Lessons

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The business of school often feels like a game and I try to learn the rules but no simple playbook. The nice thing about being solo is you make your […]

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student: how long does it take to become a master musician? teacher: a lifetime. student: have you heard one? teacher: i have. student: live like in person? teacher: yep. student: […]

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student: How do you get the left hand to do something repetitive and fast and then play something altogether different with your right?   teacher: You take independence pills.   […]

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Some beginners, especially kids, can’t remember the fingering solutions I try leading them through. Like it might be E F# G# and I want them to go THUMB INDEX MIDDLE […]

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Older piano student, beginner, working on Take 5 two weeks ago. Played it back to me today but in 8. Pretty sure I also unwittingly played it in 8 when […]

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A film released in 2018, now on Youtube. Two middle aged guys talk to Ornette Coleman in his apartment. They are visiting a master musician near the end of his […]

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A flock of birds is overhead. A piano teacher who looks like Meryl Streep and three students who look like the Thompson Twins sit in High Park having a picnic […]

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There is a feature in Logic Pro that emanates a drummer, tonight I had some happy accidents, discovered some new methods to program it making it even more realistic. It […]

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student went to their teacher, said i stink. i’m never going to get this right. i’m a horrible player. i’m an imposter. teacher said yes that’s all true. student was […]

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A 7 yr. old piano student told her teacher “It’s weird you call these black notes Eb but they’re in different parts of the piano. Why don’t you give each […]