Ronald Worthy

When the practicing "blahs" strike, you just need an attitude adjustment. You don't have to sweat blood to practice well. You don't even have to think of it as work, or duty, or even something that you ought to do.Stop a minute...

There is no substitute for practice. By spending a couple of hours with your instrument every day you develop a special relationship with it.You need to have a regular practice routine that contains certain constant elements (such as warm-up...

Training your ear is much the same as training your dog: you keep shouting orders at it until it recognizes what a certain sound means.For example, if someone sat at your piano and kept playing major chords without interruption for two straight...

Shell voicings are simple but functional.They make use of the root and either the third of the seventh any chord. Sometimes referred to as "shell" voicings, these are commonly used as left-hand accompaniment in the piano stylings of Bud...

You are neither too young nor too old to play piano and compose. If you think otherwise, get that fairy tale out of your head.A few geniuses began at age 3 and burned out in middle age.

If you are like most people, your performance of a piece of music “at first sight” could probably stand some improvement. Oh, to be able to breeze through a brand new piece without all the stops and starts!What you may not realize is that...

Rarely is a chord played with its tones contained in a single octave, the root on the bottom, the third in the middle, and the fifth on the top.Usually chords are "voiced!"This basically means that the positions of a chord's tones are...