Ear Training

[Lesson]

Shadow of Your Smile

[Lesson]

Yoke Wong has a wide array of free Youtube videos

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Ensemble piano and keyboard techniques is the focus this weekend.

Private lesson students this weekend will take a look at the different aspects of ensemble piano and keyboard playing. [More here]

Piano Guy Scott Houston has a successful approach to learning piano but...

...but there are elements he leaves out that I think beginners can fully comprehend. He has over-simplified things to the point where his course is a bit mind-numbing... but of course, that's my opionion viewing it as an expert. He's on youtube and I'm not... to borrow Chevy Chase's phrase. Let's explore Scott Houston's site at this thread where you can join me, posting with approval.. [+]

The Apartment full piano score presents some new aspects to learning how to play.

[+] Join me in discussion where we'll look at how to play the full score of The Apartment.

Learn Little Brown Jug through Youtube viewing.

I'm going to attempt the impossible here... teaching piano lessons for free for now, using online Youtube videos and not even playing the piano... rather watching the piano and other instruments being played. As I pointed out-- this might seem like an impossible way to learn to play the piano however... I believe I have some elements here that are going to revolutionize the method by which we attempt to teach piano. So... view the videos for little Brown Jug here...[+]

Online piano lessons present a myriad of problems not yet solved.

I still do not believe online lessons work very well. There are particular features of lessons-- of explaining how music works-- that are not dealt with on any online lesson sites I've seen. The idea of the integrated approach is not done anywhere I've seen... even in print. I'll look forward to developing a semblance of what I think would work here in this blog over coming months.

Micheal Buble's "I Haven't Met You Yet" struck me as odd, but here it is.

I've been working on "I haven't met you yet". The lyrics seemed odd to me from the start, but here it is anyway. (to be updated shortly)

Stravinsky is not strictly classical -- Larouche warns against him.

Larouche warns against Stravinsky's music... I'm not entirely sure why-- but I've done a cursory search on the problem and I've made a suggested listening link here as well... which I have the music for and which I'll attempt to play at the restaurant tonight. More... with links... [+]

GOPIANO.com free online lessons look promising.

Here's page 1 of the GOPiano.com series that allows you to get started on the basics right away. I'm not sure how young ages would handle this but I'm confident that the average 8 year old should be able to. Certainly teens, and onward through adulthood should. I'm very interested in older people's learning skills too but there are new elements involved in later years that I'll add along the way... such as food supplements to keep the brain quick and agile... The younger person has less problem with memory and speed but more challenge with discipline, stick-to-it-iveness... and focus.

Here's page on of the GoPiano.com series... [+]

These Eyes-- 1968

Test forward link

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Piano Lessons Etc. just getting started so...

...so until there's more here... simply use my current piano lesson site here-- [+]

Heartaches by the Number

Piano Lesson

1. Listen and watch Ray Price's original recording
YouTube - Ray Price - Heartaches by the Number

2. Listen and watch Allen Dale play his excellent piano version.

YouTube - Allen Dale-Heartaches by the Number

3. Sing along to the kareoke version.

YouTube - Dwight Yoakum Heartaches by the number

4. View the chord chart with lyrics. 

Heartaches By The Number

5. Print out free sheet music.

Guy Mitchell - Heartaches By The Number Sheet Music (Print Instantly)

6. Call me or email me for lessons. (see contact info in index 001. welcome). 

Etcetera

Check out today's "Etcetera" blog piece on why the Fed has to be nationalized... and why it ought to be.. and why it never should have existed in the first place.  It's very existence is causing the USA and the world to have heartaches... by the number. 

Etcetera: National the Fed Act was put forth in 1994

Study every issue of Executive Intelligence Review by Lyndon Larouche to understand the true nature of the economic disaster the world is staring at... and what the physical economic solutions are... water, power, space... fixed exchange rates... Glass Steagall to separate investment banking from chartered banking... something FDR installed.. etc. [+] Lots of free articles. Lots of current history. 

Bookmark Larouche's Daily News page for up to the hour reports on the attempted World Government destruction of the nation state system... and attempted depopulation. 

Updates Page

Study Rolf Witzche's critique of the NAWAPA irrigation plan. 

NAWAPA overview, by Rolf Witzsche

Listening Assignment

Hayden's Creation

YouTube - William Christie - Haydn, The Creation

Discussion

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Please CLICK HERE for www.PianoLessonsEtc.com

This site is under construction and new as of Sept 2010... so please click on this link for the current version of PianoLessonsEtc.com at RickPotvin.com [+]

New website www.PianoLessonsEtc.com will expand my online business.

[www.PianoLessonsEtc.com]

For promotional purposes, I've established and will develop www.PianoLessonsEtc.com. It's an easy-to-remember URL that will be used to compete with other online piano lesson services out there.

Absolute and relative pitch.

Read this article.
Pure Pitch - Master Absolute Pitch & Relative Pitch

Enter the threaded discussion forum.
Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: PERFECT and RELATIVE PITCH

Etcetera

| Etcetera

Absolute beginners ages 6-106 start here.

