How to Practice the Piano: Tips from a Veteran Piano Teacher - Paperback

by Patricia Tanttila Holmberg (Author)

This is a book with tips for how to practice the piano written by someone with fifty-seven years out in the trenches with piano students. It takes the reader through the process of choosing the next piece to work on, and then through the steps necessary to arrive at the point of being able to perform it well.

Author Biography

Patricia Tanttila Holmberg is a native of Central Montana who moved to Colorado to attend the University College of Music. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music (in piano performance) there. She taught one year at Gulf Park College in Gulfport, MS before going back to Boulder for grad school, and then two years in the Arapahoe County Public Schools in Littleton, CO. After those two years she began teaching piano in her home studio as she raised her five children. She is still teaching and loving it as much as ever now that her children are grown and she has 10 grandchildren and two great grandsons. She is grateful for music in her life, and the fact that, even as much as you learn, there is always, still yet, another insight or challenge waiting around the corner. It is never dull and boring, and provides healthy mental activity along with much sheer enjoyment for an older person. Pat has composed numerous piano pieces (much - thought not all - of it in the jazz/ragtime genre), choral music, instrumental, orchestral and vocal music. Descriptions of those may be seen at her website: www.patholmberg.com