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Is it possible/recommended to paint the side of piano's keys?
It's certainly possible. Whether it's a good idea depends on your goals. This answer assumes that the primary goal is to maintain the piano in optimum playing condition, in which case it is not a ...
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Is it possible/recommended to paint the side of piano's keys?
It is not recommended to paint the sides. The main problem would be that a layer of paint could cause friction/stickiness, preventing the keys returning correctly.
The top itself is artificial ivory ...
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
Some of the simpler things that speeds me up when reading pitches:
Understand the key sign convention that follows the circle of fifths.
Anchor in your memory lines and ledger lines by name, I find ...
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
When I learned classical guitar, the books we used combined sheet notation with the actual instrument practice - i.e. starting from lesson #1, the instruction of what to play was simply using sheet ...
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
The same way (as the old joke says) you get to Carnegie Hall: practice!!
Of course, you first need to understand the basics of the notation you're reading: all the standard ways to indicate pitch and ...
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
Written music can be split into two separate, really unrelated, parts, surprisingly.
The pitches themselves - the actual notes that need to be played, and the duration of those notes - how long each ...
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How can I simplify or accelerate my learning of sheet music?
Here are the things most helpful to me when I was learning to read — not in any particular order:
Remember that the goal is to read music, not notes.
Read from extremely simple pieces. "Simple&...
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