Feb. 2, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest Ashlee Young Piano Studio

The Sound of Gold with guest Ashlee Young Piano Studio
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Season 1

Meet pianist and instructor, Ashlee Young. @AshleeYoungMusicStudio. Have you considered taking piano lessons but are too busy for one on one lessons in your schedule? What if I told you that you can get online piano lessons tailored to fit in your schedule.
Tune in to learn how Ashlee will focus on expanding your musical knowledge with rhythm made easy, tempo tips, technic breakthroughs, 10x faster sight reading, performance confidence and playing with accuracy, control and grace.

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HI are welcome. Welcome to the Sound of Gold. I'm

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so glad that you're here, and if you are just

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tuning in for the first time. The Sound of Golds

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is based on music, musicians, music teachers, music venues, and

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music schools. I am a music teacher as well as

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a radio show host, and I love playing piano, and

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I also I'm also a student, even though I'm a teacher.

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And there's so much to share with you today, and

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I'm so excited because I'm just going to kind of

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ramble on a little bit. And if you've been with

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me before, you know I kind of zigzag, and if

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you're new to the show, you'll follow along because it's

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always fun. If you play an instrument, if you're thinking

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about playing an instrument. I'm a little bit partial I've

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been playing the piano since I was five, and I

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didn't always love playing piano. I didn't always love to lessons,

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but it became my lifestyle and it's become it's been

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my career for over twenty years, and teaching, playing, composing

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and reading music. It's not something that I've just come

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to be overnight, right. It takes time, it takes practice,

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and if you're thinking about getting out there and learning

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an instrument, I think the piano is the easiest instrument

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to learn on because you're kind of looking at black

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and white and the patterns and then reading new music

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and understanding the language of music. With that being said,

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whether you're watching this live or whether you're listening, I

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am so excited, like on top of the moon, to

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introduce my guests this week. My guest is Ashley Young,

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and she is an online music piano teacher, and she

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has so many different courses available and she gives so

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much of her free time. I mean, you could just

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type in her name and there's hundreds of YouTube videos

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about different topics, different focuses, and let me introduce her

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to you. Ashley, are you backstage? Are you with us today?

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I am hello, Hello, I'm so excited to be here.

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Bye. Yes, so glad to have you here. And we

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were talking briefly before. So I'm here in Florida. You are?

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Are you in Colorado?

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Are you? I'm in the Pacific Northwest on the west coast.

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Okay, Okay? And is it very cold there?

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It's it's pretty chilly, yeah, chilly and rainy.

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So here in Florida we have like one of the

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coldest cold spells going on. It's been I think it's

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in the forties or fifties right now, but yesterday it

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was in I think the low thirties. I mean, it's

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We've had frost on our car this morning and we're

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not used to that. So but but besides that, I

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am like one of your hugest fans, like behind the scenes,

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I'm constantly following your videos and I'm like, all right,

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what does she have like on special this week? I'm like,

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all right, I want to sign up for that class.

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And even though I've been teaching for over twenty years

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and I've been playing for over forty five, not to

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give my age away, but I'm still a student. I'm

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still always wanting to like better myself. I'm still wanting

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to like understand more because there's no end. I think

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even like when I reach ninety or one hundred years old, God,

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you know, God blesses me that long, I think I'll

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still be like learning something different or a different approach,

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or or just something something new. There's so much that

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you provide online. There's so much that you offer. But

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even before that, and my cat is joining us, even

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before we get into that, I would love to hear

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a little bit about your journey, like what's brought you

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to where you are today? Because we didn't wake up

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and just like okay, we're teaching. It took her how

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to work to get here.

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Absolutely, I love what you said about being a lifelong

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student because I think that's the mark of a really

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incredible teacher, is someone who is willing to admit that

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they don't know everything and that they're always learning. And

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you know, we as teachers have to practice what we

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preach and learn and watch videos and constantly be rethinking

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what we're doing and open to doing something new. And

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I always tell my students and the people that you

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know are in my community, that is an inspiration when

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I see them willing to change their way of thinking

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and try something new. It inspires me to do the same.

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So how did I end up where I am? It's

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you know, I'll give you the short version of the

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long story. I started playing, you know, as a young

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child when I was four, played for my whole life,

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not always at my own drive. You know. I had

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a lot of incurrent from my parents who said, why

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don't you just stick at it a little longer at

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the points when I wanted to quit, And then I

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pursued an undergrad and a master's degree in classical piano performance.

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And when I started my undergrad degree, I had this

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incredible teacher as my you know, my channel lesson teacher

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during my degree, and she was like, you're you're waitressing

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at a restaurant and you're going to teach. You're going

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to teach. I'll teach you how to teach, and so

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she kind of mentored me in starting my own studio.

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And I started teaching when I was a freshman in college,

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and it allowed me to pay for my undergraduate degree

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while I was going to school. I got myself through

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grad school with that degree and then I have never

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really stopped. It has allowed me to put into practice

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everything I've learned, and there's been different seasons of life

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where performing was in the spotlight and teaching was in

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the background, or vice versa, where teaching was in the

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spotlight and performing was in the background. But I have

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never stopped teaching, and I've always loved it because I

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really enjoy figuring out how to explain things as simply

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as possible, or in the clearest way possible, so that

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hopefully as many people can understand well.

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And there's thank you, thank you for sharing that. And

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I'm partial to the piano, perhaps you are too, but

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it's the easy is instrument to learn on. I mean,

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it's just black and white and it's patterns, and it's like, yeah,

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I mean if you take it apart, like a puzzle

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piece and you just focus on one pattern, you can

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kind of just learn I mean begin to learn there.

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But I love this the many courses that you offer

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online and for our listeners out there that want to

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learn more about what you offer, where would be a

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good place for them to start? I mean YouTube or.