The only way to begin piano lessons is to begin listing and listening to music you enjoy. There is, in fact, no such thing as a "piano lesson". What we do in a piano lesson, as it's called, is create music. But what music do you want to create? This is the first element to deal with. The piano is merely a means of recreation of the music. There is plenty of opportunity to view and listen to preferred music given the internet now-- MIDI files, MP3 and Youtube all come in handy.

Here are a few to begin with...

[+] Lyrics and Music
Alphabet Song

Lyrics and Music
A Tisket, A Tasket

Lyrics and Music
Ants Go Marching In

There is really no point in trying to learn to play more sophisticated material until you learn to play these basic nursery rhymes. The same theory applies so why not begin at the beginning?  Here is the sheet music for the above tunes...

Alphabet Song
http://www.kididdles.com/pdf/alphabetsongsheetmusic.pdf

A Tisket, A Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, a-Tasket Sheet Music (Digital Download)

The Ants Go Marching In (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
Free sheet music : Gilmore, Patrick - When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Piano solo)

You can instantly see that the playing of these tunes is no small matter because the notation is substantially involved. This isn't to say you can't sing or play these by memory or by ear. Of course you can. The point is that to learn to "play the piano", you'll have to understand that notation as well-- otherwise, you'll end up at a dead end, limited by what you can recall, note by note. That's not much of a piano playing hobby.

YouTube offers some pretty wild possibilities for self-education that were not possible a few years ago. I'd like to offer piano learners the opportunity to use these tools. For example, here are the same three children's tunes given my YouTube search...  selections that are perfectly appropriate for absolute beginners as well... by virtue of the fact that a piano student absolutely must listen and explore and enjoy...

The Alphabet Song (originally Mozart's 12 variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) on a Youtube Music Reading Video... (don't worry if you can't follow along as it's played... however if you CAN, it's a lot of fun.. and helps you learn to play it.)
YouTube - Mozart: 12 Variations "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" KV 265 (Clara Haskil)

A Tisket A Tasket is actually a sophisticated jazz tune made famous by Ella Fitzgerald... so what you think is an elementary childish tune, often is no such thing.
YouTube - Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Here's a cartoon version of The Ants...
YouTube - THE ANTS GO MARCHING

... and a child plays the original titled version on a keyboard
YouTube - When Johnny Comes Marching Home on the Piano

...finally, the original version set to a video of the Civil War where the song originated...
YouTube - When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again / Gettysburg Scenes

It's pretty startling to witness realistic war scenes like that... but its how the American Republic was won against the onslaught of the British Empire... an onslaught that continues today in monetary warfare... but to end this article... listen to Oscar Peterson's jazz group handle A Tisket A Tasket...
YouTube - Oscar Peterson Quartet: A Tisket A Tasket (Feldman/Fitzgerald)


CLASSROOM (Threaded Discussion forum for questions and comments)
 Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: BEGINNGERS 6 - 106

Scale chords in the scale of C

Scale chords in C [+]

Try Simply Music is likely a hoax.

I'm in the process of reviewing this. [+]  There is no indication of the method exactly. No examples. It's a marketing con.

Latest "New Age" piano artist Jim Brickman on Youtube playlists-- teachable.

          Maybe you're interested in learning to play like Jim Brickman.... or write piano music like Brickman's. It's comparatively elementary stuff-- I consider it to be New Age and I'm not a big fan. But it's teachable... and it can be found at Central Music or online.... I can find the best sites for you to visit if you're interested. YouTube - Jim Brickman - Joyful

brickman joyful chords - Google Search

          You can see that his printed music has chords written into it... which is a step ahead a lot of the printed classical music you can buy...

Piano Sheet Music - Jim Brickman - Grace (Piano/Vocal/Chords - Piano)

          Be sure to check into my Etcetera Blog to read my latest public observations on the world-at-large-- especially the crashing financial economy.... through the eyes of PHYSICAL economist and Classical Humanist Lyndon Larouche-- who has the ANSWER to the worldwide crisis we face... namely FDR Bretton Woods (fixed exchange rates), Glass Steagall (separate investment and chartered banks), and a 3rd National Bank (replace the FED). Laugh all you want-- the REAL economists are NOT dismissing Larouche at all.

This week, we'll look at The Music Man.

For those of you attending our home studio lesson program, Dorothy Motto will be instructing you this coming week and weekend on the broadway play / movie entitled "The Music Man".  Since we now have her Technics organ set up beside the piano you'll use... it'll be fun for you to play your songs with her accompaniment. Now THAT is a piano lesson! You become part of her ensemble... just like the pros! I'll update this page in coming days with Music Man links I recommend you view.

Be sure to explore the rest of my index just below... there are plenty of interesting angles I've provided for piano students to enter the world of piano playing. You'll surely find something that interests you. Over the next few months, I'll be organizing the posts in a more logical way for an online student to start with the easy stuff and proceed to the more complex. For now, it's random access because I'm only getting back into the work of an online (unpaid) course. It's a labour of love for now.

