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I'd say leave off the secondary chords entirely. Work on identifying I, IV, and V chords first. Nursery rhymes and simple children's songs are a great starting point, as others have mentioned. Ther …

It's an arpeggio. You "roll" the notes like you did. Usually you start with the bottom note and work your way up. The exact timing is not precisely indicated, so it's not as specific as you suggest …

I am an experienced composer with moderate piano skill. I've only taken a handful of piano lessons. My limited piano skills usually suffice to get me through playing what I need to as I compose. …

As seen in Faber and Faber's Piano Adventures series, book 3B. I have always seem trill instructions advising to begin on the primary note. But this (trill on F) says to begin striking G. … Baroque-era piano piece. Shouldn't the trill begin with F? …

All the other answers give excellent information on solidifying the Aeolian mode, but there is one thing they don't mention. Your biggest challenge will be to avoid accidentally slipping into C Ionian …

I've only ever had this backfire on me in performance. I was teaching and accompanying my students. First I played with a sax player, but I didn't have a copy of the music in the concert key. So I …

Don't equate their ability level with their teaching ability. Obviously they should have a basic level of musicianship, and be able to demonstrate what the student should be able to do. Beyond that …

I attended a concert once where a trombone soloist played his instrument pointing towards the strings of a grand piano (lid propped fully open, pianist depressing the pedal). … Would a cello solo playing a loud melody on its A string be a strong enough sound to cause a grand piano (lid open, sustain pedal depressed) to ring sympathetically? …

I have the following figure in the piano part. I know that while the tempo is rather brisk (it's in 6/8 time, dotted quarter note = 80) it is not terribly difficult. …

I've seen tremolos in piano music both with and without the slur. How would a pianist perform the two measures differently? …

You may find someone as ttw suggests, local high school/universities are a good start. I'd be somewhat wary of having an orchestra teacher teach you composition in lieu of an actual composer. You wo …

Like many things in music, the answer is "because that's the way everybody does it, and if you didn't do it, too, your music would look strange and confuse people." To your second question, there are …