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Yeah, I mean, as you said, I have so many

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free resources, which I think is such a wonderful place

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to start because I truly believe that in this day

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and age, the best thing about the online world is

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that you get to choose who you learn from, right,

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And so a YouTube channel or YouTube videos are a

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great way, in a very low risk way to see

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if you really vibe with someone's teaching style. And so

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I have a lot of YouTube videos, and then I

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also have you know, my course that is the most

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popular currently, which is called Read Music ten Times Faster.

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And it's all based in exactly what you're saying, which

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is breaking down like what I consider to be the

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five most common of the musical patterns and the ones

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that you really need to be able to do, like

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recognize quickly in order to actually get you to your goal,

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which with most of the people that I work with,

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their goal is to play the piano beautifully, right, And

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so what are the patterns you need to know in

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order to actually fast track that?

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And one of the I don't know if you tuned

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in to my last week's show, I had Aaron on

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here from Piano Marvel and we got to talk about

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forgive me, I'm not good at remembering this kind of stuff,

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the sas or something about your score for reading music.

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Oh okay, I know, I'm so so anyway, in the

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back of my mind, and I recently saw a promotion

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that you're doing for like reading music faster. I'm like, oh,

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I've been waiting for this. I'm like, I have to

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sign up, which I will because even playing this many

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you know, so many years, and I read music and

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I play music. I still I'll repeat what I said

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to Aaron last week, and that is for me as

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a teacher also student, but for me when I'm teaching,

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I specifically focused on the student that I had last week.

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And I say this to several of my students, and

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this student as an adult, and I said, I mean,

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I respect, disrespect to anybody out there, or me or anybody.

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I said, but when we're playing the piano, you know

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you have your travel cluff, your bass cleft, your right hand,

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your left hand. The left hand is the slower child,

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and so we need to give that child a little

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bit extra love and attention. So my thing with teaching

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is let's focus on the left hand first, because the

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right hand's got it going. And so so your course

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for teaching, you not only teach like how to read music,

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you teach like confidence, You teach like specifically there's so

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many breakdowns of your different focus on the piano. There's

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it's like a buff if you don't mind me saying

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your program is like a buffet, Like if you go

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to like I don't know, we go to like an

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Asian buffet here and there's like fifty different dishes, Like

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you have all of the dishes going on, and it's

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like you can pick whatever you want and if you're

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not sure, you get to try them out. It's just

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such a beautiful gift you give the community and the

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world because this is worldwide.

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Thank you, Thank you. I do try. I mean the

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buffet idea. I love that. I've never heard that analogy,

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but it's true. You know, when I was teaching private lessons,

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and I'm sure you can understand. You will resonate this

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with this as well. When you're teaching private lessons, someone

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will sign on for lessons, and usually it's kind of

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like indefinitely, right, Like you'll sign on usually under the

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assumption that they're just going to continue going until they've

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learned as much as they want to know. And so

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when I first started creating online courses, I was creating

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courses that were really big, that really broad topics that,

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and it just was too much. I was finding that

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I was overwhelming the students a little bit and they

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were getting great results, but they were also like, wow,

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I could spend like two years on this one course.

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And so I started narrowing down a little bit and

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focusing on many more courses, but like they all focus

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on one specific thing. And when I started doing that,

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the feedback that I got was just wild. People loved

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it because it does like you said, it allows them

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to go to the buffet and pick exactly what they

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want and then they can always come back for more

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if they want to or not. But they get that

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they get their actual problem solved versus me trying to

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solve all the problems in one course.

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And what you just said, I love that and I've

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used it in my teaching as well, problem solving instead

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of going to the frustration phase of it or the

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frustration feeling of learning it, like Okay, let's break it down,

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let's problem solve it. And you offer that breakdown. You

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offer like okay, like this is me talking, you know,

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let's take this puzzle apart. Let's just look at it

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piece by piece before we put it together. And I'm

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not speaking for you speaking for myself, and maybe I

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would think you may agree. You know, when you when

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we teach a student, there's like you really can't say, Okay,

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you're gonna know this song by this date, right, And

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that's the frustration because we live in this microwave Amazon

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order it like overnight world, and if I can't have it,

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then well then it's just not gonna work for me.

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But when we look at it like problem solving, and

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again this is just me talking problem solving, it is

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like you're thinking. You're not like wondering when the delivery

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I got it. I can figure this out. And it's

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almost like you're a reward to yourself as a student,

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Like you're rewarding yourself by saying I can figure this out,

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For learning absolutely.

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get started with piano, let's say has a busy schedule,

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can't necessarily get one on one teachers Live, which is

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the best. Second best in my world is online because

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I do take classes online as well. What course would

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you recommend a beginner to start off with in your program.

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and I preface that by saying, there is I have

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a free YouTube video where I show you exactly how

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to read notes on the grand Staff. And you do

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need to know how to read notes on the grand

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staff in order to do that course. But with that

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free video and the course, you'll be able to do it.

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And that's the one where you really go through and

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I show you how to like I not only show

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you how to read notes and intervals and major and

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minor chords and key signatures and rhythm patterns, but where

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I drill them with you. And I created that course,

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you know, with the idea of like, how could I

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really translate a one on one lesson to a course format?

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And so I literally sit there. There's I mean hours

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of videos of me going through with these slash cards

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with you, and I drill you on all of this information,

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and I do it slowly and then I take you

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through lightning rounds so it's faster, you know. And so

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it's I basically did exactly what I do with my

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what I used to do with my one on one students,

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in a video format to try to get people that

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same exact result even though it's an online course versus

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a one on one lesson.

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And then again for our listeners out there, your direct website,

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what is it?

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So it's actually Jyong dot com? So actually is a

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sahl ee the letter J and then young dot com

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and there I have a store page and you'll be

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able to see all of my courses. But the Read

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Music ten times Faster courses on.

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There, okay, so pretty much that would be Read Music

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ten times Faster would be the first course to start with. Yeah,

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an idea of music notes first.

