March 2013 Lesson – A lesson in multitasking
A couple of Saturdays ago, I traveled to Toledo for an organ lesson. The theme of the lesson became multitasking as I had trouble learning the new hymns and Bach piece assigned at my previous lesson. …
Goals
Tracking with a NeuYear calendar
In early January, I announced my intention to schedule practice time. I haven’t done any advance scheduling yet but I started tracking my practice sessions with a NeuYear calendar. After I practice, I record the time of day and …
What if I set a schedule
A new year is upon us. What will your goals be? Will you write them down and commit to them? I set several goals in a few areas including the typical to eat healthier and exercise …
30 Days of Music Theory – final update
There is much more to music theory than I was aware of 30 days ago. There were a few days when I didn’t study music theory. I could blame this on the holidays but in …
30 Days of Music Theory – Half way update
On December 1, 2012 I announced my goal to study music theory every day for 30 days. I started off strong spending 30 minutes reading through lessons at www.musictheory.net/. On other days I read lessons in Alfred’s Essentials …
30 day challenge – Music Theory
I recently discovered the TED talk of Matt Cutts encouraging people to try something new for 30 days. This video has over 3 million views and is only a few minutes long so watch it! …
My cats and the organ
July has been a very busy month. I still have my goals in mind to update the blog weekly and practice the organ at least 10 hours week. I plan to get back on track …