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Re: Hello music educators! In teaching your students, what do you struggle with and enjoy the most? @Kyle Johnson At least in my experience, you need to start with a technical approach to balance before it becomes natural. I think that's been one of the big problems with traditional teaching,…
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Re: Hello music educators! In teaching your students, what do you struggle with and enjoy the most? I think the hardest thing is sussing out whether a student is not practicing something out of a lack of know-how or a lack of desire. So often with pre-college age students,…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Do you have a technical routine? Please share! I don't. Honestly, I've never found the need, and I find them so dull and unenjoyable that I probably would have quit piano if any of my professors had actually enforced them.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Should I set passing the Royal Conservatory examinations as a learning objective? @One Beat I hope you enjoy it!
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Should I set passing the Royal Conservatory examinations as a learning objective? @One Beat I should really preface this by saying that this is just my opinion. There are plenty of teachers out there with different opinions who achieve fantastic results.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Back in the saddle again! Please, advise! Just want to second Principles of the Taubman Approach. I think Dorothy Taubman's work is really key. Avoiding injury isn't about warming up or even playing easier pieces.…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: Should I set passing the Royal Conservatory examinations as a learning objective? It's my personal hot take, but since you asked... no. The Royal Conservatory's examinations require a large number of scales and arpeggios which are unrelated to the repertoire you are playing,…
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- 4 mths ago
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Re: DOW: What's the most memorable feedback you've received about your playing? Not positive feedback, but truly memorable. My freshman year at college, one of the comments for my first jury was that my Mozart K. 280 was "hot and crusty."
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: Mike's Practice Love the Robert Vandall piece. I should teach that one this year. The Catherine Rollin piece is very nice too. I don't normally teach out of Lyric Moments, but it sounds like I should.…
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- 7 mths ago
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Re: Euphoria and the Taubman Technique I will say that I just had my fourth lesson with Bob Durso and it's been wonderful. I have watched his lessons on Tonebase and have watched and rewatched the Taubman tapes several times over the…
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- 7 mths ago
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Re: Read Me and FAQ I'm going to try to push myself to do it. I finish teaching 45 minutes before the concert, so I should be fine to join. Like Harriet, I really want to push myself to get a Liszt etude ready to go,…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: Read Me and FAQ @Gillian Many performers these days are choosing to use scores again, especially with tablets! I personally like to memorize things so I can just sit down and play when there's a piano around.…
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- 1 yr ago
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- Preparing your pieces for Concert - A Checklist!
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Re: What music are you working on? I am working on Chopin's 3rd Ballade and Limoges from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. After my last performance of Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water, my grandmother said, yet again,…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What's your favorite piano literature/book? Creativity Beyond Compare and Music, Joy, Creativity by Forrest Kinney. Really eye-opening about what art and art lessons can aspire to. All of Graham Fitch's Practising the Piano e-books are…
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: What is your dream piece to perform? Ravel's Ondine. I know most of it, but it's not secure and it's not fast enough.
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- 3 yrs ago
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