Songbird Piano Lessons

 Hope you enjoy this video! It's one I greatly appreciate for both the message and the quality. 

 Tempo The speed at which music is performed

 I think I'm just about out of musical memories as a student that would make good "My Story" posts. I have many music memories, but most of them would not work well in story format. They're too general. Like formally serving dessert and trying to keep the chocolate off my white sleeves at a Mother's Day handbell concert. Or the many Festival performances I participated in, and the exciting years when I made it to the Gala Concert (now called the Showcase Concert). The frustration of trying to capture the feeling of a song that I had been given to work on. The thrill of a performance. The joys of playing in church over the years. Yes, many memories, but not many good stories that I haven't already written about. Consider this the last "My Story" post until further notice.     When I was taking lessons under  Mr. F.,  as I prepared for my Grade 10 exam, he instructed me to create a practice sheet for him to write notes on with different categories. One...

 Hi, all    Today's post is more of a challenge than a tip. Think of it as a science experiment. You get to take a hypothesis running out there, and prove whether or not it works. (But it might take time to prove, so don't just try it tomorrow and go, "That didn't work." The idea is to try it long-term and see.)    Years ago,  my teacher (Mr. F)  gave me a couple of documents on different ideas for practicing. Actually, one was an entire article all by itself. The gist of the article was that, rather than always "fixing" our mistakes, it may be beneficial in some cases to repeat the mistake, on purpose. Then, after that, you aim to play it correctly. It used studies from long jumping to make its point.     Recently, I came across this idea again in  The Bulletproof Musician's  email newsletter. Which made me start to think about it more seriously -- especially since, in this case, the quoted study was not the same long jump stu...

 Largo Slow and broad

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