fun fact
for many years, it is like one is climbing up an invisible mountain and then one day it is obvious one is heading down and at some point previously, the […]
Piano
the orbit life
There is a guy I’ve worked with over a year, who makes more headway than most because he does the work and he gets off on the experience of his […]
ring finger
there is a little girl i teach once a week and it is very interesting that if i show her something that requires three fingers she will start the sequence […]
the new student who cancels at the last minute
there is a position you take sometimes when improvising, to bend with the people you are playing with and adjust whatever you might have wanted to do with whatever they […]
musical mind
viewing a tutorial about lydian modes. guy talked about hollywood composers inclination to utilize this, then played an excerpt of beethoven doing it. next he says beethoven is using the […]
instinct
it is incredible how one’s reflexes take over when something sudden happens and how defensive moves enact quicker than one’s ability to think about any of it, making fun of […]
@ the jam session
most people who call me for lessons go for the buy five at once deal, because there is a discount. new student, hard to figure out whether i am of […]
the repeated
I don’t have the usual strategies of a piano teacher, no book I’m following, no commitment to a template, no insisting on any particular scales. Just eyes open for no […]
beating the brain
Teaching an older person. they can’t exactly coordinate hands together the last 3 weeks. Now I’m thinking help lies (as always) in further simplifying the movement and reconsidering how they […]
who’s who
When you work at something on your instrument with your hands, a scale or a sequence or a gesture, you repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. At a […]