Lessons

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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 […]

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1998, on an airplane flying to the Edmonton Folk Festival. Kate and Anna McGarrigle were seated near me. Couldn’t help it, went over to tell Anna how much I liked […]

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The mainstream absorbs revolutionary ideas then sells them back as non-threatening. Can you imagine punk rockers in the 70s with fuchsia mohawks and ripped jeans? If you weren’t there it […]

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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 […]

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When someone hires me to play on their music, try my best, follow my instincts and check whether they feel it hit the mark. If they’re happy, end of story. […]

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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.   […]

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I know someone who started playing an instrument later in life who told me when they started they’d be practising in the kitchen and their partner, who played the same […]

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Sometimes asked to teach kids. Don’t want to unless they want to. If it’s about the parents imagined idea that their kid should play it’s over before it starts.  

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Crazy fact I was clueless about before starting music school at York. Our Western system is based upon 12 notes that repeat in higher and lower positions. We call the distance […]

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I got an A+ when I studied piano at York and I never had good marks in high school. When I got that mark from I remember thinking – oh […]