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have taught students before the past who want to learn

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by ear and such. But I just think the more

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holistic we can be, the more well rounded we can

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be as musicians, the easier it is to speak the

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language fluently, right, And I think that's true with a

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lot of languages, Like you can learn for sure by

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just listening and repeating what you hear, but I think

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it gets you so far, and I just like to

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approach it from a more holistic standpoint, Now, do you.

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Do you also privately teach in your area or you

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just are you just focus on what you do so much.

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I mean, I see you on Instagram, I see you

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on Facebook, I see you on YouTube. It sounds like

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I'm always online and I'm really not. But any I'm

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always learning, I'm always feeding my mind. So you're you know,

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I'm piano. You're there, you know. So yeah, do you

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do you teach privately still or no?

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I don't currently. I think, you know, maybe eventually I'll

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started back up again. But I've been all online since

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twenty twenty three and definitely twenty three.

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Yeah awesome. Yeah do you have I mean, I'll probably

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ask this again. Do you have any specific I'm not

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gonna say aha, but any specific messages you'd want to

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share with our listeners who are wanting to get involved

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in piano and why piano would be the instrument to

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start with other than my two cents.

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Sure, well, I do like and appreciate what you said,

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which is that you know, the piano is one of

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the easiest instruments to visualize all music theory concepts on

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because we can see it and it's like, you know,

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it's far enough away from us that we can see

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the whole entire piano, and that really does make a difference,

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especially when you're learning about things like chords or harmony,

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and so in that way, I think it can be

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really helpful. But the other thing is I think that

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you know, because when you're playing the piano, well, I

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guess I'll back up. When you're playing any instrument, there's

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always the physical component, right of like how you actually

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have to physically move your body in order to play

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the instrument. And I think because it's different than a

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would win instrument, right like we don't have to like

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take a deep breath and learn how to breathe properly

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and all of that, I think it can be one

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of the quickest instruments to get a result on. Not

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like you, not in the way where I can promise

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that you'll be able to do anything in a certain

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number of days, but when you know you can pick

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up a piece of music and you can kind of

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get it to sound at least somewhat like that piece

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of music sooner I think than a lot of other instruments.

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takes a really long time to just figure out how

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to make the violin sound like a violin and not

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like a screepteet cat. And so the piano has like

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less of a barrier to entry than a lot of

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other instruments. And I think for adult beginners, the thing

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that I always like to remind people of is it

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touches on a little bit of what you said, but

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is it like to just be patient with yourselves. I'd

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love to give this little exercise, and I do it

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in a couple of my courses where I have people

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kind of like reminisce or think back to their favorite teacher.

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could be a teacher from elementary school, or maybe a

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coach or someone from church, Like just any adult who

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when you were a kid, like they made a difference

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in your life. And when we bring those people to

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the forefront of our memory, chances are that those people

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were kind and encouraging and they helped you to believe

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that you could do something even if you lacked that

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belief in yourself. And I think when we set out

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to learn an instrument, it's so important as an adult

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to like show up for ourselves in that way, and

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to speak kindly to ourselves and to say like, I

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can do this, I can figure this out. You know.

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If something's going wrong, it's not because there's something inherently

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wrong with me. It's because I probably need some more answers,

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you know, or I need to take a deep breath,

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or I need to take a break. So just kind

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of showing up for yourself in that way, I think

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could be really powerful and can be the difference between

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success that comes from like an enjoyable journey and frustration

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and maybe a little bit of success that comes from

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like a pretty not enjoyable journey.

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Absolutely, absolutely, and I'm sorry, did I cut you off? No,

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it's funny or relatable. A lot of times I'm working

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with my students and regardless of what their age is,

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and especially the older ones, because we like it's so

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like wrapped up in our like and responsibilities and what

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we have to do and what we have to take

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care of, and we're hard on ourselves because we have

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great expectations. However, whether it be my adult students or

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my my kids students as I say, child children's students,

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I always remind them be kind and be patient, with

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yourself because it's it's you. And then another another thing

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or words that I found helped with my students is

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value what you do, like if you're okay, I have cats,

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So I use this as a as a an example.

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If I have to take out the cat litter, you

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know it's got to be done. It's a chore, right.

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But if you're investing your time, and my mom always

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taught me, time is money. If you're investing your time

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in learning an instrument, no matter what your age is,

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you've made the commitment, show up and value what you're doing,

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like take into account like your presence, like what are

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you doing? Why are you doing it? And going back

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to yes, be patient and be kind with yourself because

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you want to learn it. Another big thing that well

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you mentioned, but another big thing I find in life

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in general is if I don't if I get frustrated

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at the pianoists because I don't have clarity, I'm not

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understanding something. So again going back to my students, Yes,

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you need to be patient to give yourself the understand

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the time to understand it. And if it's something you

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don't understand because you haven't learned it yet, so be

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okay with that, Like, you don't know everything, although we'd

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like to know everything. For me, when I'm new pieces,

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I get frustrated. I'm like, okay, this is new. Great.

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I get to learn something new because I have no idea. Yes,

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and that's the beauty of being a student. And so yeah,

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I just I love all that you do. I love

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the different the different classes you give. Please share, I know,

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but please share with our listeners the different focus classes

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that you provide.

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Sure. Yeah, so I have I have the Read Music

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ten Times dash of course, which we were talking about,

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and that one is focused on how to read faster.

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I have a couple of things that go along with

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that that are different resources, like a pattern decoder that's

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a PDF that kind of shows you, like how to

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recognize the patterns in real music. And then I also

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have something called the site reading cheat Code, which is

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another it's like a PDF and some videos and that

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goes through the steps that you take every single time

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you sit down to site read a piece of music.

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And I always like to clarify that site reading is

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really playing something really well on the very first track

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is true sight reading. And then I also have, you know,

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I have some courses that are very specific. So, for example,

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I have a pedal course that shows you what all

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the pedals are, how to use them, how to get

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your foot to coordinate with your hands, and how to

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also decide on pedaling in a more advanced level if

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that's something that you are doing. I have a rhythm course.

