Writing Music Your Way

You know…recently I did a promo for music and coffee. I’m not sure how it was perceived, but I hope it was something seen in a positive light. I strive for that. And, I also recently had the privilege of helping a friend who is trying to learn new ways to make music. We talked […]

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Two ‘Black’…Keys

We hope you’re having a nice Mother’s Day so far.  The weather here in New York City is magnificently sunny!  That’s after a couple of days of confusing temperatures and precipitation–snow?! huh?! You’ve got to be kidding me.  Lol!–Anyway, we had fun yesterday on the podcast talking about ways to imagine the group of two […]

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Finger Numbers

Yesterday’s podcasts–All about the finger numbers.  Were you into this topic?  It’s a basic criteria for playing the piano.  Some of my students like following the finger numbers.  Others don’t.  For this week’s fun music exercise: Explore terminology associated with finger numbers. Look up finger crossing. Search “glissando”. Come up with your own finger numbers […]

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Banana Hands

During yesterday’s CBTS podcast, we mentioned “banana hands”.  Banana hands seems to be a pop culture term to describe fingers on a person’s hands.  In the case of the recent COVID-19 crisis briefings, the Cuomo brothers have been associated with the funny term ‘banana hands’.  In any case, we wanted to have some fun this […]

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