Tag: Chicago piano instructor

I have been studying and teaching music for a long time and I can now say confidently that there is nothing more important than the beginning. The decision to take music lessons is always momentous, isn’t it? You were just another woman/man in the crowd and, all of the sudden, you’ve decided to claim your…

If you ever play an instrument you might wonder what the end goal is. I’ll tell you a possible one: recording. If you are able to record what you paly on the piano or the drums without any mistakes, you can be proud of yourself. The fact is that microphones do not lie. More than…

I am sure that among the people interested in studying an instrument some are wondering why they should go to a teacher. Oh boy! Do I have some answers for you! Stick around, pull up a chair. Here we go. Learning music with a teacher is a tradition that’s a few centuries old now. Pupils…

I am not sure if my title is correct. Do we still call it “the zone” these days? Or is it that we are “hot”? Or that we “groove”? I am sometimes lost in the hip English lingo. Forgive me, I’m French. What I am talking about is that particular state when everything falls into…

Google used to be the dominant platform to get your name out there. Small businesses like mine would rely heavily on the traffic they would get to survive or even thrive. Apparently that isn’t true anymore. Google has changed and isn’t the best way to make yourself known. It was not a good news for…

The answers is always. That’s it, that’s my blog for today. Thank you very much, see you next blog, don’t forget to like and subscribe. All right, ok, I’ll calm down. When do you push? Good question. Another question: what do you push? Let’s cut to the chase and say you are practicing and you…

Music is a very abstract art. Once the notes have disappeared we’re left with just the memory. Yet, we, as musicians, sweat out the details. That’s because we try to make the listener’s memories last forever. We think that if we craft the notes with more thoughts behind them, we will have a better chance…

We are today in the digital world and we might think that music is produced by machines. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the skills necessary to play an instrument are getting rarer and rarer. I, for one, don’t think so since I’ve got a full schedule. Plus, we still have to this day a ton of…

We are always battling this notion theses days: should we be entertained from the outside in or the inside out. Did you see that? I just opened with a mysterious sentence. I hope you’re intrigued enough to stay with me for the explanation. Being entertained from the outside in is pretty simple and easy: TV,…

Being a musician these days is not an analog job anymore, especially if you’re have an instrument that can only play music from the 1900 on like the drum set. If you’re in that category, you’re going to have to deal wit some kind of machine. Oh, I am not complaining, it could be worse,…