by Doug Hanvey | November 16, 2019 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano
Learn by Sight and by Ear Reading music is a vital skill, possessed by nearly all professional pianists. There is more music written for the piano than any other instrument. …Share...
by Doug Hanvey | March 2, 2019 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano
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by Doug Hanvey | July 8, 2017 | Teaching Piano
Every piano teacher has experienced the frustration of a student losing interest in a piece before he or she has mastered it. At worst, this becomes a pattern and the …Share...
by Doug Hanvey | March 18, 2017 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano
What does it take to succeed as an adult piano student? This simple formula gets to the heart of it: adult piano student success = long-term goal orientation x quantity …Share...
by Doug Hanvey | December 17, 2016 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano
In Part 1, I discussed performance guru Geoff Colvin’s assertion that superior performance is associated with “deliberate practice.” In this post I’ll consider how a pianist (indeed, any musician) …Share...
