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- by Celestite
- 24 Mar 2008, 15:11
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Inspirational piano music to listen to advice
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29800
If they like Deep Purple, how about Led Zeppelin? I don't know if it's still available but I have the piano score for Physical Graffiti and Stairway to Heaven works brilliantly on piano. You just HAVE to go to You tube and see Rachmaninov had big hands. As Gill says, it is hysterical - I cried laugh...
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 23:00
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Left handed trills
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20058
Hmm, proper teacher - what's one of them, then, Gill? Someone once commented I wasn't like any other teacher they'd ever come across. I'm still not sure whether it was a compliment or an insult! Anyway, on the subject of trills, the hand you play it with is irrelevant- there are a fair few occasions...
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 22:44
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: Piano Tuning fees in the UK
- Replies: 41
- Views: 31772
In 40 odd years of playing (ouch!) I have got through a fair few tuners, as you can imagine! The chap who looks after my 6'8 Bechstein is brilliant, by far the best tuner I have ever found and a jolly nice bloke to boot! He is Steinway trained, knows his stuff, travels absolutely miles and charges &...
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 22:20
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Inspirational piano music to listen to advice
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29800
Hi Silvermist How brilliant that you not only notice your son's enthusiasm but are keen to develop it - you'd be amazed how many parents I come across who think it is enough to deposit their offspring on me for half an hour a week and they'll just turn into the next Horowitz! Music, like children th...
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 22:07
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 20:51
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 11:11
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 01:12
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 23 Mar 2008, 01:11
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 22 Mar 2008, 20:56
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: On its death bed
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21341
- by Celestite
- 21 Mar 2008, 20:36
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Relearning the Piano
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10480
Hi Maco Good for you! I would echo Markymark and Sammick's comments and add that you will ultimately save yourself a lot of aches and pains by going to a decent teacher as posture is often a much neglected but vital element to playing the piano (or indeed any instrument) and you wouldn't believe wha...
- by Celestite
- 21 Mar 2008, 20:26
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: On its death bed
- Replies: 24
- Views: 21341
- by Celestite
- 21 Mar 2008, 20:20
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 21 Mar 2008, 20:17
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
Hey Dave, I'm Queen of the Wafflers! If it ever becomes an olympic sport, I'm a dead cert for Gold! Good choice of pieces. How are you getting on with the ornaments in the Sarabanda? I checked out These Music Exams and you can download it from the download centre on the ABRSM home page. If it makes ...
- by Celestite
- 20 Mar 2008, 20:38
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
I second that, Gill! Distance learning at its finest, eh? I'll have another look at the ABRSM website and check, but it's at the back of my mind These Music Exams is a downloadable pdf file. It may be that you have to have a candidate number to log in and download, in which case I'll get on to it fo...
- by Celestite
- 20 Mar 2008, 10:42
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
Hi Dave I'm fine, ta, about to go and do some practice while the little chap's with his childminder (me time today instead of tomorrow cos the hoards will be here!) Just a quick note about the ABRSM system. You choose one piece from each of the three sections for the exam and should be aiming to pro...
- by Celestite
- 20 Mar 2008, 10:42
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
Hi Dave I'm fine, ta, about to go and do some practice while the little chap's with his childminder (me time today instead of tomorrow cos the hoards will be here!) Just a quick note about the ABRSM system. You choose one piece from each of the three sections for the exam and should be aiming to pro...
- by Celestite
- 20 Mar 2008, 08:06
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 19 Mar 2008, 21:52
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
Yo Gill, of course we're still young and gorgeous :oops: (well, it's the thought that counts, in my case!) Good for your friend-I was classed as an elderly prima gravida at 37 so goodness knows what that made me at 45 second time round. On the subject of snakes, anyone know what the snake in Jungle ...
- by Celestite
- 19 Mar 2008, 21:01
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
- by Celestite
- 18 Mar 2008, 23:26
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
We all be fine and dandy, thank ee kindly! Hope the same goes for you both. Good old Ronnie Corbett, remember it well! A mere 38? You are but a babe in arms! I may have a two year old in tow but I am a positively ancient 47 (ouch, there, I said it!) While I was practicing this morning it struck me t...
- by Celestite
- 18 Mar 2008, 00:04
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: CONCENTRATE!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 40276
Hi Dave! Interesting you mention the meds. Years ago I was put on a cocktail of amytriptaline (or something like that!) and Prozac and the effect the Prozac had on my mental processes as far as the piano goes was phenomenal! I memorized the G minor Brahms Rhapsody in a couple of days in a way I'd ne...
