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One piano, one musician, and...twenty pages of sheet music. Things can get a little heated when you're expected to memorize all those notes in only a few weeks! Remember, though, they're just black dots on a page—they can't hurt you if you don't let them. Here are a few quick tips to help your memorization … Continue reading Quick Tips for Memorizing Long Piano Pieces
For musicians, but especially pianists, life is always about dedication, practice, and constant improvement. You have competition after competition, recital after recital, playing the same pieces over and over again until they are the best they can be. The question is, when, really, are you ready to show the world what you've got? What things … Continue reading 8 Key Signs You’re Going to Win Your Piano Competition
A couple weeks ago, I came face to face with every musician's greatest daydream and nightmare: I was asked to play at a piano dinner party by one of my mother's coworkers, and this said event was in less than an hour. I could have just done a half-baked job and memorized the rest of … Continue reading Beautiful Piano Pieces You Can Learn in One Hour