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That one's really important, and I get a lot of

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really good feedback about that course because a lot of

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people don't realize that rhythm is interconnected to everything else

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that we do at the piano. You know, people will

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often say like, oh, I'm struggling with hand coordination issues.

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Can you suggest some hand coordination exercises? And I always say, well,

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hand coordination is very rarely about the hands and the fingers,

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and it's most often about a lack of clarity of

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your brain not being able to build really clear directions

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to your hands about where they need to be on

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the piano and when they need to be there. And

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when you start to really look at the rhythm and

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figure out how to count things out loud, you attain

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that high level of clarity. And so something that seemed

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really complicated and impossible all of a sudden starts to

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feel much more simple, and the hands coordinate together because

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they have that common thread that's tying them together, which

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is like the rhythm aka the counting right right. So

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I have that rhythm course, and then I also have

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actually tomorrow, I have a brand new course coming out.

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It's called Learn Any Piece in Half the Time, and

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that course really focuses on the steps that you can

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take every single time you're learning a piece of music

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in order to achieve success, right, because a lot of

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people think like they have to reinvent the wheel every

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time they learn a new piece, but it's really it's

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the things you want to do in the same order.

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You know, you listen to the piece, you figure out

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the fingering, you want to look at the rhythm, and

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it's kind of those same things plus a few more

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that you go through every single time. And when you

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do that, you build this really solid foundation not only

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for the piece that you're trying to learn, but also

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for any piece you ever want to learn. And so

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that that course is going to be basically like the

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read music ten times faster course, but for actually learning

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Peace said the music. And so I'm really excited about

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that one as well. And there's more, but I'll stop there.

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I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, yeah, you

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know this conversation. A similar conversation came up last week

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and I mentioned it to Aaron. And I'll reflect on

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a couple of my students. I have one student, adult

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student I've been working with for a few years, and

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then I have this new student and she is she's

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like level five, let's say. And my adult student plays

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like easy easy music, easy pop, not not by letter,

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but like not advanced but not beginner type of music. However,

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my the difference is it's almost as if, like my

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00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.559
younger student, she impresses me and inspires me so much.

467
00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.200
She says to play like she'll play canon and D

468
00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.519
like it's so easy, and it does and take her

469
00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:05.640
two seconds, but to play both hands where my other student,

470
00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:09.119
I forgot the name of the song that we're well,

471
00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:11.680
I'm not going to say the name right but we're

472
00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:14.880
in this place or something that's a similar name of

473
00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:16.920
the song. He's working on it right hand, left hand.

474
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But the left hand it's almost like it's not following along.

475
00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:25.759
Let me say properly, but it's just not it's not

476
00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.920
moving along as well as the right hand is, and

477
00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:30.519
which I mentioned earlier, left hands a little bit needs

478
00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.039
a little bit more attention. But I'm wondering if there's

479
00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:38.599
like the studies on the brain with eye hand coordination,

480
00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:41.839
because I have more students like my adult student than

481
00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.359
I do my younger student who just jumps in and

482
00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.079
she can just play like it's no challenge in your

483
00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:52.359
years of experience, and you as a piano player as well.

484
00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:55.640
But tips, and I know I'm not the only one

485
00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:59.160
out there, what tips would you share with not only me,

486
00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:03.279
but with our lists for how to smooth out like

487
00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:08.079
both hands so that you're not stopping or constantly stopping

488
00:26:08.200 --> 00:26:13.200
to to get get one better than the other, or

489
00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:15.960
get working together.

490
00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.319
Definitely to be and to be friends. I like that

491
00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:20.920
this is I mean, this is a tricky one and

492
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:22.880
I always, I always have to laugh a little bit

493
00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:24.960
when I'm about to give this answer because people don't

494
00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:28.279
like the answer, so I'm always a little bit hesitant

495
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:31.759
to give it. But in all of my experience, honestly

496
00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:37.000
that it usually does come back to specifically counting out loud.

497
00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:39.599
And the reason is because, I mean, we have these

498
00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:42.759
two separate hands, each with five fingers, so totally there's ten.

499
00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.519
It's a lot of different things that are happening or

500
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.720
could be happening at the same time. And because of that,

501
00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:51.680
there's also a large margin of error of any number

502
00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:54.799
of things could go wrong at any given time. And

503
00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:58.200
when we have one hand that is dominant, so if

504
00:26:58.200 --> 00:27:01.240
you're right handed, perhaps it's your right hand, and with music,

505
00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:03.799
oftentimes it's the right hand because for some reason, like

506
00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:06.319
we all, the trouble clutch seems to click for most

507
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:09.920
people more than the base cleft. There's you know, that

508
00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:12.119
idea that like the right hand's just a little bit easier,

509
00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:13.880
or we hear the melody and so it's easier to

510
00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.599
mimic the sound of the right hand. And when it

511
00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:18.440
comes to getting the left hand on the right hand

512
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.680
to work together, we're essentially asking different parts of our

513
00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:25.160
brain to control different parts of our body and make

514
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:27.799
them work in a very specific way. And so the

515
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:31.799
analogy that I like to give is the counting out loud.

516
00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:36.359
It provides the skeleton, it provides the structure. And what's

517
00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:39.559
really cool is that if you count out loud, you

518
00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:41.440
can do it slow, you can do it fast, you

519
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.119
can do it upside down backwards, eyes closed, because you

520
00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.440
really have that like solid skeleton. And I want you

521
00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.000
to kind of imagine like if you were to take

522
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.559
like a a skeleton and take the structure out of it,

523
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:55.880
or like you just like a bag of bones on

524
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.200
the floor, right, and nothing really makes sense but that structure.

