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On to Hoffmann Academy Free Piano Lessons
As of today, 3 weeks after taking up James Rhodes’ methods to learn JS Bach’s Prelude in C, BWV 846, I’ve generally gotten it down to play the notes all the way through without mistakes. I’ll need lots more practice to get some feelings, dynamics, and such into it to make it sound better, but I can do that 3 minutes at a time if I wanted to now, having memorized it and being able to play it well enough to have people think it’s beautiful. All credits to Bach, though, cause my playing ain’t doing the music any favours. That’s how good it is! So on with the show!
Learning to Play the Piano, James Rhodes’ Style + Extra
About a month ago, I saw an article on the BBC, with video, about pianist James Rhodes and his attempt to teach the masses to play a Bach prelude (in C, BWV 846) on the piano in six weeks at about 40 minutes per day. I thought it was convincing. I liked how it wasn’t about scales and other monotonous piano and mandatory musical teachings. And I thought six weeks at 40 minutes a day was a reasonable commitment I could commit to just to see if I could do it as a catalyst to a more serious attempt at learning piano. So off I went to order a cheap keyboard and James Rhodes’ How to Play the Piano book, to be supplemented by his website, to learn the piece below!
Happy Ranniversary to Me!
A year ago, thanks to Jack Scrine of Halifolks, I got something unusual that I did over the years captured on video. It started one of the funnest weeks of my life so far.
Thanks a lot also to Brad Verge, the bus driver who was a fantastic sport to make this video super! And thanks to some people in the local media, especially Kelland Sundahl of ATV news, who did a very fun story, to make my special week what it was!
How Marathon Results Could, and Maybe Should, Be Shown
I recently took a typical online set of marathon results in a table, from the 2016 Mount Desert Island marathon, and turned it into an interactive display and analysis here. I’d embed it to show you but I can’t use JavaScript embedding on WordPress.
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