Music Recommendations

What Style or Genre is Ideal to Learn?

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I have frequently written about the value in all different styles and genres of music and just because classical music is actually my favorite to play on the piano, doesn’t mean that classical music is superior to all other genres. I think that it is important to learn to play what you actually would like … Read more

A Review of Piano Video Lessons

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Piano Video lessons is both a website and a You Tube Channel. Both present as a very professionally run business and at first glance, I’m actually quite impressed with the quality of information given and the way that it is all presented. As part of the You Tube channel there about 96 sequential lessons that … Read more

Writing the Names of the Notes on the Music

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This is actually a pet peeve of mine – students writing the letter names of the notes on their music. It happens so often. I do understand why students attempt to do this. Students are thinking that this is a short cut. As a one off, it does make it easier to so called read … Read more

Why Some Music is Written Badly

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Some music is written badly and it is not because the quality of the music is particularly bad. I am not imposing my personal opinion here, it just that some music is not written well. Actually it is more accurate to state that some music is transcribed really badly. If you have every heard a … Read more