525
00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:01.480
And the reason that we recognize the picture of a

526
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.720
skeleton is because the structure that holds it there. And

527
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:06.799
so the same is true with music when it comes

528
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:08.680
to the right hand and the left hand. Any issue

529
00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:10.440
between the right hand and the left hand is usually

530
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.000
because there's like a little bit of confusion or lack

531
00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.279
of organization or just lack of clarity on exactly when

532
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:22.319
everything fits together. But once students know, like well, I

533
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:24.599
know the left hand is supposed to play on B

534
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.240
one and B two and B three, the counting out

535
00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.599
loud is literally turning you into the conductor. It's like

536
00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.680
you're giving those verbal directions constantly to your hands, and

537
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.640
so it doesn't matter if you practice it slowly or quickly.

538
00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:40.640
You have that like common thread or that that skeleton

539
00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.319
that's holding it all together. So that's the first thing.

540
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.400
And then the second little thing that I think sometimes

541
00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:50.559
can be an issue if that is not the issue.

542
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:52.880
So if they're like solidly counting out loud. The other

543
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:55.039
thing I like to look at is technique and just

544
00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:58.160
making sure that someone isn't like trying to get each

545
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:02.079
individual finger to be responsible for each individual note, and

546
00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:04.119
just making sure like they're loose in their shoulder, they're

547
00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:06.960
loose in their wrist, and they're you know, guiding their

548
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:09.920
arm with their elbow as opposed to each individual finger,

549
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.119
because sometimes that can also be a little bit of

550
00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:14.680
an issue, but usually the biggest issue is the rhythm,

551
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:15.799
the counting.

552
00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:19.519
And one of your courses. I know you've I've seen

553
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:23.960
videos where you've said, if you're you know, playing note

554
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.599
by a note, it's like reading a word letter by letter,

555
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.640
and then.

556
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:30.519
Like you're never going to read Shakespeare that way.

557
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:35.319
Yes, yes, I heard you say that, and it's so true,

558
00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:38.519
and I know so many times. For this one particular student,

559
00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.599
I'm going, all right, let's focus on the shape. But

560
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.480
let's remember the shape of your hand to know like

561
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.160
what you're playing now, you mentioned counting. Are you talking

562
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.559
about time values or counting like what finger you're playing?

563
00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:54.200
So in this specific instance, IM kind of about the

564
00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:56.160
time values. Yeah, So like if it's four four time

565
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:57.720
you're counting one and two and three and four hand

566
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:00.079
I do say counting, you know, saying your fe what

567
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:02.599
numbers that a lot can be very helpful when you're

568
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:05.279
learning your finger numbers. But yeah, with the coordination issues,

569
00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:07.359
it's more rhythm based.

570
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:12.279
Very interesting. Yeah, I would love to. I don't know

571
00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:14.240
if I have the know how or even the time

572
00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:20.440
to do more investigation on how the brain learns right

573
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:25.480
hemisphere life left hemisphere, and how to marry the hands

574
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.359
together to be friends so they play nicely together. Yes,

575
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:34.759
because it does take extra practice now from some of

576
00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:39.559
what I heard, and please correct me if I'm not right.

577
00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:42.200
But you are classically trained, is that correct?

578
00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:43.039
Yes?

579
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:47.519
And so when you approach teaching, do you have a

580
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.640
genre that you focus on when you practice yourself or

581
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:52.519
when you teach.

582
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.839
Yeah, I mean I love classical because it's what my

583
00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.359
background is, and so I do tend to get a

584
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:02.119
lot of people that are interested in classical. But you know,

585
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.920
I also get a lot of people that are interested

586
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.759
in playing like their favorite musical theater pieces or pop pieces,

587
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:10.400
and I am comfortable to teach all of those. And

588
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:15.039
I would say my methods work for most piano players,

589
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:17.720
with the exception of and I'm very willing to admit

590
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.039
I am by no means an expert when it comes

591
00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:24.839
to like advanced jazz or advanced improvisation. I could teach

592
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:28.000
you the basics there, but beyond that, I don't have

593
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:30.599
experience with that. And so when people will comment like,

594
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:32.279
you know, will this work for me my goal is

595
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:36.880
to improvise in a jazz combo, I'm usually like no, no, no, no,

596
00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:41.720
I don't. I'll have to recommend some other teachers. But otherwise,

597
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:43.359
you know, if you want to play any music from

598
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:46.160
sheet music and you're not looking to improvise in an

599
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:49.160
advanced way, than all of the courses will work.

600
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:54.599
Okay, So thank you. Going back to your courses again.

601
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:58.160
For friends of ours that are just tuning in listeners

602
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:02.119
that are just tuning in Ashleyjyong dot com.

603
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.200
Yeah, and it's actually with to ease a shl ee j.

604
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:10.640
Young and plus you can find you anywhere just type

605
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:14.240
in piano and Ashley, and I love that you are.

606
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.279
I mean, you have such a knack for this and

607
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:21.480
I personally thank you for all the information that you

608
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:26.440
share because it's so much information. It's not to take

609
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:31.079
away from taking a course like I've learned personally, like

610
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:33.799
I've fished that I'm like, oh, I have a question.

611
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:36.880
I wonder like what what this means or how this

612
00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:39.240
would be different or I want to learn this, and

613
00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.000
I can find that different places on YouTube. But to

614
00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.799
take a course, like you really get committed and whether

615
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:50.279
it hurts your brain or not to go through it,

616
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:51.839
because I know I took a course and I'm like,

617
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:55.039
my brain is like so over like powered. I've like,

618
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:57.160
I don't know what I'm going to like gain from

619
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.680
all this because I can't see the forest through the

620
00:32:59.720 --> 00:33:04.519
tree kind of thing. Because it's the way I guess,

621
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:09.119
the way our brain learns. But there is this part

622
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:13.400
in life where it just clicks, just like playing a song,

623
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.519
like how long is it gonna take? Well, I don't know.

