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Why Do You Play the Piano?
Piano Brain! UpperHandsPiano.com/blog I am studying the effects of piano lessons on the brain at the University of Washington, and have...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 7, 2017


Piano Players’ Brains
http://www.lifehack.org/517069/science-says-piano-players-brains-are-very-different-from-everybody-elses I think it overstates a few...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 22, 2017


PEDAL PASSION | PEDAL PRACTICE
blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Venezuelan virtuoso pianist/composer Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) believed that pedaling is like mixing paints on...
Gaili Schoen
Jul 14, 2016


Repeats – Barlines, Dots and Multiple Endings
blog.upperhandspiano.com THE MECHANICSÂ OF REPEATS Repeated sections in music cause confusion for many students. Especially when they...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 9, 2015


White Key Improvisation (Improvising Part 3)
UpperHandsPiano.com/blog I am so pleased to hear that some of you are doing a little improvising. It’s great to try something new, isn’t...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 6, 2015


Finger painting (Improvising, part 2)
Hello Piano Lovers: blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Today I’d like to delve further into the question, why should we improvise? Firstly, if you...
Gaili Schoen
Feb 5, 2015


7 Moving Pieces (For Inspiration)
blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Dear Friends: I sometimes turn to moving music to get me through a difficult time, or to reflect my feelings of...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 26, 2015


Musical Endings
UpperHandsPIano.com/blog Today I would like to talk about musical endings. In his wonderful book Things I Overheard While Talking To...
Gaili Schoen
Jan 25, 2015
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