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Education Articles - Play Piano - Avoid the 7 Most Common Piano Practice Errors - Amazines.com Article Search Engine

Let's go over the seven most common practice errors and the secrets to unlock flawless and effortless practice progress:

As a piano teacher or student are we not hearing these daily?

1. I just want to learn to play a piece – I do not have time for boring scales or theory

2. Metronome practice? You must be kidding!

3. The most important thing is to get the notes right

4. If you practice and make a mistake, just keep trying, eventually you will get it

5. Only people who cannot play piano need to write in finger numbers

6. Never mind practicing technique or learning theory, just practice a piece until you get it.

7. If I play a piece often enough I will be able to play it from memory.

Ever heard of these before? - Please, read the article to find my explanations! Enjoy and play well!

Shanti Ryle completed her Piano Guild High School DIploma Certificate

I am very happy to announce that Shanti Ryle of Temecula, CA completed her Piano Guild High School Diploma July 30, 2011. Shanti Ryle has been studying with Eva Martin Hollaus since 9.5 years. This is Shanti's 10th year in the Guild auditions with her 10th gold medal program. The requirement for a gold medal is to present a 10 - 15 piece program memorized and well prepared and performed.
In order to be able to participate Shanti needed to get her program approved by December last year, she needed to be in 12th grade and meet all technical and program qualifications.
Shanti completed her examination with flying colors. She performed a very demanding program that included the entire Beethoven Sonata "The Moonlight", the J. S. Bach WTC II f minor prelude and fugue, the Scott Joplin Waltz Bethena, Debussy Claire De Lune and Bruyeres, Lecuona Cordoba and the Rachmaninov Etude Tableaux op 33 no 8; besides all Major and minor scales, chords, cadences, inversion, modulations, arpeggios, sight reading and ear training.
Shanti also was awarded the graduating senior medallion and certificate in the advanced level in the MTAC Certificate of Merit (TM) earlier this year.
Congratulations to Shanti's outstanding accomplishments. 

The Piano Studio 12years ago

How time flies. This was my Piano Studio several years ago.

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Cassiopea M. Bostan, Pianist: Cassiopea (10) plays Invention 1-J.S.Bach

Cassiopea Bostan, age 10 performs the J.S. Bach 2-part Invention #1.
The piece is played very beautifully and musically. And I am glad this is a performance that is not so rushed as many performances of the Invention #1 are interpreted.