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	<title>Everything Piano</title>
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		<title>What Is The Best Age To Begin Teaching A Child Piano?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Musical training during a very young age can be strikingly rewarding. In fact, most babies who are frequently exposed to perfectly tuned piano sounds and music have a tendency to automatically develop what is called “perfect pitch,” which is the ability to identify a musical note without any given reference.
This may seem unthinkable, but there [...]


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		<title>Ragtime Sheet Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ragtime is an incredibly upbeat, jazzed-up, feel-good musical genre that was most popular between 1897 and 1918. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of several American cities lie St. Louis and New Orleans, even years before ragtime music was published as popular piano sheet music.
Known as the “King of Rag,” Scott Joplin [...]


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		<title>Are You A Nervous Piano Player?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you get nervous when you find yourself in a room full of anxious relatives, friends, or complete strangers staring at you, eagerly waiting for you to blow them away with your amazing piano skills?
Believe me, I’ve been there. After more than a decade of participating in music festivals, competitions, annual recitals, conservatory examinations, and [...]


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		<title>The Art And Physics Of Mastering The &#8220;Trill&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are an intermediate to advanced piano player, it’s very likely that you’ve come across the trill in your compositions. Generally, a trill is shown in modern musical notation with the letters “tr” above the trilled note, and a wavy line that proceeds. In musical pieces composed during the baroque and early classical eras, [...]


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		<title>A Few Tips For Getting Up To Speed With Fast Pieces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I touched on the topic of practicing by breaking down difficult passages into small segments. When you break it down this way, you can maximize practice time and bring your playing up to speed in practically no time.
But how should you know exactly what speed to start at and progress toward? Like everything else, [...]


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		<title>Three Major Reasons Why You Should Practice Bar-By-Bar Segments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for not updating in quite some time, my computer had a complete virus meltdown and had to be stripped clean of everything and re-formatted.
Everyone gets frustrated with piano practice. In a perfect world, a piano player would be able to sit down at their piano and play a piece flawlessly. If life was [...]


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		<title>The Chord Attack Method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you've taken any formal piano lessons, you've probably been forced to practice something called "chords" as part of your technique work. Here, I'll talk about chords and the "chord attack" and explain why they are so helpful in playing music.


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		<title>This Is What It Looks Like After Some Serious Piano Practice Sessions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here's a fantastic photo of the mess I make when I practice piano.


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		<title>A Closer Look At The “Gravity Drop”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gravity is just the right force needed to play the piano. I'm going to dig deeper into exploring the methods of gravity in relation to playing the piano, and you'll be able to practice these methods for yourself. When you master the gravity drop, your piano playing will improve greatly. 


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		<title>How To Relax When Playing Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relaxation is one of the most important aspects you must learn to master during your practice sessions. Without it, you won't get far in improving. Read these tips to help you learn how to relax!


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