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Posts Tagged [ practice ]

My Practice Essentials

On 19 Nov, 2017
Motivation, Practicing
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by STEVEN BOWEN I've written before about the differences between playing your instrument and practicing your instrument. I find that, when I'm playing, all I need is my piano. But when I'm practicing, I almost always have the same...

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It’s time to quit! (Wait—is it?)

On 16 Nov, 2015
Benefits, Education, Financial assistance, New students, Parenting, Practicing
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My kid’s not practicing — should we quit?   (We know, we’ve blogged about practice before but it’s been about a year, and it comes up just about every day, so here we go again...)   Practice is a big problem. We hear very...

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Getting to the “fun songs”

On 21 Oct, 2015
Parenting, Practicing, Repertoire, Teaching philosophy
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"These songs are sooooo boring! Why can’t my child play more popular songs that we know?"   We hear this a lot, and we get it! When we decide to start studying an instrument, we imagine ourselves (or our children) playing our...

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Frustration

On 25 Apr, 2015
Parenting, Practicing, Teaching philosophy
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If you’ve ever spent an afternoon moving furniture, you know what it feels like to frustrate your muscles. That’s why they were sore the next day. If you made a habit of frustrating your muscles, they would naturally become stronger...

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Playing versus practicing

On 09 Feb, 2014
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Your piano teacher has asked you to practice a piece — let's say Burgmüller's "Arabesque." So you sit yourself at your piano, put the sheet music in front of you, and decide to practice. Within a few minutes, you've played...

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