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I don’t care if my kid plays music or not but I want to make it easy to grab it if she so desires. I play in front of her […]
I don’t care if my kid plays music or not but I want to make it easy to grab it if she so desires. I play in front of her […]
1987, in the studio with Terry Brown and Juno award winning engineer Mike Jones, Bruce Hornsby’s song That’s The Way It Is comes over the air waves during a break. […]
Freud: Can you teach me how to play Bohemian Rhapsody? Wiseman: Probably Freud: How will you do it? Wiseman: We’ll do small parts then incrementally you’ll know […]
People wanting piano lessons. See how the black notes are grouped into threes and twos. Reach/ press those groupings up and down octaves, whatever speed you can. […]
Over the years as the Gerrard street restaurants and other businesses increase I remember the wee house still standing on the north side and the small town feel weekly arriving […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCbQCnoIzI Got into music school because I lived out of province sent a cassette demonstrating my piano playing, something classical and something jazz. Was glad I could send in a […]
Stay in the key of C Use the sustain pedal Only play slow bass notes in left hand Never obtain a piano made of hammers-hitting-strings Keep playing that music you […]
I worked with an inspiring pianist who’s body language was the opposite of mine. I squirm and contort. My legs and torso move in different directions and my head flings […]
people in concert play a “wrong” not while improvising or soloing, then a couple instant thoughts usually go through the brain. one is to correct the note but then you […]
Some people I teach are notation-reading-only-musicians and some have a similar story in their background being at parties where people are jamming and despite playing all their life they can’t play […]