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September 06, 2016

The piano teacher’s word cloud

The piano teacher’s word cloud
I love my job teaching kids. But I often have a feeling like I’m a broken record. The other day, one of my students came to the lesson very prepared and when I asked him what happened, he looked at me and said “I just did what you said to do.” (facepalm) So I decided yesterday to compile all the words that I say most often about practice. It was a fun exercise for myself and I wonder how my words overlap with yours. 🙂 “Practice in sections repeatedly. Hands separate and together. Each time th...

September 03, 2016

4 types of memory and how to improve them for performance

4 types of memory and how to improve them for performance
Preparing for recitals is difficult especially when they happen often. I push students to always work on their memory of some piece. I tend to think of memory as a muscle that has potential to falter, but if it’s trained properly, it’s unlikely to mess up. The problems happen when students limit themselves to one or two forms of memory. So what types of memory are there? 1. "Muscle" memory – Although in reality, your muscles don't have memory, this is the memory of how it feels to do somethin...