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<description><![CDATA[Having a Classical background, I used to only play the piano by notes. Now I've discovered some marvelous resources that have helped me to play by ear. I've played with many talented musicians for over 30 years and have been a piano teacher for over 15 years. I teach piano to all ages and at all levels. I am passionately committed to Music Education and Children's Literature. Dedicate yourself to what inspires you!]]></description>
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<title>Sounds Around Town</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:54:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you stop and think about it, we are surrounded by so many different kinds of sounds. Just close your eyes, be real still and listen very closely. What do you hear? I hear people talking and children playing when I arrive at the kindergarten music class where I teach rhythm.]]></description>
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<title>Herbal Handiwork</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:36:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Throughout my garden I have mounds of basil, parsley, dill, sage and rosemary growing. I make the most of my herb garden harvest by making herb oil, herb butter and pesto. Maybe you would like to try a variety of these ideas.]]></description>
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<title>4 Tips For Writing Fantasy Stories</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:06:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you feel overwhelmed because you never know how to come up with an opening line to your fantasy book? Most people feel a writer's block when they start writing their story because they do not know how to start.]]></description>
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<title>Ladle in Red</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:32:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On a cold winter's night, nothing beats a bowl of piping hot chili with a slice of your favorite bread, whether melt-in-your-mouth corn bread or toasted garlic bread! Last night the temperature was down to 33 degrees! Here in California, we're just not used to almost-freezing evenings.]]></description>
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<title>Starlight Sailor</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:26:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Starlight Sailor is a wonderful story I found through Barefoot Books Publishers. It's about a little boy (and his dog) who takes an adventurous journey across the water in his paper boat to a far away land. My three grandsons love to engage in pirate stories, fishing, sailing and everything about the sea.]]></description>
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<title>Ten Tips for Memorizing Music</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:43:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you memorize music by playing it over and over, hoping it will somehow stick in your brain after playing a song many times through? Sometimes this will work, especially if you're playing a short piece. If you've ever experienced forgetting where you are at a lesson or recital, you might want to try these ideas to make memorizing easier for you.]]></description>
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<title>Four Tips To Playing Scales</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:06:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Playing scales is a good thing for developing technique. I am not saying that one should sit down at the piano and practice scales and exercises for hours to obtain results. If you look at these points, you will acquire a great technique in just a few weeks.]]></description>
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<title>What Is a Piano?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:44:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A while back, I discovered a missing pencil had apparently fallen inside my piano and was blocking the hammer so that no sound was being produced. I started to take apart my piano and was inspired to write a bit about what I discovered and learned about this instrument.]]></description>
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<title>Kindergarten Music: Lesson Plan</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:22:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a kindergarten music teacher for one hour sure goes fast. It is so much fun and truly rewarding. There is lots of work in preparing for the upcoming day each week. The children look forward to our time of being together, learning all about music.]]></description>
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<title>Learn The Jazz Language</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:01:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I first started playing in a band as a keyboard player, I was not familiar with the speaking part of the music language, as a musician. Sometimes as musicians, we get introspective and start looking at why we play patterns or chord progressions the way we do. A wonderful comparison between speech language and improvising in music is that everyone learns to speak and have a conversation, as well as write in our given language.]]></description>
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<title>Piano Lesson: Ear Training</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:03:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ear training is especially important if you want to improvise, compose, or figure out melodies and chords to songs by ear. A good musical ear is an acquired skill, not a gift. And like other skills, it is acquired through practice.]]></description>
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<title>Piano Lesson: Preparation for Recital</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:00:14 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Performing in recitals can be stressful. Through the years, as a piano teacher I have found that my recitals were never mandatory but rather optional. The same applies to memorizing.]]></description>
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<title>Understanding Mixolydian</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:48:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Any music theory book will tell you that the Mixolydian Mode is the natural mode beginning on the fifth degree of the major scale. It is also made by lowering the seventh note of a major scale a half-step.]]></description>
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<title>Piano Lesson: Practice Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:36:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you practice the piano? Even if you are taking a break from piano lessons over the summer, you should still continue to practice.This way you will keep moving forward with your progress. Here are some tips to help you get started with piano practice early in the day, before any other activities.]]></description>
