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Music Education, Music Theory, Piano Teaching  20 Comments

November 4, 2015December 22, 2018

How to Find Your Key (in a piece of music)

The single most common question I receive from piano teachers around the world revolves around the issue of knowing what key

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Music Theory, Scale of the Day  12 Comments

January 14, 2010February 23, 2016

Scale of the Day #2: The Simpsons Scale

Rather than alter the original post (which would make the comments below somewhat hard to follow) I will leave it

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Music Education, Piano Teaching  10 Comments

September 13, 2009July 12, 2015

Scales as propaganda

Why do we require our students to learn scales? It’s heresy, really, to suggest giving piano lessons without teaching students

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