Let's all look at the Schiller Institute... and their music division.

Today, I'd like everyone to look at the Schiller Institute....
The Science of Music

Listen to the 9th Symphony right at the top--- it may be a bit uncomfortable for you if you've never heard it before... but I highly recoomend it...

Be sure to explore the alphabetical index just below to view other piano topics. If you're looking for a wider perspective on the world at large... click on Etcetera.... at the very bottom of this page.

A great example of a 2-chord famous rock song you can do.

PIANO LESSONS

HORSE WITH NO NAME
A favorite old rock tune from 1972, A Horse with No Name, by Neil Young-- uses just 2 chords. We'll transpose it to various keys using the roman numbers technique. It's really amazing from several points of view. When you take piano lessons from me, you get insight like this... that you normally can't get anywhere else. You can look for it a long time on the internet... but I can point to it quickly.
1. LISTEN --> [+]
2. Observe CHORDS & Lyrics --> [+]
3. Guitar instructor describes the basics chords... useful for the piano player as well. TAKE NOTES! ---> [+]
4. Sing along on this kareoke video... HAVE FUN---> [+]


MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
This sing a long is a favorite of mine because I use it as a conversational metaphor all the time... I'll tell you why later today. ENJOY---> [+]

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ETCETERA

NUCLEAR POWER - Thorium
There is still time for the world to be saved... and I'm tracking the "new" thorium story line for piano students here. You can't play piano if you don't have civilization and you can't have that without advanced high energy flux density power. VIDEO---> [+]

CRYOPRESERVATION
As many who know me know, I'm a proponent of longer lifespan and even immortality... but I differ with all the other immortalists in the world in that I'm a proponent of physical immortality based on Larouche described spiritual immortality. Two new avenues I'm working on are Owada magnetic freezing of foods... and the saline preservation of lobsters that have been reanimated. Old fashioned vitrification is, in my view, obsolete. We won't even need perfusion. VIDEO---> [+]

NAWAPA - Irrigation Project.
I'm following this story too... and you can... just google nawapa. VIDEO---> [+]

DEPOPULATION
There are vast conspiracies that want to depopulate the Earth... it's true. Think about this way... Ask yourself... Is it concievable that there would be anyone interested, in power, who indeed would prefer fewer humans on the planet? Maybe you yourself are like that! Well, the answer to that is Vladimir Vernadsky and biogeochemistry... but for the moment.. check out the Georgia Guidestones... as an indicator of the existense of a secret group that appears to want fewer than a billion people. VIDEO---> [+]

DENTAL
PERIOGEN "dissolves" tartar instead of having to have the dentist scrape it off every 6 months... and if you use a Waterpik or Hydrofloss, you can penetrate the deeper gum pockets with PERIOGEN... and dissolve it there too. This is a breakthrough item. VIDEO--> [+]

LAROUCHE
Latest issue of the flagship magazine, EIR- Executive Intelligence Review Online

Money or Credit?

Use "single note bass chords" to generate a complete sounding harmony.

A faster way to get started on creating chords on the piano that sounds good right away is to use a single note for whatever chord you want in the left hand. Of course, you'll need the chord above the staff... so you'll need to be careful not to purchase or use printed music scores that do not have that addition. If you're stuck with a piece with no chords, simply follow the lowest note in the bass line as your guide. It won't always represent the chord, but it will more than likely represent a note that belongs to the chord... which will be good enough.

Enter the Classroom

DOROTHY'S LESSONS
Some of you are taking lessons directly from Dorothy... so if you're checking into this website to see what she's preparing for you this week, I'll tell you in advance. You'll be listening to and playing several of the songs from broadway play... which was made into a movie... from 1962... "the Sound of Music". It's one of Dorothy's favorite broadway shows... and at the end of your lesson booklet I've added to her instruction with an advanced looked at the chord progressions in these songs. You'll be applying Dorothy's own arrangments of left hand patterns to each of the songs... so we look forward to delivering this to you so you can add it to your repertoire.



ETCETERA - 1973 OIL PRICE HOAX
This morning, I looked at the historical event which is still affecting us today... and which is getting worse... in it's effect.. the 1973 so-called "Energy Crisis" or the "oil price crisis". The CURRENT SOLUTION for the REAL energy crisis... not the phony 1973 oil shortage... is NUCLEAR POWER using THORIUM!!! If you go into this area... you'll help save mankind. You really will. Someone ought to write a song about that. Maybe I will. [Classroom Discussion Forum]

ENJOY CHINESE FOOD AT GOLDEN BUDDHA RESTAURANT
... where Dorothy and me play piano....5:30 to 9 nightly. [+]


SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 MESSAGE FROM LYNDON LAROUCHE
[How to Rescue the World Now]

Development of this website

I'm still in the conceptual design phase of this website... so it doesn't make a lot of sense yet from the perspective of the visitor. However, it IS taking shape, gradually. In this header... labelled 001, I'll update the progress as I see it. You MAY have been referred here recently.. in which case there isn't too much to be expected other than noting the general layout... which is in my view, utterly fantastic. Note that when you click on an index item, the paragraph required appears instantly. It's a beautiful concept site... with it's own URL to boot. Many possibilities exist for all topics using this format.

