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Music Scales Practice Technique of Grouping Notes

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in Methods

Practicing or playing music scales can be a boring task for many music students. This is because the practice of grouping notes is not well communicated to the student.

Piano Technique Hand Positions

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in Methods, Performance

Approaching the Piano or keyboard. Some teach that the high wrist and holding your hands up is the way to start however, others believe that a relaxed light resting of the hands at the keyboard is the way to go. Here’s a couple of ideas to help you explore your approach.

Attacking the Piano Keyboard

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in Methods, Performance

The approach and attack one applies to the striking the keys on the piano can make all the difference in the world to the sound that is produced.

Musical Masters Success in 10,000 Hours

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in Performance

Musical Masters have spend thousands of hours achieving their success, and with the 10,000 rule all that have made it that far have become masters. What does that mean to you…

Playing Music is about Succeeding in Preparation

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in Methods

I read a different prospective that we actually succeed, not by making disconnected moves, but by creating a context for success. Let’s examine what this might do for you…

A Method to Learn Music Five Times Faster

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in Learning Music, Methods

Learning music five times faster is about learning how to learn and putting known methods into practice, pun intended.

Do Your Goals Limit Your Playing?

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in Learning Music

Reading chapter 4 of Effortless Mastery is about limited goals and getting beyond them. Really I see two sets of goals. The first of which is the ultimate goal of why you play. The second is that of practice. Two different objectives..

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