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Cat Concerto
November 12 2014

The Cat Concerto – Lang Lang’s story

Do you know that Tom & Jerry Cartoon inspired Lang Lang to play the piano?  When Lang Lang was a child, he saw the cat concerto and was deeply impressed with Liszt’s music. Watch the cat concerto on youtube Now watch Lang Lang plays the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt Lang Lang talked about his inspiration

Halloween Candy
November 5 2014

Hunt for the Hidden Musical Rhythm in your Halloween Candy

The notes and rests are hiding in this pile of Halloween Candies. Can you guess how many notes and rests are there in this photo?   Let’s play some Candy Bar Rhythm Game by D’Net Layton ? Candy RUSH at http://laytonmusic.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/candy-bar-rhythms.pdf

Rach Big Hands
October 21 2014

Prelude in C-sharp minor by Rachmaninoff

 You Love Piano studio participated in the Trick or Treat recital hosted by SAMTA the past Sunday. Thank you all so much for making this event memorable and successful. The last piece on the program is the Prelude in C-sharp minor by Rachmaninoff. It’s a beautiful piece with big, thick chords that require huge span of […]

Honda Choir
October 14 2014

A Look inside Music Composition through Honda Choir Advertisement

This YouTube clip features 60 people choir singing “car noises.”  It amazes me to see the creativity in the compositional process and hear the variety of sounds. All the sounds made by human voices are based on the actual sound of the car. Well, you may be wondering how the sound of the choir is related to […]

Sound Shape V
October 7 2014

Sound Shape

In the previous blog, I wrote about how “Directional Reading” revolutionized the way I read music and the importance of the landmark (guideposts) notes. Today I would like to explore the building blocks of the music- the “Sound Shape.” After learning the guideposts, the next step is to identify patterns (for example: steps and skips) […]

Guideposts Flashnote Derby
September 30 2014

Reading Music using Guideposts – Directional Reading

I grew up learning piano following the traditional Middle C reading approach – both LH and RH thumb sharing Middle C and my teacher would add a new neighbor note from Middle C each week and I gradually learned the notes expanding from Middle C. Then…I came across two other reading methods: multi-key approach and […]

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