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The Most Popular Christmas Sheet Music Downloads
By Paul Tobey · 16 years ago
Only a few weeks before last Christmas, I decided to make Christmas Sheet Music available as downloads on my website. What happened next was a huge surprise event to me! I earned over $3,000 in ...
Piano Lesson – Voicing Your Chords
By Paul Tobey · 16 years ago
It always amazes me when I hear different piano players and how they voice their chords. Voicing is one of those skills that is not talked about a lot but in my experience makes the ...
Learning Piano by Ear - Good or Bad Idea?
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
There are many websites which claim to teach you to play piano by ear. But, the real question is; does it work? Can you truly learn to play the piano strictly by ear? While I ...
Online Piano Lessons
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
I’ve written a lot over the past few month about online piano lessons and that it’s more important how you learn than what you learn. In other words, your teacher can give you reams of ...
Train the Trainer, Mastering the Art of Public Speaking
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
In a world of get-rich-quick schemes and self help books that promise to make you rich and feel worthy at the same time, it’s difficult sometimes to separate quality information from hype. So, when a ...
Why Take Piano Lessons?
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
Did you ever notice how most people who start off at a young age taking piano lessons rarely continue past high school? Then, when these people grow into adults many of them will eventually regret ...
How To Choose The Right Online Piano Lessons For You
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
Back before the internet dominated the way in which we find products and services we relied on more conventional means such as; the yellow pages, print advertising and word of mouth. While these are still ...
I Love Traffic Jams
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
Most web marketers would agree that the number one and most fundamental aspect of any successful website is; “The more traffic, the better!” In keeping with that strategy, please let me share a few thoughts ...
A Public Speaking Nightmare
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
Recently, I attended a keynote presentation by a major radio executive in Toronto. Which, may sound interesting enough but, what happened at this event may make you think twice about how fine tuned your public ...
Public Speaking - The Money's in the Template
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
The best public speakers in the world all agree on one thing. You can’t get good at public speaking without practice. That’s where some public speaking training seminars fail in teaching people how to do ...
Learning to Memorize Piano Music
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
We all have our psychological, emotional, mental and physical barriers when it comes to practicing and/or performing. One such particularly difficult challenge is that many pianists simply cannot remember a piece. However, it is the ...
The Secret Psychology of a Pianist
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
As a professional concert pianist I have over time developed a secret psychology that helps me in any situation. You see, quite frankly I need a psychology that helps me because the music business is ...
It’s Never Too Late to Rediscover the Musician Inside Of You
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
Do you recall the day you traded in your guitar for a job at the bank or gave up your piano lessons to become a doctor? Have you been thinking about rediscovering your musical roots ...
Team Building Seminars – The Winning Corporate Trend
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
There has been a lot of focus in recent years on team building. But what is it exactly and why is it important? Well, to make it really simple; when you work as a team ...
The 10-24-7 Rule - Learning Piano Music The Easy Way!
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
As a professional concert pianist I often have people ask me, "I'm in my 50's is it too late to learn piano?" Well, there is no simple answer to this question since everyone's capacity to ...
Breaking the Tinnitus Habit - A How To Guide
By Paul Tobey · 17 years ago
In regards to breaking the tinnitus habit, I recently received an email from a reader who writes…
“I try to keep myself busy and do things that i enjoy but it seems that my mind ...