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Blog #49 New to Working With a Pianist?
Working with a pianist this year?
You’ll find this post especially helpful.
When it comes to working with a pianist instead of recorded music, there are a couple of things you need to realize and integrate!
What you need to know, before I go any further, is that my beginner days of accompanying ballet weren't exactly the easiest. I started playing for a professional school before ever having been to a ballet or played for a recreational class, even. It was scary. I cried. Legit. A lot! So,...
Blog #37: 2 Necessary Steps When Marking for Pianists (all 5 types of them!)
Working with a pianist can be all kinds of things.. Awesome, terrifying, exciting, dreadful, amazing, supportive, disastrous, mind blowing, horrific and the words could go on and on. The important part is to realize that we're all different kinds of people with different experiences, skills, perspectives, mentalities, etc.
Today, I'm going to give you 2 necessary steps for you as a ballet teacher when working with a pianist!
SIDE NOTE: Keep in mind, we're all different so some pianists may not totally...
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