How I Used to Lie About My Experience With Piano

You don’t have to fit a mold. Most people don’t, you know. And yet, we generally assume that others will conform to our expectations. I used to lie

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It’s All Side-Effects

I spent the weekend moving. It was far more difficult than I anticipated. I have way too much stuff, and I completely underestimated how much I have. I

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Mistakes Don’t Hurt Your Ears

If wrong notes hurt your ears, good. A student of mine was whining about that once. He was 11 years old, and he had pretty good ears. I

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Sight-Reading and Hesitation

Hesitating during sight-reading is a bad idea, and I learned this the hard way. I had been hired to play for voice lessons at a rather prestigious music

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How I Learned I Was Bad at Singing

When I was in second grade, my music teacher decided to inform my parents that I was bad at singing. My dad and I were in front of our garage one day. We had

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