The title of this post is a quote from the British actor Michael Caine's memoirs which he read on Radio 4's Book of the Week programme over Christmas week. The phrase was first mentioned when he was describing setbacks in his early career and how he would always try to find a positive in a… Continue reading Use the Difficulty
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The perfect wrong note
My students don't believe me when I tell them there is a book called The Perfect Wrong Note. Nor do they believe me when I tell them that mistakes are good, that mistakes make us better musicians. The desire for perfectionism is all around us in our modern society, from the need to produce a… Continue reading The perfect wrong note
A Piano Teacher Writes... 