Experienced musicians are more likely to write chords from bottom to top, starting with note heads first, then stems and beams, and finally adding musical expression markings.
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Tag: music research
Piano instruction improves children’s executive functioning
The researcher’s results demonstrated that children’s executive functioning improved after 12 months of piano instruction.
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Practice strategies of instrumental music students: Explicit instruction and transfer
The effect of explicit instruction protocol across 6 lessons for band students. The results found the treatment condition of explicit practice protocols demonstrated significant changes in performance scores from pre-test to post-test in the treatment condition groups.
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Expertise in studio music lessons: What do we know?
One-to-one instrumental lessons are common for music students. For many of us, this is how we learned over many years. Despite evidence and research into effective classroom and applied music studio teacher at university level, little is known about expertise in studio music teaching at a local level (ie: your local piano or violin teacher).
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Predicting Piano Student Dropout
It is odd that students begin with such enthusiasm but then abandon this effort soon after.
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New approaches to sight reading for pianists
New approaches to sight reading for pianists What is sight-reading and how do we improve it? Sight-reading can be for[…]
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Gender differences in instrumental music practice
Gender differences in instrumental music practice Are there gender differences in instrumental music practice? Hallam, et al. (2016) have recently[…]
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Musical aspirations: The development of expertise
Musical aspirations: The development of expertise Hallam, et al. (2016) have recently released results of a large-scale study of adolescent musicians,[…]
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HAPHAZARD AND STRATEGIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PRACTICE
Instrumental music practice requires an ongoing cycle of planning and self-reflection. Self-regulated learning (Zimmerman, 1989) proposes a model which highlights[…]
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Acquiring high levels of expertise in instrumental music: Deliberate practice
DELIBERATE practice: What predicts level of expertise attained, quality of performance, and future musical aspirations in young instrumental players? Deliberate[…]
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