Posts Tagged "practice"

• Piano Practice Session – December 31st, 2009

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  Practice Session from December 31st, 2009

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• Neat TED Talk on Creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert

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  There are times I’ve compared creating to the task of tending a fire. Practice becomes a vigilance over something mysterious and powerful.
  Sitting by the keyboard daily and, in a way, waiting for the sounds to present is very different from demanding something from oneself. Practice invites the spark, [...]

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• What is Improvisation and Why Practice?

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  Music is a powerful method of communication. With any type of speech, a person may feel the urge to censor the self. And yet, it is this musical suppression that forms a chasm between sounds heard near the soul and those felt distant.
  Now, there is even brain imaging research to back up the [...]

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• Practicing Music: Golden Silence

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  If I can give one musical lesson over the Internet, it would be to play with silence.
  Whether you write electronica, folk, pop, or metal, I strongly believe this to be a worthwhile practice.
  At first, it seems a silly idea – how and why would one ever do such a thing?
  Well, to answer those questions [...]

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