How the online piano lesson program will work. 


    I don't know yet. (Sept. 2010). I'll work on this soon.

Significance of Mozart is higher than normally considered.

Here's a quote from Larouche on Mozart... with the pieces he's referring to...

Art & Science
Compare this with a comparable challenge from the domain of Classical musical composition. Take, as a sample, two specially related compositions of W.A. Mozart: first, his "Ave Verum Corpus," which was a relatively very late work in his life-time, a composition which is to be compared with his important, earlier song, "Abendempfindung."
This Present Century : The Secret Economy's Outlook by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (Jun 4, 2010)
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YouTube - Mozart Ave Verum Corpus por Leonard Bernstein
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YouTube - Mozart: Abendempfindung - Arianne Abela Senior Recital
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The Glow Worm -- just for fun.

Here's a tune that was first composed in a serious music style... and then was later revamped as pop tune in the 1950's... Glow Worm. I've surfed the net for a few interesting links I'd like you to view now...

http://www.ajsmidi.com/alpcond/alpha_07/midi/glowworm_tjk.mid
http://www.ajsmidi.com/alpcond/alpha_07/midi/glowworm_tjk.mid
Glow Worm... midi file

YouTube - Mills Brothers - Glow Worm (live, 1957)


YouTube - Paul Lincke : Glühwürmchen Idyll (Glow Worm) For Orchestra From Lysistrata - Rare Recording

YouTube - [HD] ♥♥♫ "Glow Worm"


Paul Lincke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Broadway play CD and lesson book-- My Fair Lady

This week, we'll be looking at the 1963 broadway play My Fair Lady based on Pygmalion by that playright George Bernard Shaw... for which there is a theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake where I attended a few plays travelling to and from on bicycle in my teens, from Niagara Falls. Anyway, enough about me. On with the show...I've put together my own Youtube playlist-- learning a few painful programming lessons along the way... and I can now present you with the lesson plan...

1. Listen to the playlist.
2. Get my booklet.
3. Learn the songs by singing and listening.
4. Learn to play them.
5. Write your own musical play and have it performed by a cast of actors in the theatre of your choice. Grade will be assigned based on New York Times reviews. Just kidding. But... maybe it's not such a bad idea anyway. What do you think?

Here's the playlist.. get started.. and have fun.

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Homework links... listen, read and watch... Schiller, Rachmaninoff and more

Homework time... you have to view these if you're going to take lessons from me on the piano.. .some of them are directly related, some are not. If you're part of my high school extracurricular program... you're expected to go through all of them... younger students.. can take a few of them.

http://kunstderfuge.mid.s3.amazonaws.com/7/mozart_piano_concerto_23_488_2_%28nc%29fisher.mid

Piano Concerto No. 12 (Mozart) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YouTube - Mozart. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (European Pictures)

YouTube - Horowitz plays Mozart piano concerto 23 2nd mov

YouTube - Mozart Piano Concerto No.23 Movement 2 (Horowitz)

YouTube - Mozart Piano Concerto No.23 Movement 2 (Horowitz)

YouTube - Rachmaninoff Prelude Op.23 No.5 (Richter)

schiller institute - Google Search

The Science of Music Articles

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/music/audio_files/LYMrallysong.mp3

Elementary fingering

First of all, you will need to think of each finger (and your thumb) as numbered from one through five. Your thumb is "finger 1" and your pointer is "2" and so on. Of course, your left hand will begin with the thumb as "1" as well. Here is a diagram of your right hand with the finger numbers. See if you can count your own fingers like this right now...






Next, use the fingers of your hand to play 5 notes in a row. Those notes do NOT have to start with C. You can start on ANY note. For example, the following diagram shows the five notes you will play begin with D. 







When you play the notes, make sure that your fingers are curved as follows... because it's important than each key be struck with the same amount of pressure. Only when your fingers are curved can you control your finger muscles properly to control how loud or soft the note will be. Learning to do this early is important. Notice in the picture below that the hand is holding tennis ball. By imagining your hand holding a tennis ball as you play, you will have the proper curve on your fingers. 

Suggested viewing-- experimental learning / instruction process continues

     This blog is only a prototype... of something I have a vague idea of... in other words, I'm not sure where I'm going with it... but I have elements such as... my recommendation to "students" to view these sites and videos I've picked out for you this afternoon... they're all rated ok for kids... and any adults too..

The Collaborative Piano Blog

YouTube - Weird Al Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

YouTube - Carnival of the Animals - The Swan

YouTube - Balloon Boy - The 5th Dimension - Up, Up and Away

     Basically, be prepared to consider a few of these with seriousness after you've enjoyed them... in particular, I have the music for The Swan... intermediate level... but I still need the chords and chord analysis for the very funny presentation of Up Up and Away... you can find them and post them here... As far as Weird Al goes... consider his articulate and very legible lyrics... and we'll talk about how high a rating he gets and why... finanally the collaborative piano blog from the RCM where I attended school for a time... is worth looking at. 

