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Triad-Exercises 12 Jun 2013 | 06:56 pm
In this article, I’m going to share with you a few ways to practice your triads that will add some ‘spice’ to your playing. I’ll be covering these techniques in a future video lesson. This article is ...
Notes From The Bungalow Vol. 15 11 Jun 2013 | 08:54 pm
MOOC STAR During a recent telecast of Charlie Rose, a nightly PBS talk show, the host mediated a roundtable discussion about the rise of Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs. One of the guests, Anan...
Creating Your Personal Piano Plan 2 May 2013 | 09:36 pm
Creating Your Own Personal Piano Plan It is a challenge to learn an instrument. You begin with a burning desire to express yourself through music but soon you realize just how much of a commitment it ...
Notes From The Bungalow Vol. 14 2 May 2013 | 07:28 pm
Let’s Rock Again December 22, 2012 marked 10 years since Joe Strummer’s death. Strummer was a singer/songwriter/guitarist and founder of the Clash, the only band that mattered, or so it and its follow...
How To Get Better At The Piano 21 Feb 2013 | 02:08 am
How Do I get Better At The Piano? Many students write in to me every week asking this very question. In this article, I’m going to lay out some of my ideas and the concepts that I’ve learned over the ...
Using PianoWithWillie MIDI Files 17 Nov 2012 | 12:13 am
What is MIDI? MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and it is a way for computers and keyboards to talk to one another. When recording a keyboard (digital piano), we normally think of r...
Why Willie Almost Quit Piano 21 Sep 2012 | 10:13 pm
A student asked me in the forum to share a little about my background. So, here is a little bit about how I learned the piano, what I’ve learned as a teacher and why I almost quit the piano when I was...
Notes From The Bungalow Vol. 13 20 Jul 2012 | 11:50 pm
My Least Favorite Question At the height of my time as a working musician, I was 22-years-old. I was a college graduate, fresh out of school and clinging to the idea that my roots rock outfit, which ...
My Lonely Piano 30 Jun 2012 | 12:11 am
How Piano Projects Keep You On Track While teaching a private student this week, we were discussing the value and merit of practice. Basically, “Why do all of this practicing in the first place?” Th...
Notes From The Bungalow Vol. 12 30 Jun 2012 | 12:11 am
Eli, Tom Hanks, and two Mona Lisas, part three Recap: For those who have not read Part One or Part Two of this trilogy, this column may not make sense. Then again, it may make perfect sense for that ...
