Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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“Taking breaks allows your brain and body to get the necessary recharge it needs to keep going,” says Brittany Johnson, a licensed mental health counselor. Keeping up the grind may seem fruitful, but it can negatively impact your long-term performance and mental health.
Sixty Fourth Note (Hemidemisemiquaver) Hemidemisemiquaver just sounds so much more fun than Sixty-fourth note! The Sixty-fourth note has 4 flags...
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Read More »Working from home has become an integral part of the transformed professional lifestyle during this coronavirus pandemic. There’s a lot of uncertainty about when it will be safe to go back to workplaces, as remote work policies continue. In these times of adjustment, it may be difficult to navigate around this way of life. Understand you are not alone and that you will get through this! Whether you are a workaholic or just really laid-back, it is important to stay energized and focused throughout the day in healthy ways. The key? It could be as simple as taking more breaks.
Cultural stereotypes and social conditioning can be one major reason for having fewer female guitarists. The belief that females play the piano,...
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“Hello from the other side, was the other side of being a grown-up, the other side of being with my friends and my ex-boyfriends. And also about...
Read More »If you wear yourself out everyday, without giving yourself time to rest, you will play a certain way. After a while, it will be "normal" for you to play in this strained state. So you may feel like you're playing better because when you take time off, you're giving your muscles time to heal.
Walking away from something and letting it "marinade" is a learning technique known as incubation. When conscious, incubation occurs in the sub-conscious mind where your brain will continue to essentially run series of diagnostic tests addressing the problem it has been presented with. When sleeping, incubation occurs in the unconscious mind, and some people might even have a dream about the problem they are dealing with. This has been shown in mice wherein a given mouse was presented with a complicated maze. When sleeping, electrodes attached to the mouse's brain illustrated the mouse running through the maze over and over, assimilated learned information. The next day, the mouse was able to make it through the maze with little problem. Incubation also has the added benefit allowing the person to approach the problem with a fresh perspective. Typically, extended breaks from an instrument are not encouraged as a musician could lose a lot of fine motor-control and stamina. That said, extended breaks can be beneficial. For example, they could give a musician ample time to forget their bad playing / practice habits as well as renewing their enthusiasm and vigor for playing. Small breaks (a few hours) are good and should be done often when practicing. Long, extended breaks (a week or more) should not be done frequently at all and in fact used sparingly. N.B. Mentally practicing is also quite beneficial. If taking a break from your instrument, taking a practice session to mentally rehearse your music can aide in your practice as well.
The chords are G, C and D and collectively they contain all the notes from the 'G major' scale. G, C and D are some of the most commonly used...
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But if the function of the note at a particular point in the piece is as the third note in the Gm scale, you can only write it B♭ and not A♯. A♯...
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Two people are usually able to handle a Console as long as there are no stairs or difficult obstacles. If there is a flight of stairs, all pianos...
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The truth is there's no law regarding “do not duplicate” keys. The engraved message found on many business keys is not legally binding – it's just...
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