I’ve always hated listening to old recordings. I’ve often found recordings of myself playing similar to how others hear videos of themselves talking. It …
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Memorization: A Mind Game, Part II
Last week, I talked about memorizing music and the difference between muscle memory and conscious memorization. Today, I explain some of the techniques that I use …
Memorization: A Mind Game
In the first part of a two-week series, I look at how music is memorized and what the dangers are of memorizing by repetition. …
Happy Birthday, Beethoven!!!
Everyone knows about Beethoven. Hailed by musicians as the greatest composer of all time, listened to by little children in music classes across the world, …
A Return to Collaborative Music Making … Finally?
It’s been a while. It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog, it’s been a while since I’ve gone to school, and it’s …
Developing Uniqueness and Personal Style
We all know the feeling that no matter what you do, you’ll be overshadowed by someone else. It seems like …
Music and the Young Generation
It seems as if explaining through words why I’m drawn to music is as impossible as mapping all of the intricacies of the …