By Anne Sullivan
Sightreading is the easiest thing to practice.
Sight reading is also the hardest thing to practice. The difficulty is that just sight reading a piece may be valuable...
By Anne Sullivan
Do you remember when you were first learning to read music? Your teacher had you learn the lines and spaces on the staff. It felt strange for a while, but soon it became...
By Anne Sullivan
Believe it or not, successful sight reading is less about the notes than about the timing. One proof of this is that traditional sight reading tests given as part of music...
By Anne Sullivan
You may think sight reading doesn’t have much to do with your technique. But here’s the simple fact: you can't sight read a passage fluently if you can't play it....
By Anne Sullivan
You’ve heard about opportunity knocking. It’s not just a saying, it happens. I know because it’s happened to me, and I see opportunity come along for...
By Anne Sullivan
Are you a high school junior or senior getting ready to seriously consider a college choice? Maybe you’re not quite at that stage yet, but you’re starting...
By Anne Sullivan
You can only do so much in a day.
You’ve got school, sports, homework and that’s just the beginning. Your days are jam-packed already, and you haven’t even...
By Anne Sullivan
In September when it feels like you have a fresh start on everything else, you might want to try a fresh start with your harp studies as well. Of course, there is always...
“What did you do this summer?”
That’s the traditional “first day of school” question. It used to be the first school assignment of the year, too, to write an essay...
By Anne Sullivan
Let’s review what we've done so far in our “How to Arrange Anything” series.
- We started by identifying the structure of the piece: the introduction, the...
By Anne Sullivan
Your arrangement starts with finding the basic structure, the outline of the piece. That’s what I described in last week’s blog. If you played that basic structure, it...
By Anne Sullivan
Are you ready to try your hand at arranging your favorite song?
Maybe you’ve already tried arranging, and although you’re pleased with the results, you wonder if...
