Month: July, 2008

Lessons Through the Summer

18 July, 2008 (10:00) | Piano Lessons

Given that this is July…. it may be a bit late to be talking about this here, but….
I try to encourage all of my students to keep going with lessons through the summer. Obviously I’d rather they stuck with the weekly routine for many reasons. The biggest reason though is that when 2 [...]

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Note Naming Training Software | NoteCard

11 July, 2008 (10:54) | Music Theory, Notation, Practice Resources

Recently I ran across a neat little freeware program called Notecard. It’s a good little notereading trainer for Windows (also runs via wine on linux and possibly mac). Basically you are presented with a staff (you can choose treble or bass clef or both.) You can be quizzed on notes and answer [...]

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The Importance of Taking a Break

4 July, 2008 (10:51) | Music Lessons, Practice

I know how it is when you’ve worked on a piece for some time. You’ve practiced hours each day perfecting every note and it still feels like it’s missing something. Maybe there’s one passage that never seems to work right in the time or something you can’t seem to memorize. Here’s a [...]

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