Jen Crabb

How to Get Started if You Want to Learn Classical Piano

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Learning to play classical piano can be quite different to how you learn to play modern piano or jazz piano, because there are obviously significant differences between the three genres. If you want to play classical piano, then you will need to learn to read music. With the other genres, it isn’t quite as necessary … Read more

Do You Need to Have a Good Sense of Rhythm to Play the Piano?

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The simple answer to this question as to whether you need a good sense of rhythm in order to be able to paly the piano is a yes. To get started though, you do not need to have a good sense of rhythm at all, because a good sense of rhythm is something that you … Read more

Learning to Play the Piano is a Great First Instrument

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If you are interested in learning more than one musical instrument in your retirement, then I think that learning the piano is the best to learn as your first instrument. Clearly, not everyone would agree with me because we all have our own biases, including myself. I think learning to play the piano first is … Read more

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