The Lesson Line is a newsletter providing special information for students taking Simply Music piano lessons through Potluck Creative Arts. Get useful tips to help make your piano lesson experience as successful as possible!
In the last Lesson Line piece, we looked at an optimal approach for practicing individual songs, in particular Foundation pieces. Let’s now start to take a look at how to think about your practice time so that the work you do on individual songs adds up to the efficient and effective development of your...
For the last few Lesson Line pieces, I’ve focused on some “big picture” ideas with the hope of helping you develop a constructive way of thinking about lessons and practice in general. Since all of that relies on getting each individual song as smooth as possible right from the start, let’s zoom in now...
The goal in learning to play any new piece is to get to a point where you are able to play it smoothly and evenly, hardly ever making mistakes. Because that’s the goal, you might think that if you can do that with all your songs, you’re in great shape. There’s a possibility, though,...
Everyone makes mistakes. Every musician makes mistakes. Every professional musician makes mistakes. It’s normal to make mistakes. So why do we have such a problem with mistakes? Well, we actually have two related problems with mistakes, one we know and one we don’t know that keeps the first one in place. We all tend...
Welcome to the Potluck Creative Arts Lesson Line, a newsletter providing special information for students taking Simply Music piano lessons through Potluck Creative Arts. This introductory piece for the Lesson Line is the first of many writings to come where you’ll get useful tips to help make your piano lesson experience as successful as...
