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Are you a creative klutz? Does the thought of playing piano not only frighten but also intimidate you? If so, there’s a solution. It’s called the open position piano chord and with it, you’ll be able to create your own music within 1-hour guaranteed! Here’s how…

Chords are used to make music at the piano. The same way a guitar player can pick up the guitar, strum a few chords and make music, so too can the pianist. The problem is, note reading is what has been usually taught while creativity with chords is relegated to background status. The open position piano chord is a unique chord structure that utilizes both hands right away to create a modem sounding chord that

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The Theme from MASH

I flipped the button on the remote control, pausing mindlessly at each channel to see the picture on the screen; I could not motivate myself to do anything else. I had worked all day and was too tired to move. I needed to do something that would require no expenditure of energy, no time to feel. Because feeling hurts.

All of a sudden, the theme from the old television show, MASH, rang out of the screen. I looked up to see Hawkeye and and Hotlips laughing together as the show began.

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Do you know why playing guitar is so much easier than playing piano? It’s because guitar players learn how to use chords first. Even before note reading!

They usually learn how to play chords in the first position. Called open position chords, the beginning guitarist quickly learns how to finger this position and can immediately create music. That’s why so many people love the guitar and want to learn it!

They don’t waste time learning “the masters” or anything like that at all. Nope. It’s all contemporary. Unless of course it’s classical guitar.

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There are men in industry whose job is to subject various metals and substances to states of stress or strain, in order to test their endurance. This can be done in many ways. For instance, a length of wire, secured at either end, then rendered rigid under prolonged and deliberate tension, will often snap, if somewhere in its manufacture, there is a flaw or weakness.

Yet there doesn t necessarily have to be this point of weakness. If the pressure is great enough, the break will come in any case. The human mind and body might be compared to that length of wire, stretched out under the stresses and strains of life. Under acute and prolonged

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Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing to bring their personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Hearing each note in the mind before it is played and thinking about how to touch each key is important to playing thoughtfully and creatively. Music is a language and as such it always tells a story or paints a picture.

Painting is a great analogy for children in piano as it is something that can easily relate to. In children s music the first place kids can look to get an idea of what this picture will look like

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