Keyboard Karma - Sonny's PianoTV

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This is a recent television news story that featured Sonny’s innovative PianoYoga Teaching method for playing piano instantly. This method incorporates the use of breathing, relaxation, stretching, and getting into the flow exercises and techniques that Sonny has developed to help everyone play piano with little or no sheet music.

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Purchase A Pre-Owned Piano

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Sonny discusses why purchasing pre-owned pianos is on the rise, is a great investment; has health benefits; is a stress reducer, is good for family relations; easy to play and fun to do.

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Sonny’s PianoTV is holding another “Win a Free Piano” contest! To enter, all you have to do to enter is upload your original piano or keyboard playing video to Sonny’s Piano Artists Gallery. The contest ends at the end of June, 2009 and the drawing for the winner will be held in the first week of July, 2009. Good Luck and play that piano!

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Breathing…..

When playing the piano, try taking some slow, steady, deep breaths. You will find your ability to concentrate and flow will instantly increase and you will also find immediate improvement in your velocity and eye-hand coordination. Try taking several slow, deep breaths when you first sit down at your piano before you play a note. This will help you to relax and reduce performance anxiety. Breathing is one of the most overlooked aspects of playing the piano. As with many other activities which require concentration and physical movement, there is a tendency for people to try too hard and tense up which restricts full respiration which reduces full range of motion in your hands and causes an uncomfortable, anxious feeling due to reduced circulation and CO2 build up. When Playing the Piano remember to Breathe… Relax… Flow… and Enjoy Yourself……

Use What You Know

It’s not how much you know but how you use what you know…. … is an idea that very much applies to piano playing. You don’t need a PhD in music theory to successfully play piano. If you learn some of the basic concepts of piano playing (especially the chord method and some improvisation techniques) and get in touch with your own inner musical flow you will be playing wonderful music in no time. Also, the expression less is more applies to piano playing as well…it’s not how complex or advanced the music you play is that reflects your success but rather the feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction you get from what and how you play that counts.

Finding Your Groove

When you start finding the groove…. or how to flow on the piano you will find it will spill over into other aspects of your life….Actually when you find the groove, flow, zone in any arena of life it spills over into all aspects of your life… learn to flow while dancing, running, playing sports, doing yoga, martial arts or creating art …. learn to master one thing and you’ll begin to understand the principle behind the art of flowing or mastering things in general… and you will find it easier to be successful at anything you apply yourself to.

Piano Improvising Tip

It’s a miracle . That’s what piano playing is.
When truly improvising, the music that comes out reflects the essence of each person.
The piano is a vehicle for revealing ourselves to ourselves.
You can’t force it.
The piano is a vehicle for self-realization.
When you start not knowing where the music that is emanating from you is coming from, then you have arrived.
In the beginning, keep your forays into improvisation upon melodies “close to the vest”… simple / just a few notes away from the original song.
It’s not about playing jazz – - it’s about playing you!
Mistakes are often your best source for new ideas.
You can’t get the zone, the zone finds you….
Piano playing is about being yourself, enjoying what you are doing…it’s not about being perfect.
Success is measured by how much enjoyment and pleasure you derive and share with others.

Relax And Have Fun

Many of us as children took music lessons that we found boring and too mechanical which turned us off to the beauty, joy and health benefits music has to offer. Today there’s a new approach to learning how to play an instrument that emphasizes fun and enjoyment over being perfect all the time. Success is not measured by how fast or perfectly you play, but rather by how much happiness, joy and satisfaction playing brings you. The interesting thing is, when you take this more relaxed approach, your playing actually improves in leaps and bounds because the energy you were wasting worrying and being critical of yourself is freed up to enable you to play up to your full potential, This is the style of teaching we use at Sonny’s Piano Studio.

Places You Never Dreamed

The piano can take you to places you never dreamed possible……..it’s an energy box that can lead you into a kind of vortex of feeling and sound….. it’s a singing machine…a magical muse….it can be like riding Pegasus the mythical winged horse ..it’s like a true friend… always there for you……it’s an instant de-stressor……a place to go fly……a letting go corner…………breathe deep… relax from your head down to your feet …feel each note as you play ….through piano playing you can connect with what you’ve always wanted to connect to …..yourself…life essence….core being…..true self…..surrender to playing the piano…let it take you…guide you….be free……and just play.

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