How to Play in Swing Rhythm using scales. Once you get comfortable playing your scales in Swing, you can move on to playingErie Canal, which is from BOOK 1 of my instructional series calledUpper Hands Piano: A Method for Adults 50+ to Spark the Mind, Heart and Soulavailable onAmazon. W...
. I'd expect a quick and simple reply to the effect that the pool of competing musicians is bigger than the pool of go players, but I'm inclined to be a bit sceptical of that for various reasons (e.g. over two millennia the go pool has been pretty large; does big pool really app...
1,000 years later, their interest spread to Western Europe. In the sixth century, Boethius, a Roman senator, wrote the influentialDe Institutione Musica(The Principles of Music), bringing the Pythagorian understanding of maths and music to medieval Western Europe. ...
The great Polish Romantic swore by no more than two hours of practice a day. Writing to one of his pupils, Delfina, he wrote: “Once again I repeat – don’t play more than two hours a day; that is quite enough during the summer.” ...
Playing a musical instrument, especially the piano, is a testament to the intricate dance of our motor systems. Brain scans of musicians highlight heightened activity in regions like the motor cortex and cerebellum, both critical for motion and coordination. Notably, the cerebellum emerges as the ...
When I hear Shania Twain's "You're Still The One," it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad's PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his own life]. He'd been listening to her album, and I played it as I tidied up. Whenever I hear the ...