We all have this moment: we practice each note to death thinking that will prepare us for a flawless performance. Only to find out that our fingers or body doesn’t work when it comes to the time to play. To make it worse, our fingers are cold as iceberg. As soon as we struggled to…
Many teachers share the same frustration as me: I am not sure if my child is interested in piano. Why should I spend more on beginners piano lessons? Here are my responses to the parents: Piano is a complicated activity Here is the list of things to do before a note is played: rhythm, notations,…
Sight Reading Sight reading is an important skill but also a very stressful one. It requires one to play a new piece of music with only a few minutes (or sometimes seconds) of preparation time. The unknown part and the fear of getting a wrong note are the two primary reasons why people are intimated…