Often the student is blamed for not being a natural reader, when it was really the method or teaching approach that was flawed.
The student develops the idea that reading music is not fun and that he is bad at it.
It is so important to lay the foundation correctly when developing a student’s relationship to the notated score!
One wrong assumption many methods or teachers seem …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 27 January 1756 - Vienna, 5 December 1791) spent much of his youth touring Europe with his family.
He would often give performances with his sister Nannerl for the royal crowd.
When Wolfgang was just eight years old, the family visited London for the first time.
There, Wolfgang met Johann Sebastian Bach youngest son, Johann Christian Bach, the man …
In April 1789, at thirty-three years old, Mozart was passing through Dresden and paid a visit to some friends.
A portrait artist named Dora (Doris) Stock was at the household that evening.
She made the drawing you see above, a portrait that has since become a famous one of Mozart.
According to Ms. Stock’s account of the evening, …
Trainers in India tie a small rope around the front leg of an adult elephant and then the elephant will not move more than a few feet in any direction, even though the other end of the rope is not tethered to anything.
No chains, no cages.
It was obvious that the elephant could, at any time, break …
It’s a beautiful piece and it falls nicely under the hands.
It is built upon a simple 4 chord harmonic pattern that repeats for the entire song and it only has a few technically challenging parts.
Every student that hears it loves it and wants to learn it too.
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