    Lessons are basically conversations of growth... where there is an exchange... I'd say about 80/20  in favor of my giving new ideas to the student-- that's why they're the student.. but the feedback I take (the 20%) is required for me to "hear" what that student wants... and to use it for my own growth... Read Grow or Die... to learn more about that... google it yourself... the Future of Education is online... like this I think... and this is still developing. If you are in high school and require extracurricular piano classes, give me a hoot.. at rick_potvin@yahoo.com... 

Youtube and other experiments in online piano instruction/inspiration

YouTube - fun piano exerciess

YouTube - A Fine Romance Piano Jazz Exercise Sheet

YouTube - A Fine Romance -- Billie Holiday 1936

YouTube - Lena Horne - A Fine Romance

A Fine Romance

YouTube - A Fine Romance - Jazz piano tutorial

YouTube - Oscar Peterson: A Fine Romance (Kern / Fields, 1936, from "Swing Time")

YouTube - A 7 year old child singer piani

YouTube - Learn How to Sing - KenTamplinVocalAcademy.com INTRODUCTION

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3 chord method book available for lending.

Ask me about the 3 chord method book... I have a few copies available for a one-month lending period...

Training singer/songwriter/piano players in a crashing economy.

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Piano moon landing

piano on the moon - Google Search

piano in space - Google Search

lunar lander piano - Google Search

piano lander - Google Search

moons surface piano - Google Search

pianomoon - Google Search

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July 3, 2010 

PIANO METHOD BOOKS vary in reading skill level

As a piano teacher, I'm in the process of categorizing the method books I have in my vast collection so that any particular student can be assigned a book with an appropriate reading level and a concommitant playing level. It's quite possible, for example, to have a student who has high reading skills but low playing skills. The reverse, good playing skills already develeoped but poor reading comprehension calls for a different type of book. Method books to piano students are as critical as nutrient and medicine to medical patients-- just the right type of medicine at the right dose is key. It's my job to figure out that particular match. [More...] 

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Sunday, July 4, 2010 - 
Oil leak disaster in Gulf of Mexico

What does it mean to "celebrate" July 4 Independence Day when we have BP dumping tens of thousands of barrels a day... ??!!... of "dispersant" into the Gulf of Mexico... while HUNDREDS of thousands of barrels a day of oil, gas and molten rock continue to pour into the water from an underground volcano???? This is outrageous and horrible. There cannot be this amount of COMPARTMENTALIZATION in people, can there? Yet here it is!!! Some form of psychological breakdown must be occurring in the leadership of the US and in the citizens. More....[+]

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Monday, July 12, 2010
Revolutionary alternative dental care products ignored by dentists and hygenists. 
The dental industry is ignoring amazing new alternative dental care products. The latest new developments on my horizon are gums-topical CoQ10 and plaque dissolver... to be covered in the following forum... [here] 

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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Oil Rig weblog

oil rig - mass media blackout 

"mass media blackout" "gulf of mexico" - Google Search

"hoax" "gulf of mexico" - Google Search

Gulf Oil Spill Another Extinction-Level HOAX?, page 1

The VIRTUAL BP SPILL HOAX EXPLAINED!!!

"illusion" "gulf of mexico" - Google Search

Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano. Basically from what I understand, it is a soda bottle effect. If they had drilled into the top of the volcano, then all the gas would rise out, and explode as would bottled carbonated liquid. The effect of drilling into the side permits a safely controlled release of gas, tar, liquified asphalt, and other related gases. What was done is a more or less controlled release; almost natural in fact!

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Hoax - Connecting The Dots

asphalt volcano - Google Search

asphalt volcano - Google Search

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Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano.

haliburton - Google Search

Other News - Halliburton

BigCharts - QuickCharts

The Asphalt volcano was a win win situation for this false flag: as it presented the best illusion to all outside parties. Not only do the conspirators need to fool the general public, but also the oil industry, and scientific community. The public is easy to fool, but the latter two groups take a little more effort; this is the main reason why the Gulf is being isolated by security contractors, and military.

We've all seen the videos of beaches not lined so much with oil, but with tar balls of varying sizes. Also, we've all noticed BP's overall lack of concern for cleanup. We've seen booms which aren't tied together. We've heard first hand account of staged clean ups on the beaches. As soon as a press conference, or media event is done BP stops work. The reason is simple, it's not that they don't care, but that they already know what's gonna happen. The oil will start naturally being cleaned up via decomposition, oil eating organisms, and falling to the already naturally tar covered bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

FIRST FLYOVER I"VE SEEN!!!!

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Hoax - Connecting The Dots

Giant oil skimmer 'A Whale' deemed a bust for Gulf of Mexico spill | NOLA.com

YouTube - **Update** Toxic Rain in Florida

**The Obama regime shut down the WordPress host of 73,000 blogs this week, citing 'abuses.'  Since when, in a free society, does the government have the authority to shut down the free speech/communication of its citizens?

