Monthly Archives: March 2010

Celebrating One Year!

By joy (admin) | Published: 15 March 2010

After browsing through the colorinmypiano.com archives and — alas! — it seems that we’ve missed our own anniversary! Here’s a rundown of the history of the colorinmypiano.com blog: It was on February 28, 2009 that I first conceived of this blog and wrote my first post: a welcome and brief statement of purpose.  I found my [...]

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Collaborative Piano Humor

By joy (admin) | Published: 12 March 2010

In this delightfully humorous post, Billie Whittaker shares some collaborative piano humor.  She shares some humorous tendencies she has observed in collaborative pianists — such as having advanced photocopying skills, and possessing strong opinions on the ‘use of plastic music protectors’ debate.  She goes on to share some of her own quirks — such as [...]

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Music & Movement: Inseparable!

By joy (admin) | Published: 11 March 2010

One of the reasons I’ve been considering offering early childhood music classes is because I am a firm believer in the strong relationship between music and movement.  As an undergrad, I took two semester of Dalcroze Eurhythmics which I found incredibly useful.  We learned movements that fit different meters and learned to respond expressively to [...]

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Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom

By joy (admin) | Published: 10 March 2010
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Early Childhood Music Classes

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 March 2010

Lately, I’ve been considering offering pre-piano music classes for children and their parents — someday, when I have a private studio in my home again (Right now, I teach piano privately through my university’s community music school.).  My goal in providing these classes someday is to better prepare young children (think ages 0-5, especially) for [...]

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Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom

By joy (admin) | Published: 3 March 2010
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12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 2 March 2010

I’ll be the first one to admit: memorizing music does not come easily to me.  I really have to work at it, and it takes a lot of time.  Over the past couple of years, I have been reading and trying out everything I could find about memorizing music, and I’ve come up with a [...]

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