2016-03-19 18:53
I am slowly migrating all of my online activity to one central hub over at TomRule.info.
This particular blog has been migrated over to www.TomRule.info/pianoteaching/. As I type this I am s… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
The sheet music for CROOKED is available HERE over at MacMusicGuy.com. We've also posted a VIDEO LINK "How To" video on the keyboard setup and programming - we're calling it the "MIXTURE How… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The sheet music for Raining is available HERE over at MacMusicGuy.com.
Raining is a piece from MIXTURE, Joey Stuckey's jazz guitar album that I "co-everythinged" on with Joey. It's… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The sheet music for DOT DOT DOT is available HERE over at MacMusicGuy.com. DotDotDot is a vaguely bossa tune with a deceptively simple melody that really is fun to play!
We've also posted a… Read More
2012-05-02 02:55
I swore I'd never teach.
Really!
After earning my undergrad degree [in Piano Performance] I was so burned out I swore I'd never teach. I couldn't see myself teaching in ANY capacity whatsoev… Read More
2012-02-10 12:44
I had one teacher in Grad school who would sit back and just listen to my playing. He'd sip on his coffee, make few comments, and then I'd play the next piece. This went on for 2 semesters… Read More
2012-02-03 04:23
Yes, there IS a free lunch, but there IS a catch!
I've been astounded by the amount of free sheet music available - it's also called "open source" music. Heavens, I've even posgted some piec… Read More
2011-10-06 16:20
AppSumo is running a contest through October 13th - the winner gets a free 50gig Dropbox account for life.
If
you've never heard of Dropbox, it is a well-done way of storing files
online… Read More
2010-08-30 12:57
From an origianl post by Brian Corber on Linkedin. Brian is a Music Lawyer, and has graciously granted permission for me to re-publish this. Check out his website - as he says, "… Read More
2009-08-20 14:53
What's the Difference - from teaching, learning, and Musician's perspective? Some semi-random thoughts.
There's nothing like playing a well-maintained concert grand. NOTHING.But few people… Read More
2009-02-11 16:31
First, my setup:1) I teach on a digital piano (not a great one, but it's what I have available in the music store where I teach)2) I have a 10-year old Mac (Powermac Tower - 266 MHz PPC proc… Read More
2008-12-03 19:09
At the risk of sounding like an old geezer...... this came to mind as I taught my last Music App class of the semester.
My first Music App classes were taught using LPs - the CD had only ju… Read More
2008-11-18 14:26
Thoughts on the morning before heading down to Georgia Southwestern to perform a recital with Rebecca Lanning:
I've been playing piano for 40 years - professionally for over half that (Nope… Read More
2008-04-09 18:58
This is my latest thing to try - putting my music "out there" in the marketplace. Now, I'm nowhere near "signing a label contract" - nor am I interested in that. For that matter, a label wou… Read More
2008-01-25 22:27
This might sound like a stupid entry for a blog, but I had a conversation with a piano teacher who was wondering just what use a website is for a piano teacher. After all, the reasoning went… Read More
2008-01-22 13:20
Here is a slideshow featuring pix and music from the Joey Stuckey band trip to the Boston area to perform on Emerging Artist TV. It was a lot of fun to do - the EA guys are a good group./
I'… Read More
2007-08-08 12:52
This is a performance of "I Surrender All" that I did at Vineville North in July, 2007. This was a jazz improv version - inspired by the thought that this traditional church tune sounds kind… Read More
2007-04-06 20:37
Now that it has been a couple of months, what have I learned? What would I do differently?
1) This was definitely worth the time involved. not so much from a monetary viewpoint, but from a… Read More
2007-03-16 17:35
So the MIDI got recorded, edited, transferred to audio, shipped over to the recording studio, printed, and mailed. What were the reactions?
Overwhelmingly positive! I had made the kids prom… Read More
2007-03-06 17:17
Almost done with this series of entries on creating Christmas CDs for my piano students.
To this point I've detailed the equipment, recording process, editing, and graphics creation. The ne… Read More
2007-02-13 17:01
So I have a teaching studio at the music store with a very old Mac and a digital keyboard, a small recording setup in the outhouse, and a friend with some professional studio equipment. How… Read More
2007-02-13 17:00
Looking back, it was interesting at the different approaches I had to take getting the recording done. All of my students had seen me use that old Mac Classic before, and they all knew it wo… Read More
2007-02-13 16:58
So at this point it the process I had recorded all of the students who were going to be recorded, and I had a floppy disk with several sequence files on it. Several of the pieces had duet pa… Read More
2007-02-13 16:57
At this point I had good quality MIDI files ready, that sounded just like I wanted them to. They represented a fair picture of the student's performances, but were still listenable.
Getting… Read More
2007-02-13 16:56
Another entry in a continuing series discussing a custom Christmas present I produced for my piano students - a CD with their performance, recorded in a lesson.
To this point I've detailed… Read More
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