Orwell's nightmare--big brother is here

73000 Wordpress blogs shut down by US Government‎ Geek.com - John Brownlee - 1 day ago Torrent news site TorrentFreak is now reporting that Wordpress host Blogetery has been shut down by United States authorities… along with all 73000 ... Why 73000 WordPress blogs were shut down by the US Government‎ - Helium US Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73000 Blogs‎ - TorrentFreak (blog) 73000 blogs taken offline. ISP remains silent.‎ - Gadgetsteria (blog) Techdirt  all 13 news articles »

wordpress - Google Search

So why are we witnessing such fundamental changes? Well, the globalism and "free trade" that our politicians and business leaders insisted would be so good for us have had some rather nasty side effects. It turns out that they didn't tell us that the "global economy" would mean that middle class American workers would eventually have to directly compete for jobs with people on the other side of the world where there is no minimum wage and very few regulations. The big global corporations have greatly benefited by exploiting third world labor pools over the last several decades, but middle class American workers have increasingly found things to be very tough.

>>>bigger picture--??? tariffs... protectionism... Alexander Hamilton...

Did Larry McDonald Survive The 'Shootdown' Of KAL 007?

Mentally, people seem to be losing the ability to think clearly, sanely, positively on any topic you wish to name. The rate of memory loss and higher cerebration malfunction are of epidemic proportions, and affecting people of younger and younger age groups. It seems that what we as a Race learned over tedious centuries in order to claim Rights of harmonious existence is being abandoned in a race to become more and more greedy, cruel, and maleficent.

Jeff Rense Program

Today, armed drug cartels openly challenge the Mexican government. Deadly battles occur frequently in Mexico, where more than 6,500 people were killed by cartel forces last year and more than 5,000 have been killed so far this year. Paramilitary bands have entered the United States illegally and set up sentry and command posts. 

HARTWELL: Obama lawsuit invites fortified state militia - Washington Times

Is Madman Obama Going To Bomb Iran?

A flurry of propaganda has surfaced over the past 48 hours, indicating that, in the aftermath of the Obama-Netanyahu White House love-fest last week, the Obama Administration is seriously considering military action against Iran. If it were simply a matter of media black propaganda, the threat would be limited, at best, given U.S. military resistance to another Persian Gulf war.

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OBAMAWATCH, EMPIRE

Updates Page

Will Thousands of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos and Anarchy Across America?

That is the question asked by one Michael Snyder, the editor of a blog called "The Economic Collapse." Snyder, in a column posted last night, reports that a billboard in Stockton, California, is perfectly clear on that question: "Welcome to the 2nd most dangerous city in California.

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Frank-Dudd Bill Will Increase the Derivatives Cancer—As Intended

Forget all the malarkey you are hearing and reading about "regulation" and "financial reform"—good, bad, or indifferent. The real-world result of the Frank-Dudd bill passed by the Senate Thursday will be to open the floodgates for the bankrupt banks to further increase their cancerous derivatives bubble, which is responsible for blowing out the world financial system.

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ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche Publications

• LaRouche Announces the Role He Will Play Once Obama Goes
  Lyndon LaRouche kicked off the July 6 edition of the LaRouche PAC Weekly Report with an announcement that is bound to send shockwaves through the political landscape in the United States. Referring to the dialogue he held with leading U.S. economists, and representatives of China, Russia, and India on April 29, LaRouche declared that what he outlined in that event formed the basis of a program, which would kick in immediately upon the Constitutional removal of President Obama from office. Once that is accomplished, LaRouche stated, 'I would play a key role in a post-Obama government, not as a member of the government, but as an advisor with many connections, pulling many strings together, to advise on how we bring the world out of the present mess.'

Executive Intelligence Review Online

Piano method books in my teaching program are "loaned out".

I don't require students to buy method books or music books. Instead, I have a vast collection of method and music books that I loan out from my lending libary. Here's a Google survey of piano method books. [+] [+] I still believe everything published that's out there is inadequate to the vision I currently have of but that vision is only going to be more closely approximated over time. The question is, do I have enough time left to approximate my vision asymptotically? Hmmm...

The essential feature of my own vision is "reading". To read or not to read--- that is the question. Reading is becoming a failed art in society in general but I intend to resurrect it in my piano pedagogical method. More in my general forum on this... here... [+]

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Global financial collapse imminent if Glass-Steagall firewall not approved in financial reform bill now being finalized. The Senate vote has been delayed... [+] If Glass-Steagall  is not revived NOW, then piano lessons and everything else associated with civlization as we've known it will be a thing of the past. That's why my piano lessons include Larouche lesssons. My recent tracking of this story is here [+] You can ask questions at that forum site, but your message won't appear publicly until I approve it.