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<title>Augmented and Diminished Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:05:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you play three notes at the same time, you are playing a chord. Triads are chords that have three notes. What we learn is that those three notes are all stacked in thirds.]]></description>
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<title>What Is Latin Music?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:20:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I enjoy listening to Spanish music. Are you familiar with Spanish pianists Elena Martin and Jose Meliton? They play exciting pieces by Spanish composers in arrangements for two pianos.]]></description>
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<title>House Of The Rising Sun Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:34:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A very popular song that will add confidence to your piano playing is called The House Of The Rising Sun. It is an easy one to play and to sing along with.]]></description>
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<title>The II-V-I Chord Progression</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:58:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is true that when you know your chords, they in turn will make a progression. For example, the I, II and V chords of any key are found in a II-V-I chord progression.]]></description>
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<title>What Are Blue Notes?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:39:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Blue notes are specific flattened tones used in jazz and rock melodies. They create a specific quality of sound known as "blue."]]></description>
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<title>What Are Ornaments in Music?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 09:04:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ornaments are notes that decorate a tune like adding Christmas ornaments to a fir tree. In the past, music performers often made them up but later from the 17th century on, music composers started indicating ornaments as music symbols.]]></description>
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<title>Keyboard Tips and Tricks</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:15:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most classical pianists today own a grand or an upright piano. Grand pianos are also called horizontal pianos because the strings run horizontally, parallel to the floor. They are indeed grand and can measure from 4 1/2 to 10 feet long.]]></description>
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<title>Sight-Reading Practice Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 09:52:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sight-reading means playing through a piece for the first time. Every time you are given a new piece of music and looking it over, you are sight-reading. It can be very frustrating at first when you miss notes and struggle to play it. Did you know that you can practice sight-reading?]]></description>
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<title>Does Loud Also Mean Fast?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:28:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is natural to play specific music passages that are marked forte with lots of excitement. My piano students get pretty involved with a piece and begin playing without noticing that they have turned up the volume and increased their speed.]]></description>
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<title>The Art of Piano Chord Voicings</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Art of Voicing is a manner in which one distributes or spaces the notes of chords. When you listen to music, you probably focus on the melody. That is the familiar part of a tune that is easy to hear.]]></description>
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<title>Diatonic Harmony To The Musician</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:20:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When composers choose the notes or chords that accompany a melody this is called the harmony. Sometimes all the notes of a chord are played together; in other places they might be played one note at a time, as in arpeggios.]]></description>
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<title>About Pitch</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:21:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pitch is about how high or low a note is. The most important component of music is sound. Without the notes of different pitches, we couldn't have music.]]></description>
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<title>Changing Your Piano Speed</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:24:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tempo is the speed of any piece of music. Just like driving a car and seeing the 45 M.P.H. speed sign, it is the same for Tempo words in music.]]></description>
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<title>Five Building Blocks of Music</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:41:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was observing my three-year-old grandson playing with his wooden blocks and watching him turn these blocks into some beautiful buildings. I thought about how books are structured with letters, words and punctuation marks that turn into stories.]]></description>
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<title>Left-Hand Bass Parts</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:58:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Did you know that Errol Garner, the jazz pianist, was left-handed? So, I got to thinking about left-hand parts on the piano and how much time I invested in piano practice to improve and strengthen my bass lines.]]></description>
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<title>Top 15 Russian Composers</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:05:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rich traditions of Russian music began around the 10th century with wandering minstrel singers performing heroic poems. Sadly, these made up stories were not recorded until the 1600s.]]></description>
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<title>How To Use Dynamics in Piano Playing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:24:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I teach piano students a classical piece of music, I first look for technical correctness. I observe piano posture and that sight-reading skills have improved.]]></description>
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<title>Triplets Vs Eighth Notes</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:42:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried doing two different things at once? You guessed it, like patting your head and rubbing your tummy?]]></description>
