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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 […]
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 […]
There was an idea to treat outer space like the ocean it is and in 1977 they launched spaceships Voyager 1 & 2 replete with messages in a bottle ostensibly […]
For a certain type of musician whatever they can do isn’t good enough. New people to piano have difficulty playing hands together. One forgets how real a complication that is […]
fred: i hate bach judy: bach is a genius randy: i’m trying to eat dinner. why are you fighting? judy: we’re not fighting he’s bragging about being stupid. fred: bach […]
One night 6 or 7 years ago there was a blackout in our neighbourhood. We went for a walk in the blackness and enjoyable electricity-less sky. At the bottom of […]