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Author: Ben Trigg
The Productive Musician: Organise your actions and tasks by context for when your plans have to change
This post is the first in what I hope might turn into a series of posts to help musicians who struggle to get organised some (or more than some) of the time. Welcome to The Productive Musician. As I write, it is 35 degrees Celsius outside – and in my studio, not a whole lot… Continue reading The Productive Musician: Organise your actions and tasks by context for when your plans have to change
The Ultimate Guide to Creating Great Chord Charts
Over the course of twenty or so years I have worked plenty both as a gigging musician, and as a music editor/copyist/publisher/engraver (we really should pick a name and stick to it). At the cross-section of these two worlds lies the humble Chord Chart – so simple, it might seem, yet I find, so easy… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Creating Great Chord Charts
Screen-free learning helps my students – and me! – to focus
Emily Emily (not her real name) sits at the piano, legs swinging several inches from the floor on the grown-up stool, spreading her fingers as best she can over the full-size black and white keys. She is showing lots of promise at her young age. I have recently started teaching at Emily's school, and am… Continue reading Screen-free learning helps my students – and me! – to focus
Those who can: teach.
It's time to put the old adage to bed.
