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Thunderstorm! - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Harrison plays Thunderstorm by Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee. Stay safe and dry this weekend, y'all! Benefits Of Music Education. Playing All the Right Notes Blog.
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Practicing: the Four S's - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Practicing: the Four S's. It is amazing the difference practicing makes. It is simply not possible to make progress without it. But I am not a fan of the typical. Practice session, and definitely not a fan of the popular practice technique of just playing a piece over and over until it is learned. Both are. They also lead to frustration and demotivation in any reasonable human being. Benefits Of Music Education.
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Blog Archives - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Akash plays Broken Music Box by Stephen Chatman. The piece is arranged so that no two performances are the same: the player chooses segments of music from an array of boxes "in the moment", without planning the choices ahead of time. Recital of Debussy's Complete Etudes. Please enjoy this unique program of French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy's 12 Études for the piano by my former teacher, Dr. Sandra Joy Friesen.
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. How to Read Music in 5 Minutes (with video). And it's not because reading is easy or intuitive: the symbols for text (the alphabet) are abundant (26), the way they look has little to do with how they are pronounced, and there are a ton of additional rules that go beyond merely sounding out each letter to form a word or even understand a simple sentence. Let's cultivate in ourselves (and our children) the drive to learn to read musical not...
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Honeybee is the first piece after the Twinkle Variations in Suzuki piano book 1. It is a transitional piece (along with the first "Lightly Row") between the right hand-only Twinkles and the two hands-independent "Cuckoo." Adults need to realize that, aside from playing hands together, several aspects of the piece are difficult from a student's perspective:. Playing with consecutive fingers. Playing one hand in parallel with the other.
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Recital of Debussy's Complete Etudes - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Recital of Debussy's Complete Etudes. Please enjoy this unique program of French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy's 12 Études for the piano by my former teacher, Dr. Sandra Joy Friesen. Though I am certainly biased, I have never heard Debussy's music come alive more than when she is performing it. It is such a treat to have this performance online. Benefits Of Music Education. Playing All the Right Notes Blog.
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How to Read Music in 5 Minutes (with video) - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. How to Read Music in 5 Minutes (with video). And it's not because reading is easy or intuitive: the symbols for text (the alphabet) are abundant (26), the way they look has little to do with how they are pronounced, and there are a ton of additional rules that go beyond merely sounding out each letter to form a word or even understand a simple sentence. Let's cultivate in ourselves (and our children) the drive to learn to read musical not...
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. A reader has asked me how my posts about technique translate to the adult learner. Here are some thoughts. Preamble: Technique is just not that fun, until it is. The writings of the experimentalist composer John Cage are a huge source of inspiration to me. The line “nothing is not a pleasure if one is irritated, but suddenly, it is a pleasure, and then more and more it is not irritating” from his. Adult learners, though, will have to acce...
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Broken Music Box - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. Akash plays Broken Music Box by Stephen Chatman. The piece is arranged so that no two performances are the same: the player chooses segments of music from an array of boxes "in the moment", without planning the choices ahead of time. Benefits Of Music Education. Playing All the Right Notes Blog.
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The Gift of Piano Lessons - Cypress Piano Studio
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Piano lessons for creative, results-oriented learners of all ages. The Gift of Piano Lessons. My Facebook feed is regularly populated with great articles about how music education benefits kids ( here's the latest one. I have no doubt that science will empirically validate what musicians, educators and past civilizations know innately: that musical ability is a good and necessary part of every person’s balanced life. School of Finger Dexterity. Beethoven’s and Mozart’s Sonatas, Russian and Fr...I have no...