624
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.759
But if you just practice these little measures in chunks

625
00:33:18.799 --> 00:33:21.160
of this is my teaching. You know, we practice it

626
00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.160
in chunks, so we break it up. You don't need

627
00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.319
to practice it in order because if you keep starting

628
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:29.359
at the beginning, you're gonna know the beginning so well

629
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:33.440
that you're not even gonna want to finish it. So

630
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:38.400
so anyway, what I'm getting to is thank you again

631
00:33:39.039 --> 00:33:44.440
for all that you provide online, for answering questions, and

632
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:48.519
for being so detailed in your in your approach to

633
00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:53.319
teaching and more so, you know, like let's say teaching piano,

634
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:56.279
Like you have one one thing I've seen actually several

635
00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:59.000
times about how to read music faster, and you have

636
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.240
this clip. Whether it's fifteen twenty minutes long, I don't remember,

637
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:05.160
but that's not enough. And I'm not saying that as

638
00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:08.199
a teacher, and I'm saying that as a student. Like,

639
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:11.239
once you get involved in taking the course, whether it's

640
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:14.960
three weeks, six weeks or if you're online, you work

641
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.760
all the time. You've got to do it when you can.

642
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:21.119
You know, you make the commitment and it's a discipline. Yeah,

643
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.920
and you learn, and because a lot of it's new,

644
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:27.159
you can't put a cap on how long it's going

645
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:27.599
to take.

646
00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:30.840
Yeah, and it I think the thing about courses that's

647
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:32.960
nice is there's not holes that you have to go

648
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.320
back and fill later. You know. I always tell people

649
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.960
like you can anything that's in my courses is actually

650
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.639
online for free, just in a slightly different format, just

651
00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.159
because of the nature of like you said, you know,

652
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:44.760
a twenty minute video is not the same as a

653
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.360
course that lasts several hours. But the thing that's nice

654
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:49.519
about a course or about having a private teacher is

655
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.960
you're not going to have those holes because everything is covered.

656
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.559
And because I've been doing this for so long, I

657
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.000
now know like the mistakes people make, and so I

658
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:01.320
cover the mistakes in the courses preemptive right, And so

659
00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.800
they're set up in a way to really help people

660
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:06.320
get the most amount of success as possible with the

661
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:09.039
least amount of time and effort, because, like to your point,

662
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:11.639
it's going to take a little time and it takes commitment,

663
00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:14.400
but if you have the right information in the right order,

664
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:16.960
it's usually a lot straight or path than if you're

665
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:19.000
trying to go around and search for all of the

666
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.119
information and you're wandering and getting distracted.

667
00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:25.840
Now with your courses online, are they for all ages?

668
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:28.599
Are they for young children? All the way? Child? Like

669
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.159
one hundred or one hundred and twenty people are living

670
00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:36.960
told today as I heard earlier today, But do you

671
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.880
is it for all ages or do you specifically have

672
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:41.599
an age group you'd like to focus on.

673
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:44.880
I focus on adults, and a lot of what I

674
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:47.079
teach so I actually get a lot of teachers that

675
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:48.880
buy my courses because a lot of what I teach.

676
00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:50.760
If you are a teacher or if you're a parent

677
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:53.679
that's very involved, you can turn around and then use

678
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.639
that method to teach your students. But I wouldn't necessarily recommend,

679
00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:59.559
like giving one of my courses to a ten year old,

680
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.280
because I don't. I don't talk to I would.

681
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:01.760
I would.

682
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.480
I would do it a lot differently if I were

683
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:07.119
recording the course for the child after having taught kids

684
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:09.360
all my life. So yeah, they're not recorded with kids

685
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:11.239
in mind, but the methods would work if an adult

686
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:14.039
wanted to watch and pass. Those methods belong.

687
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:19.559
Right, Okay, and then I know what the answer is

688
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:23.119
and I know what I would say. Awesome. Do you

689
00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:27.320
students necessarily have to have a piano? Can they? Can

690
00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:31.239
they have a keyboard? And are you when you give lessons?

691
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:33.639
Does it matter whether it's a forty four key or

692
00:36:33.679 --> 00:36:34.639
an ad key?

693
00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:38.320
Oh man, this is another tough one. So I would say,

694
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:39.559
this is what I always used to say when I

695
00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:42.840
was teaching private lessons. If someone really wants to start

696
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:46.519
a kid and they cannot, they cannot make the investment

697
00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:49.440
for a piano or a larger keyboard. I would say,

698
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:51.920
you know, for a month or two if you want

699
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.480
to test it out and you want to, like, you know,

700
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:56.400
learn how to read music, learn the basics of reading notes,

701
00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:58.519
and learn the basics of where the keys are on

702
00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.360
the piano. You can probably get by with one of

703
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:04.440
those keyboards that's a few octaves or not all eighty

704
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.000
eight keys, but anything beyond that, I would highly encourage

705
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:11.440
someone to get a nicer keyboard or, if possible, a piano.

706
00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:14.639
I mean, in my opinion, like a digital will never

707
00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:17.199
they get that's gotten really good, but they still though,

708
00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:20.119
I'm never going to exactly replicate the feel and the

709
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:22.239
sound of an acoustic piano because the sound isn't pretty

710
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.320
the same way. And so if it's possible, and I

711
00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:27.519
know it's not possible for everybody, and that's okay, you

712
00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:29.519
can learn on a keyboard, but if it's possible, it

713
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.840
would be best to get the nicest instrument or the

714
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:34.400
best acoustics that you can. And I'll give the caveat

715
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.079
which is that there are so many organizations that are

716
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.559
giving away through pianos because a lot of people don't

717
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:41.960
want to pay to move them or don't have the

718
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.639
space for them. And so getting a piano nowadays is

719
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:46.400
actually not what it used to be. It's not you

720
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.400
can get them for free off of Facebook, Marketplace, and

721
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:51.360
so just keeping that in mind too. You can get

722
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:55.440
really nice keyboards, really nice pianos for very inexpensive, if

723
00:37:55.480 --> 00:37:56.000
not free.

