piano playing
piano playing
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by Duane Shinn - 2007-02-14
We've all heard pianists who make us drool with musical jealousy when they play, using a tool box full of lighting-fast runs and clever fills that have us clamoring for more. I well recall hearing Err...
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by Duane Shinn - 2007-03-08
It's no secret that professional piano players use techniques that amateur piano players don't. So what else is new? Professional golfers use techniques that amateur golfers don't use (at least not ve...
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by Duane Shinn - 2007-03-20
Playing by ear is the ability to play a piece of music (or, eventually, learn an instrument) by simply listening to it repeatedly. The majority of self-taught musicians began their education this way;...
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by Edward A. Weiss - 2007-03-28
I really love improvisations that go nowhere. Improvisations where there is no goal… just an impulse to follow feelings in the current moment.In fact, some have described this kind of music as self-in...
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by Mike Shaw - 2007-07-19
The hand in its relation to playing the piano keyboard is the final stage in a process that normally will start with the eyes or possibly the ears. While the eyes and ears are not absolutely necessary...
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by Mike Shaw - 2007-07-29
The peculiarities of the mechanism of any instrument constitute in all cases a law for the application of the energy to be expended upon that mechanism. In so far as energy is correctly applied, the m...
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by Mike Shaw - 2007-07-30
The mechanism of any musical instrument must establish in all cases a law for the application of the energy to be used upon that mechanism. When energy is correctly applied, the machine or mechanism s...
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by Mike Shaw - 2007-08-02
The damper of the piano is the only means of stopping the string's vibrations, which would otherwise continue, longer than is wanted. In violin playing, the same stoppage of tone takes place when the ...
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by Michael David Shaw - 2007-08-03
The damper of the piano is the only means of stopping the string's vibrations, which would otherwise continue, longer than is wanted. In violin playing, the same stoppage of tone takes place whe...
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by Chrisg - 2008-06-25
I've come across several websites where people have claimed that music can help you burn fat ! Amazing. But is this true? I needed to research some more to find out if this is correct. I'm going to sh...