tonystride

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by tonystride 6y ago
Yes and no. There is an art to reaching someone with talent who is untrained. It's like their innate sense of music is a reservoir behind a damn and the damn is their facility on the keyboard. There's no shortcut to bringing that
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by tonystride 6y ago
Absolutely, like I said, I'm working on stuff like this right now. Having said that, perhaps it's a combination of my own personal trauma from originally being taught in a very rote way and thousands of hours of helping students l
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by tonystride 6y ago
Some low price keyboards are so bad that they might not properly convey the fun of piano because of their limited function and make you think you don't like it. You've gotta make sure that what you buy gives you an accurate pictur
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by tonystride 6y ago
TBH it looks pretty good. Covers lots of theory, lots of repertoire graded for ability, and I'm super happy to see it covers rhythm. I think a few people knocked it for typography, I'm not that picky. Perhaps one of the biggest pr
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by tonystride 6y ago
I would say no cheaper than $500 from Roland, Yamaha, or Casio.
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by tonystride 6y ago
I'm working on something like this right now. Pieces that are accessible but not boring. Getting into jazz early can be tough, like how will you understand an extremely basic 3-6-9 voicing and how it connects to a 7-3-5 voicing in a ci
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by tonystride 6y ago
Wow reading discussion of music consumption on HN is so surreal for me as a working pianist / keyboardist / accordionist / educator. There’s a guilty pleasure I derive from mostly feeling unworthy when reading through HN post
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by tonystride 6y ago
As a piano teacher I've been teaching online since March and the Shared Piano part of the Chrome Music Lab has been really useful for demonstrating various concepts!
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by tonystride 6y ago
I've been using Google Hangouts, doesn't look like this option exists here...
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by tonystride 6y ago
This is also a problem with teaching online piano lessons, sometimes the piano gets filtered out and makes it hard to hear what the student is doing.