724
00:37:56.239 --> 00:38:00.199
Yeah, that's true. In fact, I got this orl or

725
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:04.639
through marketplace. Yeah, because I think a family was moving,

726
00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:07.000
the kids were grown, they didn't want to move it,

727
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360
and so I just had to pay for it. Well, no,

728
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:12.719
I paid less. I paid I think twelve hundred for it,

729
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:14.119
but it's but I had to pay for it to

730
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:18.760
be moved. However, there are other I've had other experiences

731
00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:22.800
where I bought a piano and I well I didn't.

732
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.360
It was given donated and I just had to pay

733
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.519
for it to be moved. Yeah, and that's that's a

734
00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:31.400
whole nother conversation because then you have to try half

735
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:35.960
the piano, and I have another conversation. But I do

736
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:39.159
the same for my young my young students or anyone

737
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.880
interested that has not gotten involved with piano yet. I

738
00:38:42.920 --> 00:38:45.039
would say too, Yeah, to try it out. Spend less

739
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.239
than one hundred bucks on a keyboard. Yeah, see if

740
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.440
it fits, see if it sticks, and then make the investment. Yeah,

741
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.960
because it's an investment. I said this out at a

742
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.400
performance for MT and A. Are you familiar with the

743
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:02.239
MT and A. We had an event, I think the

744
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:06.480
Halloween Musical, and I had said to the parents and

745
00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:09.800
the students, I said, you know, when you invest in

746
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:13.320
your kids and your grandkids and learning piano, you're giving

747
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:16.639
them a gift of a lifetime, because as you know,

748
00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:20.760
it's and you've had probably you've had different schooling than

749
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.159
I've had, and I would believe you would agree with me.

750
00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:29.400
You learn such a discipline from being the student and

751
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.599
even being the teacher, because we learn from each other

752
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:34.119
and we learn from our students. But there's such a

753
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:38.800
discipline to the practice that goes that reigns on all

754
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:43.599
other areas of our lives. Absolutely, it helps support so

755
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:47.679
much more because you know, it's just it's a focus.

756
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:50.280
The discipline is a focus that we just take into

757
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:51.159
different areas.

758
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.519
Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah. I love to tell my students, like,

759
00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.360
you know, there's not an end goal, like you're never

760
00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:59.559
going to reach perfection, And I think it's the most

761
00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.920
beautiful for anything we want to do in life and

762
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:04.239
for life itself, that if we just show up every

763
00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.519
day with the intention to practice, knowing that perfection is

764
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.639
not the goal, but knowing that we can also probably

765
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:12.639
get a little bit better or a little bit of

766
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:16.079
progress each day. That's that's what music is, right, And

767
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:17.440
in that way, I think it takes a lot of

768
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.199
the pressure off that we have to accomplish things by

769
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.079
a certain timeline or you know, especially if you're an adult,

770
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:25.239
it's not like you're trying to pass a college exam.

771
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:27.719
You're doing this for fun likely, and so taking that

772
00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:30.840
time pressure off and that immediacy off and just showing

773
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:33.440
up for the practice, you'll learn so many things. And

774
00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:35.159
that's the other thing that my students tell me is that,

775
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.320
you know, they took a course on rhythm, or they

776
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:39.360
took a course on reading music faster, and they learned

777
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.559
other techniques on how to like organize their work life better,

778
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:44.239
or how to show up with their kids in a

779
00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.679
different way. Because music is so it permeates every part

780
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:49.800
of our life. It's it's a human experience. It's not

781
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.119
just about you know how, trying to play one piece

782
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:53.599
as quickly as possible.

783
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.119
Right, right, Yeah, and not to get too off the

784
00:40:58.199 --> 00:41:01.360
subject and probably meant in this in a few minutes

785
00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:05.840
to it for me and don't we don't know each

786
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:09.679
other that well. But for me, I love improvisation and

787
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.880
I play with I kind of play by feeling the

788
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:16.159
energy in the room, right, so I channel it in

789
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.360
and I play it. And the reason why I'm bringing

790
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:20.960
this up whether I'm playing it that way or I'm

791
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:25.719
reading music playing somebody else's music, I mean, I still

792
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:28.360
encourage my students to improvise, like once you know the rules,

793
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:28.599
you know.

794
00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:30.480
How to break them kind of thing totally.

795
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.320
But the point I'm getting to is that this is

796
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.719
this is silly, but I'll use analogy we have there,

797
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:42.920
like are twelve basic notes. There are twelve basic sounds.

798
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.679
I mean there's more, we know there's more, but there's

799
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:49.119
there's twelve basic notes. And so to feel and to

800
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:53.000
listen to the difference in the sounds and then to

801
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:57.280
realize that everything around us has a sound and a vibration.

802
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.519
And you know, there's so much research on healing and

803
00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:06.920
how sound healing raises your vibration and raises your healing levels,

804
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.800
whether you're listening or learning or playing, there's such gosh,

805
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:18.519
there's such a magical space and place when you're playing

806
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:22.039
an instrument that you unless you're doing it, it's hard

807
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.440
to explain. I mean, it's what I've mentioned a few

808
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:28.519
minutes ago, is it's a gift you give not only yourself,

809
00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.679
but your kids, whoever you're investing the music in to,

810
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:35.559
or you yourself, like I said, and I mean I could,

811
00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:39.280
I could talk music twenty four seven. It's just there's

812
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.320
so much magic in it. And you as a performer

813
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.159
as well. You know, when you've sat and you played,

814
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:47.840
there's there's I don't want to speak for you, but

815
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:51.079
I would imagine you. You know, once you know your piece,

816
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.039
you can just kind of go into that zone and

817
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:56.960
and fly on that. I mean, do you want to

818
00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:57.960
fill in the blank yet?

