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Creativity, Music Education, Piano Teaching  12 Comments

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016

5 Brilliant Ways to Begin Teaching Improvisation to Beginners

Making things up seems like the polar opposite to learning how to do something. And most very first piano lessons

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