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Bill Clinton points to nuclear explosion solutions to oil volcano. It's very interesting to see Bill Clinton pop up here and there in world news.. that last time being Haiti... Now Bill Clinton-- who had Larouche released from Jail in 1992 after George W. Bush incarcerated him for bogus reasons... is pointing to the only solution for the oil volano in the Gul of Mexico... a high temperature multi-million degree thermonuclear explosion under the seabed floor... to glassify... or vitrify the rock... to seal it. More.. [+]

Reading is essential if you decide on piano lessons.

There are a number of great books out there on playing piano.. and about the theory behind music. You must be able to read them.

[+] Dave Brubeck , 40 Days.


[+] Brubeck, Lover.

[+] Charlie Parker, all the things you are.

Technics organ for sale.

I have a small home electronic organ for sale made in 1995 -- in mint condition- with great sounds and bass pedals. We'll include 4 free lessons on music and organ operation with a purchase. $700. Email me at rick_potvin@yahoo.com ea1 full.jpg 559×464 pixel
More piano topics here---> [+]

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Lactium looks good for sleep improvement. [+]

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Oil rig disaster in Gulf of Mexico is, in fact, an attack by the Queen and City of London.

I've been reading Larouche for more than 10 years now. Larouche's thesis is that The City of London is the home base for the international financial cartel that seeks to destroy the nation-state in favor of a depopulated world under it's own control. BP is British Petroleum-- and every step of this oil rig disaster can be shown to be anticipated and planned. The continuing spewing of bigger amounts of oil every day is like an ongoing 9/11 ... which was also a British central bank led attack. More on this here.. [+] Larouche [+]

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Voice and piano, violin and piano, trumpet and piano.

July 27, 2010.  VOICE + piano / VIOLIN +  piano / TRUMPET + piano. This week we'll look at solo instruments and piano.

It's never too late to start.

I'm often asked if it's too late to start to play the piano. Hey-- I think if it's past your bedtime, it's too late. Otherwise, 7 - 9 pm is fine.

See  the Table of Contents below-- and click on Piano topics... for my latest piano playing related ideas... in forum format. I've created a unique system of online presence here that can be applied to anything... and that, in a most powerful way.

PIano lessons should include nuclear power.

If nuclear power is required for the continuance of civilization, and if piano lessons are part of civilization, then shouldn't nuclear power be part of a piano lesson? It's an interesting thought.

Can IPad be used for piano music?

I'll be looking at the IPad today to see if it can be used to display music easily.

HABITS ARE AN ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT FOR PIANO PLAYING. I find that being interested in a new piano topic is essential for playing piano. The more you know about translating all kinds of music to piano music, the greater the possibilities are for shaping habits that lead to playing. See the link below for the piano forum for more...

LEARN TO PLAY A FEW MEASURES OF FAMOUS BIG PIECES.  It always seemed useless to me to learn to play pieces that nobody knows. Instead, its more instructive and fun to play a few measures of pieces that are well known even if they're fairly complex.

Etcetera....

[+] Well head area cracking up now-- June 21, 2010-- oil volcano increasing to 200,000 barrels a day-- disproves Peak Oil Theory-- and will destroy Atlantic Ocean.... IF it's not stopped with PNE (Powerful Nuclear Explosive). Obama Admin is finished. Suggestion for Piano Students-- Study nuclear explosives-- and heat-- as a tool. This event "changes everything". Obama promised "Change"-- well... in a way... that's exactly what's going to occur based on this event... except not in the way Obama had understood. The best source for TOP INTEL on this event is from Larouche.... study Larouche for true economics and science.

[+] Larouchepac news.

[+] There must be an exception made to the 1996 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to use a PNE (peaceful neclear explosion) to stop the BP oil leak-- which could be bigger than even recently thought.

[+] "deepwater horizon" + "nuclear test ban treaty" on Google search.

[+]. Looking at Google blogs on the above search seems more useful than the main Google results. I found this--

Given that the best-case predictions of .....I believe Russia, knowing the consequences otherwise, would agree to a short period of lifting the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty as long as the data is openly shared with them, heck - they might even help us! ...http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/05/nuke-bomb-oil-spill-cleanup-crazy-russia-gulf-bp



There would be no violation of the nuclear test ban treaty, since it covers only above ground tests. Underground tests ended voluntarily in 1992, mostly because they were too expensive, not because of some high minded ideal. ...http://seekingalpha.com/tag/long-ideas 


In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. [+] 


From the fifties to the seventies, the US conducted hundreds of underground tests, which involved drilling a six foot wide hole 1,000 feet deep, filling it with concrete, and then pushing a big red button. To my knowledge, radiation leaked to the surface in only one case, when a bomb was set off near an unmapped geological fault, frying two ranchers. The explosion would create a cavern deep under the surface which would be sealed by the 400 million degree temperatures these weapons create, containing the radiation. I remember walking around some old above ground sites, and the sand had been turned to colorful glass. There would be no violation of the nuclear test ban treaty, since it covers only above ground tests. Underground tests ended voluntarily in 1992, mostly because they were too expensive, not because of some high minded ideal. All of BP’s efforts to date have really been “Hail Mary’s” doomed to failure. The only real chance is to relieve the pressure by drilling several adjacent wells, and that will take months. If BP has discovered the mother of all fields with pressures so enormous, they can’t be controlled with modern technology, a possibility which some geologists admit, then more huge leaks will spring and the nuclear option will be the only one left. In the meantime, if a serious hurricane hits the region, a mathematical probability, then we will see the environmental equivalent of Chernobyl meets Katrina. In this scenario, you can kiss BP goodbye. http://seekingalpha.com/article/208389-is-bp-becoming-a-value-play

