by neil | Dec 14, 2016 | Practice Challenges, Practice Tips
Practice Challenges 6, 7, & 8 Preparing for your performance Congratulations! You’ve worked so hard to get to this point. It’s been several weeks since we started learning this semester’s songs and each step we’ve taken has brought you closer to mastery. Let’s...
by neil | Nov 16, 2016 | Practice Challenges, Practice Tips, TAB Free Zone
Practice Challenges 4 & 5 The “process” for practicing new music We all have experienced what it’s like to practice a new piece of music that we’ve never heard before. It can be really difficult. The following proven practice method will help you learn new music...
by neil | Nov 16, 2016 | Guest Post, Practice Tips
Here’s a post from guest author, Doug Hanvey from Portland Piano Lab. Doug is an expert on helping students learn how to practice. He is the author of the instructional methods The Creative Keyboardist and 88 Keys to the Blues and the composer of hundreds of...
by neil | Nov 7, 2016 | Practice Challenges, Practice Tips, TAB Free Zone
Practice Challenge 3 Right and left hand fingerings This week’s practice challenge will help you get experience finding solid left and right hand fingerings so that you can successfully train your hands to execute each note or chord effectively and efficiently!...
by neil | Oct 16, 2016 | Practice Challenges, Practice Tips, TAB Free Zone
Practice Challenge Week 1 Note mapping This week’s practice challenge will help you learn how to use fretboard note maps to make reading notes on the guitar, bass, or uke easy. Have you ever felt confused when looking at musical notation? Have you ever wondered how...
by neil | Mar 23, 2016 | Guitar Care, Instrument Care, Practice Tips
Happy Spring Break! Here we are a few days into Spring Break and I’m really getting the most out of my stay-cation. Not that I’m just sitting around doing nothing. Actually, the break has given me a chance to catch up on many office tasks that started...
