Category: Learning
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Focused listening – part one
(this was originally sent out to my email newsletter subscribers – join my list here) Hi all, We’re often surrounded by music; it can be a soundtrack to everything we do (exercise, work, cooking, reading, watching movies, etc.) and yet it can be very rare to actually sit down and just listen to something, focused…
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Recent videos!
Some recent videos, including my 2020 New Year’s Improvisation: A music video and Harp Tuesday episode on Salzedo’s Concert Variations on ‘O Tannenbaum‘: And a couple other recent Harp Tuesday episodes:
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My piano debut! :)
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New video series – Slow Motion Monday!
While doing my last Harp Tuesday episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YcSwbtjYA4 which features a look at me playing in slow motion) I got the idea to start a new video series. On the weeks when I don’t do a Harp Tuesday episode, instead I’ll do a “Slow Motion Monday” video. These videos will be quite short – a…
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Musings on Mistakes – part one
As I mentioned in the return of “Sunday Spotlight”, I want to do more writing this year. I’m going to start with a 3 part series talking about mistakes and learning. In this post I’m going to look at societal attitudes towards mistakes, as well as our own relationship with them. In part 2 I’ll…
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Harp Tuesday episode 59 – Dynamics and control!
New episode of Harp Tuesday is up!
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Getting rid of mistakes?
Had a friend on Facebook post asking whether I had any Harp Tuesday videos dealing with not making mistakes while performing. Apart from my episode on Nerves and Performance Anxiety (which, by the way, I think is a pretty good episode), I don’t. Heck, I make lots of mistakes while performing. Got me thinking, though,…
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Harp Tuesday episode 56 is up – Thoughts on Practicing
New episode of Harp Tuesday is up – a few thoughts on effective practice: