Addict, and other stop-off points such as My Music Life Blogspot and Color in my Piano to get a feel for the concerns of piano students … Continue reading →

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The Piano Teacher as Composer: Using my MOONBEAMS collection as an example (Video)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

Why not give composing a try? I did. For the most part, you don’t need a degree in composition, but a Theory background helps things along with voice leading in the bass part and understanding the rules of notation. Above … Continue reading →

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Music Theory and Piano Study: It doesn’t have to be drudgery

Posted on March 26, 2011 by

Music Theory doesn’t have to be drudgery If I turn the clock back to my early days as a piano student, I can say without a doubt that I absolutely HATED “Music Theory” or anything remotely related to it. And … Continue reading →

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Piano Instruction: Teaching Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata, Movement 1 (VIDEO)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Beethoven didn’t attach “Moonlight” to this first movement of his very popular C# minor Sonata. (Music critics often invented these tags that stuck over centuries) The composer, himself, said his opening was like a fantasy, “quasi una fantasia,” and he … Continue reading →

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