Conclusion-- Looks to me as if Larouche is missing the point about the ban on nuclear testing-- which only applies above ground. Still, it might apply to all tests even below ground and the bloggers are not correct. In any case, the details of how underground tests were done.. and the shape charge and size of the exposion needs to be looked at. This will have to be an effort agreed upon internationally. I haven't seek peak oil hoaxers being ridiculed yet-- nor have I seen other supporters of a US oil independence movement come out and point to this as an example of the size of deposits. Larouche isn't fully decided on whether oil is abiotic or not... the Russians don't think it is... there's something else going on. This accident might expose the entire oil industry as perpetrators of the biggest hoax since the Apollo moon landing-- that there is a limited supply of oil. This doesn't mean we're going to use more oil... because the power density isn't good enough anymore-- 

Fri, June 18, 2010. PIANO LESSONS SHOULD INVOLVE LISTENING. With today's recorded music available everywhere, every piano lesson should entail listening to something being played above the level of skill of the student.

PIANO LESSONS
(((Why do some songs lend themselves to improvisation more easily than others?))) Th. June 16, 2010.  I've been curious why certain songs can be more fun to improvise on than others. I obviously has to do with chord changes-- but what is it about frequency or kind of chord change that makes it easier and more fun to make a new melody for? I don't know the answer to that.

BP DISASTER
Oil rig Deepwater Horizon leak. Obama's talk from the Oval Office was frivolous. The main thing right now is to stop that oil volcano. Only a nuke will do it.

CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES
Financial collapse. We need a global Glass Steagall then fixed exchange rates. See Larouche.

(((Music is sensory or cognitive))) Wed., June 15, 2010. You can categorize all music into two types-- sensory or cognitive.

Oil Rig Blowout in Gulf of Mexico
The only way to stop this thing is with a nuclear explosive. [More]

((( TUNE YOUR PIANO TO A=432 ))) Wed., June 15, 2010.  It turns out that it was the Nazi Josef Geobbels who worked for Hitler who set the new international standard at A=440. Previous to the Nazis, who were the creation of the British, A was lower... around 432. The question becomes--- Do you want Hitler's tuning, or Bach's? [More...]

(((PARTIAL READING MAKES SIGHTREADING EASIER))) June 14, 2010 When reading complex pieces for the first time, don't try to play every note. Look for the critical notes involved in the apparent harmony and try to strike those while keeping the piece moving. 

Beethoven sonatas and Youtube.

It's possible now to read a Beethoven sonata as it's being playing, on Youtube. Try it. I'll post a few links here later today.

Don't move your piano by yourself.  It might look easy to move a piano, but in the case of a grand piano-- especially- you're dealing with a situation that requires knowledge of how the weight of the piano affects the legs if you push it in one direction vs. another direction. Consult a piano mover.

Tuning your piano to A=432 would be counter to what Josef Goebbels of Nazi Germany would have wanted. It was Goebbels who set the standard to A=440. Bach's standard, a few hundred years previous, was 432. Whose standard do you want? Bach's? Or the Nazi's? Ask yourself-- why would the Nazi's have set A to 440?

A piano will produce many tones at once, giving you complete control over the harmony whereas a solo instrument like a violin or saxaphone can only give you one tone at a time, negating any ability to create harmony by yourself. This is why every music student, with plans to play any instrument, should get basic piano training. Piano is a master instrument.

Piano lessons vs. music appreciation

It doesn't make any sense to take piano lessons without deciding first, as a student, what kind of music you like. A piano lesson typically preselects music for you based on various characteristics, like level of complexity, numbers of different notes and where the notes are, types of chords and so on. But even big complicated pieces of music can be reduced to a beginner's level. It behooves the student to initiate his or her own interest in what particular music he or she likes to listen to. If there is no taste evolved, as in a youngster, more often than not, then the piano lesson becomes a music appreciatiou course. That used to be the work of parents but a good piano teacher will be able to select CD's and Youtube videos for a student to listen to.

Tune your piano to A = 432 for better sound.

by Rick Potvin.

If you tune your piano to A = 432, you'll "feel" the difference even without knowing anything about music. There is something to this because there are physical demonstrations of resonance patterns created in salt on steel plates vibrating at particular frequencies that do not occur at other frequencies. What's going on with that? You have to wonder. Google A=432 and you'll see a plethora of information about this.

There's always a larger context to everything. Reductionists don't believe in larger contexts but they're part of an historical world wide oligarchical conspiracy to dumb the mass of humanity down. Either that, or they themselves are dupes. This topic too is part of my piano lessons.