- by Celestite
- 15 Mar 2008, 20:29
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 14 Mar 2008, 20:21
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Evening Dave and Gill! How unfair is it that alcohol makes you utterly fearless but gives you a handful of left thumbs? My performance nerves always manifest themselves with the most dreadful shakes, not helpful in this profession, and I did once try beta blockers to combat this. They worked brillia...
- by Celestite
- 14 Mar 2008, 15:06
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 14 Mar 2008, 15:00
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 14 Mar 2008, 14:59
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 14 Mar 2008, 10:49
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Hi again Dave It will be interesting to see if you have the same problem when it comes to playing to a teacher. It's very common to make a complete hash of something you can play with your eyes shut when there's a teacher or anyone else listening. How about this as a mental approach? If you could pl...
- by Celestite
- 13 Mar 2008, 21:28
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Hi Dave I echo Gill's comments on that one. What I have done in the past with pupils who have wanted a tangible measure of their progress but either not wanted to or not been able to raise the courage to take exams officially is to prepare them for the exam and then just given them a pseudo exam, or...
- by Celestite
- 13 Mar 2008, 14:50
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 13 Mar 2008, 13:58
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 12 Mar 2008, 23:41
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 12 Mar 2008, 21:44
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Absolutely-strike while the iron's hot! When I first met my hubby he decided he would learn to play the piano, something he'd always wanted to do. All was going well until we started living together and he stopped playing because he couldn't handle the idea of practicing in front of his piano teache...
- by Celestite
- 11 Mar 2008, 21:51
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Quentin Crisp would be proud of me - my mother once asked if I'd moved the furniture round because the place looked so different, when all I'd done was a little dusting. When I do it, the whole world notices! When I was at college, it took two hours to practice the 144 different scales and arpeggios...
- by Celestite
- 11 Mar 2008, 20:31
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Ah, Barking, I know it well! (I actually lived in Barkingside many eons ago - I kid you not!) In my vast experience of life and especially as a muso and a mother I have found sanity not to be all it's cracked up to be. It definitely pays to be two planks short of a full floor, imho! Congrats on mast...
- by Celestite
- 09 Mar 2008, 16:02
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Hi Dave That is exactly how I view my piano - it's what I am when I'm not Mum! The only reason I don't listen to piano music is because invariably, when I put the radio on, it's playing something I used to perform when I was at college, which only serves to highlight how far things have slid in term...
- by Celestite
- 07 Mar 2008, 20:20
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 06 Mar 2008, 23:44
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 09 Feb 2008, 16:58
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 09 Feb 2008, 15:07
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Tutoring in a school
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9431
I know it's a while since you posted your enquiry but if you're still looking to increase your teaching practice, there is a very good website for music teachers. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it here, so if I've broken any rules, I humbly apologise, please don't shoot me down in flames Mr Mod...
- by Celestite
- 08 Feb 2008, 19:22
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 08 Feb 2008, 14:28
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: I have 500 GBP for a piano - what will it buy me?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23135
- by Celestite
- 07 Feb 2008, 22:38
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: I have 500 GBP for a piano - what will it buy me?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23135
I can echo Openwood's experience with one of my own. It was years ago now, but I was asked to find a piano for one of my more gifted pupils (I love it when they ask me that - I get to play loads of different pianos without parting with a penny!) I just happened to be nosing around an auction rooms w...
- by Celestite
- 07 Feb 2008, 22:14
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 05 Feb 2008, 21:25
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 05 Feb 2008, 20:19
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Thank you so much for the words of encouragement, Gill - we must come from the same era of 21 year olds! I'm sure I've read somewhere that you're a piano tuner, haven't I? In which case I'm delighted you play as much as you do. I've got through a fair few tuners in my time and have yet to find one w...
- by Celestite
- 04 Feb 2008, 23:44
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: short virtuosic romantic pieces
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12266
- by Celestite
- 04 Feb 2008, 23:40
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
- by Celestite
- 04 Feb 2008, 20:50
- Forum: Learning & Teaching Piano
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 65
- Views: 41974
Thanks for the empathy, Samick, it's much appreciated to know I'm not the only one struggling with this! I've been teaching for over 20 years and I actually find it has the opposite effect on me in that it makes me yearn for the way I used to be able to play. Trouble is, by the time I get to put the...
- by Celestite
- 04 Feb 2008, 20:36
- Forum: Piano Advice
- Topic: I have 500 GBP for a piano - what will it buy me?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 23135
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