Common question about chords from Terry: "Hi Tim, sorry to bother you. I know how busy you must be. I am practicing the progression chords in Lesson 1. I am wondering why you have us practice the chords with the right hand. I thought the chords of a song are played with the left hand [...]
February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015
I've been noticing a trend with our younger workforce. There seems to be a huge lack of, what I call, a "sense of urgency". And since I don't believe you can train this in someone, I have figured out an ingenious (if I do say so myself) way to hire properly. Here's the backstory: For [...]
February 16, 2015
Rhonda definitely gets what the Layer Method Of Piano is all about. Her words: "Thank you! Thank you for offering a reasonably priced learn-to-play piano program. $100 is reasonable to me as an hour lesson with a local person is at least $25 per and I gained far more in your series than I would [...]
February 13, 2015
There's a rule made popular (for people wanting to master something) by Malcolm Gladwell and his book Outliers called "The 10,000 hour rule." Here's the gist: "Based on research suggesting that practice is the essence of genius, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of appropriately guided practice was “the magic number [...]
February 12, 2015
Weird things are happening in the Mitchum household. It all points to "getting older" Ah!!!! Here are the top ten things I notice happening: Wheel of fortune has somehow started showing up (and staying on) our TV Up at 5:30, racing to bed by 9 Coffee has become a very important part of my day [...]
