Jen Crabb

Its Not Whether You Make Mistakes, It’s How You Cover Them Up

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I know it sounds a bit crazy and counterproductive but as an amateur musician, the goal is not to be perfect but to cover up those imperfections. This is not really what piano students are usually taught, especially when they are kids, because it is never easy to tell which students will choose to use … Read more

It  Doesn’t Matter…

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It doesn’t matter if you have never learned music before. All of us have to start somewhere and not everyone has been fortunate to have the right set of circumstances to learn music before, and not everyone has had the opportunity or priveledge to be able to have piano lessons when they were younger, or … Read more

You Don’t Have to be Perfect

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Maybe it is just me, but so often I get stuck with thinking that things have to be perfect or else they are not worthwhile. In reality, I know I am not alone in this type of thinking, as there exists a term to completely discribe this – perfectionism. Perfectionism can cover a huge way … Read more

Why Some People Might Discourage You From Learning to Play the Piano

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Obviously, I am no psychologist, I am a music teacher, but here is what I have figured out from a few decades of teaching. There are some people that will give you a whole lot of reasons, seemingly sound reasons, why you should not learn to play the piano. The first reason why some people … Read more

Horrible Practices and Horrible Lessons

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I don’t know why it is, but it seems that periodically and definitely randomly, your piano practice will be just a disaster. The same is true for piano lessons – that every once in a while they just happen out of the blue. These occurences that I am refering to , are not when you … Read more

You Have More Ability Than What You Think

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Of all the conversations I have had with people that have confided in me, the main reason why people don’t take the plunge and learn to play the piano, is not because they are too busy.The real reason is that they don’t believe that they are going to be good enough to learn to play … Read more

You Are Never Too Old To Play the Piano

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I sometimes hear from older people that they consider themselves too old to learn to play the piano, and in some ways I get it – western society doesn’t appreciate the older generations  and consider them ready for the scrap heap. The truth is that older people can still do a lot of things and … Read more