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<title>How To Play A Gliding Glissando</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:09:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sliding rapidly over the piano keys is called glissando. Technically speaking, that is the correct terminology.]]></description>
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<title>Methods of Playing The Piano</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:37:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I first studied Classical Music, I remember my piano teacher saying over and over that I needed correct piano posture. I received her advice at an early age and I remember that most of her teachings were under the umbrella of the Leschetizky Method.]]></description>
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<title>How To Play Piano Without Sheet Music</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:36:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Looking for some advice on how to memorize music? Playing without sheet music is possible. Here are my own challenges and triumphs.]]></description>
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<title>What If There Isn't A Transpose Button?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:09:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Suppose you're the new keyboard player in the band. This rock band just hired you and welcomed you aboard. Now, you're going to your first gig tonight.]]></description>
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<title>How To Play A Suspended Chord</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:04:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The suspended chord (sometimes called a suspended 4th chord) is constructed from the major scale using the first (1), fourth (4), and fifth (5) notes of the scale. The symbol for a suspended chord is the letters sus (or sus4), placed after the letter name of the chord.]]></description>
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<title>The Basics of Relative Pitch</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:16:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Relative Pitch is the ability to be able to listen to music and identify intervals between pitches (and even chords). Having relative pitch is different from ideal pitch. This is an article on how to listen effectively.]]></description>
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<title>Learn To Play A German Christmas Carol</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:28:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have fond memories of being asked to play "O Christmas Tree" when I was a kid. My Mom would invite all the neighbors to come over to hear me play the piano. No, I wasn't scared... well maybe just a little.]]></description>
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<title>Three Elements of Traditional Music</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:49:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three elements of traditional music are the melody, rhythm and harmony. Most of the music we hear and play is based upon three-note chords called triads. So, three or more tones sounding together form a chord. An interval consists of two tones, but a chord consists of three or more tones. And three or more tones sounding together form a chord.]]></description>
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<title>Star Power of The Potato</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:20:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many centuries now, the potato has been nominated in its supporting role shared with the spotlight on the main bird, the turkey, celebrated during Thanksgiving meals everywhere around the world. This is a befitting ode to the lowly, humble potato.]]></description>
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<title>Lesson on The Circle of Fifths</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:18:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often times when one refers to the Circle of Fifths we think about Scales. Today I would like to expose some secrets in the Circle of Fifths. Whether you are just beginning to play the piano or you are a seasoned musician, learning the theory behind the Circle of Fifths is an extremely important and valuable tool to have.]]></description>
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<title>Order of Sharps and Flats on the Staff</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:12:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The accidentals of the key signatures are placed on the staff in the same order of appearance as in the circle of fifths. For sharp keys the first sharp appears on the F line (5th line, counting from bottom to top line) of the treble clef and on 4th line (counting bottom to top) of the bass clef.]]></description>
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<title>Video Making and Marketing</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:19:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have found that putting a video on your website will increase its effectiveness and selling power. Yet you may not be using it simply because you don't know how to get from the "video idea" in your head to having the video running on your website. Here are three simple steps I have discovered that you can use right now and put the selling power of video to work for you.]]></description>
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<title>4 Piano Types and How To Decorate Them</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:52:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Grand pianos are also called horizontal pianos, because the strings run horizontally (parallel to the floor). They have longer strings and bigger soundboards than upright pianos, which gives them richer, deeper, and stronger sound. They can measure from 4 1/2 to 10 feet long.]]></description>
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<title>An Island in the Sun</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:10:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All young lads seem to love a day at sea. With their telescope at hand and constantly being on the look out for the birds above and the many fish below, a day at the beach will be enjoyed by all who read this delightful children's book, An Island in the Son.]]></description>
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<title>5 Piano Moving Tips</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:21:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I love to hear all genres of music on the piano. The instrument is so different than a keyboard. I like them as well but there's something quite special about acoustic instruments. Now pianos can cost you quite a bit of money these days to own. The simplest piano can be around a few hundred dollars and then the price escalates to thousands of dollars on more complex ones.]]></description>
