Happy New Year! Welcome back! I hope this is a musical and creative year for everyone. In 2017, EN Music Studio will walk in the direction of: Fostering creativity for students of all ages. Creativity is important to everyone! I will foster creativity by encouraging students to create their own music while learning from the classic …
Hi Everyone, Today, we are doing a review on an article by Robert Kelly “Piano Tone Production“ When we’re beginning to learn piano, it can sometimes be a struggle to make what we play sound like what we want and expect to hear. In an era of instant gratification through technology and apps, the longer …
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What is Imaginative Play? Imaginative play, or pretend play, involves the child role playing situations that they have seen before. By doing this, they experiment with behaviours, problem solving, and empathy. For example, a child might pretend play to be the parent of their teddy bear, and has to deal with topics like feeding the bear …
Going slow is both the best tool a music student can have, and a student’s worst nightmare. Every student wants to play at lightning speed. Like the rest of us, little piano students want to get right into the fun and exciting parts, without having prepared correctly first. However, as the music gets progressively harder, …
The Problem of Hands Together Coordination More and more, I am noticing my students struggle to play the piano with both hands, and don looks of frustration when they realize that knowing how to play hand separately, does not always translate to playing both hands. Since most books have beginner piano players start with one hand …
