Monthly Archives: October 2014

Let’s begin this subject with some definitions and concepts: Your repertoire is your collection of pieces that you know well enough to play in performance, or at least well enough to enjoy playing for yourself.  It’s not necessarily what you carry around in your music bag, unless you know all the music in it reallyContinue reading “Building Repertoire vs. Building Skill”

There comes a point in learning any tune when we need to begin practicing it two different ways. Up to a point the learning process has to be about getting all the notes, timing and tempo precise (and the lyrics if it’s a song). After the point when you’re consistently playing it right, it’s timeContinue reading “Playing Right vs. Playing Well”