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<title>A Turning Point in History - The Invention of the Pianoforte</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:21:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At the turn of 18th Century, pianoforte was invented. This gave a new 'face' to music culture in Europe. The organ, the oldest keyboard instrument has been played for several centuries.]]></description>
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<title>Chord Intervals</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An interval in music is the distance in pitch between two notes. The interval is counted from the lower note to the higher one, with the lower counted as 1. Intervals can be named generally by merely counting upwards (by going forwards using the letters of the musical alphabet) from one note to the other, inclusively. ]]></description>
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<title>The Relative Minor</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:44:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If I were to ask you for a list of sad songs, what would come to mind? Perhaps you would say Moody River by Pat Boone, maybe Eva Cassidy's Songbird. What about Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven?]]></description>
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<title>Inversion of Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:30:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are inversions in music? There are inverted chords, inverted melodies and inverted intervals. A chord's inversion describes the relationship of its bass to the other tones in the chord. For instance, a C major triad contains the tones C, E and G; its inversion is determined by which of these tones is used as the bottom note in the chord.]]></description>
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<title>The Three Primary Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:55:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you go about harmonizing a melody? It helps to know that in any key there are three chords that are especially important. Those are the chords built on the first, fourth, and fifth notes of the scale.]]></description>
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<title>Constructing Simple Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:52:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A chord is a group of notes played or sung simultaneously. In popular music the chords are usually represented by symbols that appear over the vocal line like C, Am, Dm, and G7.]]></description>
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<title>How Notes Move on the Staff</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:10:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Notes move on the staff in three ways: Step, Skip, Repeat. Notes on or above the middle line have down stems. Notes below the middle line have up stems.]]></description>
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<title>Music Alphabet and Staff</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:35:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The music alphabet is made of seven letters. These are letters used over and over on the keyboard to name the white keys.]]></description>
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<title>Rhythm in Music</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:15:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Different kinds of notes are used to make rhythm in music. Some notes are short, while others are held for a longer time. Another way to put it, music has a pattern of short and long tones. The combination of these tones written in notes is called rhythm. Here are some music notes to learn.]]></description>
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<title>How to Sit at the Piano</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:02:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ready for your first piano lesson? Sitting at the piano should be a comfortable feeling right from the beginning.]]></description>
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<title>How to Breathe - Especially For Singing</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 13:03:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One thing that I do enjoy is playing the keyboard and singing at the same time. In the past I have sung on worship teams but I am up for the challenge when singing directly into a mike, occasionally looking at my piano hands and remembering to breathe!]]></description>
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<title>Sticky Piano Keys</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 11:31:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes piano keys or notes sustain long after you release them. Have you ever wondered what to do about those sticking keys? How about those squeaks and rattles, or a "touch" that is too sluggish or too "light"? Other times you might hear an echo that results from a hammer striking multiple times with just one blow. So, what do you do?]]></description>
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<title>Syncopation - Workshop of Rhythm</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:16:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Syncopation is what I firmly stress with my intermediate students. You see, syncopation is the effect that comes about when a normally strong beat, such as beats 1 and 3 in 4/4 time, while an offbeat such as beats 2 and 4 is made strong.]]></description>
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<title>How to Form Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:50:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although chord finders are valuable tools on the Internet, what do we do when we're sitting at the piano and don't have access to the computer, trying to figure out chords? Here's a breakdown on forming many chords you'll use in your piano playing.]]></description>
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<title>Damper Pedal Practice</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:37:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Take an old method book on pedaling and look at the pedal symbols at the bottom of each measure. Study the patterns of when the pedal is held down and when the pedal is lifted. Check out the chord changes in the progression. If played correctly, your music will not sound like one long blur!]]></description>
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<title>Carol of the Bells</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:54:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I finished the year of 2008, teaching my students the beautiful song, Carol of the Bells.  It is an easy song to play, filled with recognizable patterns, melody lines and repeated chords. The lyrics and music were adapted by Peter J. Wilhousky, copyright 1936.]]></description>
