Piano Potential

Thanks Catherine for allowing me to guest post here.

Guys, I just wanted to share with you two exciting videos from Australia’s Got Talent, showing what you can get from your piano. This is what you can achieve from all that practice. Maybe watching these will motivate you to practice some more each day!

In the first one, there is an excellent idea, shall we call it a “party trick”? Check it out…

Neat, hey? That piece is tricky even with your eyes open!

Next, the value of practice is that you can learn new, fantastically entertaining pieces in only a short time, once you have mastered your playing…

Finally, check out this guy David Sides. He can’t read music, but just have a look at what he can still do, through his hours of practice. It just shows how important training your ear and practicing daily can make you into an awesome pianist…

Well that’s all from me for now. Thanks again Catherine.

It’s exciting to be excited!!

Welcome to my blog!! I’ve never done anything like this before - it seems weird to me that anyone would actually want to read the things that I think about - but my husband loves blogging and his blog is fun and interesting - so I’ll give the blogging thing a go (just wanted to see how many times I could fit the word ‘blog’ into a blog sentence!) LoL…

I am so excited to be getting back into actually studying music. I’ve had a break for almost two years - partly because I was flat out with organising a wedding and working full-time plus part-time as well as serving at church - but also because I had just spent years and years studying music for exams and practicing for exams - and trying to do so while working or studying other areas full-time! My ‘music time’ was spent teaching others - which I loved doing (and still do) but it meant that I had no time left for myself, and I started to lose some of the passion that I had.

However, after

• being blessed financially and circumstantially
• having time away from ‘you must study such-and-such because your exam is next month’
• realising that my students are moving into higher grades and that I really want to be a fantastic teacher, and
• regaining my passion for music, both theoretical and practical aspects…

I’m excited!!