819
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.719
I mean, that's that's exactly what you said about kind

820
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.440
of like channeling the notes through. I kind of imagine

821
00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:05.679
that with the feelings too, Like if I'm playing a

822
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:09.400
piece by Beethoven, I'm like trying to capture the emotion

823
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:11.679
and the feeling and the story and the human experience

824
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:14.280
and bring it through in the notes. And so I

825
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:18.719
always imagine like a bubble around me and the piano

826
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:21.440
and whoever's listening, and like, whatever I'm creating kind of

827
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:23.199
exists in that bubble. And I think the beautiful thing

828
00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:25.159
about music too is that it's one of a kind.

829
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:27.679
Even if you and I were to both perform the

830
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:30.679
same Beethoven piece on the same piano, one ride after

831
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:33.679
the other, it would be completely unique and completely different.

832
00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:37.119
And in that way, I do, I do absolutely stand

833
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.119
with you in the fact that it's magical. Yeah, it

834
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:39.880
is magical.

835
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:42.480
It is magical, and I love it. And I highly

836
00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:48.039
recommend everyone being a student of music and again being

837
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:51.440
partial to the piano. I that who the wants to

838
00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:54.559
start with. But you know, if you have other instruments,

839
00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:58.320
you know starts somewhere. I just know with the piano,

840
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:00.800
you learn the instrument and you learn how to read music.

841
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.880
I've told my students, so you can play every instrument

842
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:07.280
in the world after that, but once you learn the basics, like,

843
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:08.880
this is the place to start.

844
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:10.639
Yeah, I totally agree.

845
00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:15.440
Yeah, and yeah, So we have a couple of minutes left.

846
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:17.599
Is there any last minute words you want to share

847
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:18.360
with our audience?

848
00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:23.280
Actually, let me think for a second. I think yeah,

849
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:25.719
I would love to I would love to share something

850
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:28.039
that I like to remind my students of which is

851
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:31.480
you know, I I come from the school of thought

852
00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:35.679
like I enjoy the learning side of the pieces and

853
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:38.119
like the journey and trying to, you know, figure out

854
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:40.360
that journey. I enjoy that just as I enjoy like

855
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.239
the magical side, which is what we're talking about of

856
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:46.880
like performing, but I think recognizing that there are there's

857
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:48.639
a time and a place for both, right Like that

858
00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:51.000
you're sitting there and you're practicing, there's gonna be a

859
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:52.840
time where it doesn't There's gonna be a lot of

860
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.639
times where it doesn't feel magical, where it might be frustrating,

861
00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:57.639
and it might be it might feel slower than you

862
00:44:57.679 --> 00:44:59.519
want it to, and it might feel like your brain

863
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:02.920
is like literally breaking in half because it's so challenging.

864
00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.440
But in those moments, if you can take take that

865
00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.039
frustration and just ask yourself that question, like what could

866
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.360
I learn? What do I need to learn in order

867
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.559
to do this? I think that's such a golden question,

868
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:16.199
and just approaching your practice with that like open playful

869
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.800
curiosity of like this is not life or death. You

870
00:45:18.840 --> 00:45:20.400
know you can learn it if you have access to

871
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.440
the right tools and letting yourself exist in that space

872
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:26.639
of learning and just enjoying that process even when it's frustrating,

873
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:29.639
and then also letting yourself have fun and just make

874
00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:31.920
the music. You know, if you're putting in the practice time,

875
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:33.920
and what I tell my students all the time is like,

876
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.760
if you're putting in the practice time, especially if you're

877
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.760
using that practice time correctly and you're practicing in ways

878
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:42.280
that are effective and efficient, then there also has to

879
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.280
be a time where you turn off that part of

880
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.480
your brain and you say, Okay, now I'm going to

881
00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:48.360
sit there, I'm going to play through this piece for

882
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.920
fun and I'm just gonna I'm just gonna feel it,

883
00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:53.079
and I'm just going to trust that I did enough

884
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:56.119
practice and that now I really get to like make

885
00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:59.519
the music and just go for it and trust yourself,

886
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.480
because I think both can be challenging, but I think

887
00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:05.519
I do see students really like sticking or sticking in

888
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:09.599
that stage of like learning the pieces or just playing

889
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:11.920
the pieces right, and they're not letting the sells. Kind

890
00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:13.719
of go back and forth between those two spaces, but

891
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:16.280
both are equally as important, and especially if your goal

892
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:19.480
is to make music, then schedule time in your practice

893
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.199
session or use the last fifteen minutes to just make

894
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:24.599
music and just like have the time of your life.

895
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:26.840
Just have fun and bring that energy and I'll feeling

896
00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:27.079
to it.

897
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:29.679
I love that well, Ashley. Thank you so much for

898
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.360
being a part of our show today. And in closing,

899
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:34.719
please share with us how for our listeners how do

900
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:36.280
we find you online?

901
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.119
Sure? Thank you so much for having me. This has

902
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:41.639
been a joy online on YouTube and on Instagram. I'm

903
00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:44.800
actually Young Music Studio, and then my website is actually

904
00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:47.679
Jayong dot com. Actually you spelled with a shl ee

905
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:50.159
the letter J, and then Young dot com. I'm in

906
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:51.199
all those places.

907
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:53.679
Great, I can talk to you for another hour or two,

908
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:57.880
but yes, thank you so much, Ashley, and we will.

909
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.480
We will be in toauch. We will talk soond Thanks

910
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.719
for having me absolutely, thank you so much for tuning

911
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:08.440
in today, Ashleyjyong dot com. Check out her website or

912
00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:11.079
even just type in her name and you'll get to

913
00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:14.880
watch some of her videos. I'm so excited she was

914
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.239
on our show today. But that being said, thank you

915
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.800
for joining us. I'm so happy that you're here with

916
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:24.639
me today and wishing you well much love and happiness,

917
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:28.840
wherever you are, and for US Florida people here it's cold,

918
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.400
so if you're here in Florida, stay warm. And in

919
00:47:31.480 --> 00:47:35.639
other states it's cold too, so stay warm and tune

920
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:58.519
in next week