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<title>Rock and Roll and Beyond</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:07:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rock and roll happened in the mid-1950's. It took America by storm, then Europe, then the world. It was a part of my world and I listened to the words of Elvis singing, but I can't help falling in love with you, over and over.]]></description>
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<title>Science of Sound</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:02:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you are playing an instrument, speaking, or just making a noise, the way the sound is made, and the way it travels, is exactly the same. The difference between music and noise is that musical sounds are organized into patterns with pitch and rhythm. While noise is usually made up of random, disorganized sounds.]]></description>
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<title>Fun With Modes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:57:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MODAL MUSIC began in ancient Greece. Influence by the Greeks, the early church used a system of MODES- almost all music written before the 1500's was based on the various modes. Many well-known folk songs are modal. In recent years modal music has become more and more popular, and modern composers use modal melodies and harmonies in their compositions.]]></description>
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<title>What is Jazz?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:10:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What's the difference between jazz and classical music ? I would say that in jazz, the musicians improvise, or makeup, their own version of a tune, instead of playing notes that are written by the composer. This means that player's almost never perform a piece the same way twice.]]></description>
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<title>How to Play Suspended Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Suspended chords leave you hanging in mid air. They create suspense or anticipation. They sound and feel as though they should be resolved. I use suspended chords in endings. Also, they are perfect for extending the measure to do a run in your right hand.]]></description>
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<title>Play a Song by Ear</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:53:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can you play by ear? Well, I come from a note reading background and when I first heard the expression, Can you play by ear?  I thought to myself that's silly, how does one put their ear to the piano and play the keys?]]></description>
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<title>Understanding 2-5-1 Progressions</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:10:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you listen to music, you have definitely heard a 2-5-1 progression. They are found in just about any type of music regardless of style, genre, or rhythmical pattern. It is commonly the series of chords that end a song or phrase. In this chord progression, the 2 chord leads to the 5 chord which in turn, produces a strong pull towards the ending chord (which is usually the 1st major chord of the scale).]]></description>
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<title>Inside Changes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:21:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A changed attitude has an effect on everything. Having peace and joy is a great treasure indeed. Many of you remember James Stewart in A Wonderful Life. Each and every one of us has a plan and a purpose for being here. Many things depend upon our outlook, I would think!]]></description>
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<title>Learn Chords to House of the Rising Sun</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:16:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you want to learn chords to House of The Rising Sun? Well, now you can! As a piano teacher, I have taught this song to many students. It is a simple song and it is easy to learn. Pretty much everyone has heard it and wants to play it.]]></description>
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<title>John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:16:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Would you agree that John Mayer is a brilliant singer- songwriter? Amazing! And he is only 31 years old!]]></description>
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<title>How Do I Harmonize These Melodies?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:21:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So, how do you play your right hand with your left hand by ear? Are you used to reading those music notes on the lines and spaces?]]></description>
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<title>Scale Degree Chords</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:33:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A scale degree chord is a chord built off each scale degree in the major scale. All chords are first built on 3rds. The notes are changed to form specific kinds of chords.]]></description>
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<title>Identify Music Phrases</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 13:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For a tune to make sense, it needs a structure, just as writing needs sentences and punctuations. Tunes are built from groups of notes that sound as though they belong together as an idea. These groups are known as PHRASES, and are usually separated by a tiny silence when the music is sung or played.]]></description>
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<title>How To Practice The Piano In Five Easy Steps</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:56:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here are a few simple steps to learn easy and fast ways to practice the piano. The most important step is not the amount of time spent on practicing but the quality of time (how well you use your practice time). Remember to visit your piano everyday and say "hi" to it! A little bit of daily practice is much better than none at all! Ready to get started? ]]></description>
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<title>Can You Harmonize The Melody?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:16:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can you accompany "one-fingered" melodies with full sounding chords? It's easy to play the melody of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", "Row Row Row Your Boat", "Happy Birthday", "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Jingle Bells" with one finger. The hardest part is finding the right chords to accompany your melody. ]]></description>
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