Kissin Plays Beethoven, Changes to Musictheory.net

To be a great pianist, watch great pianists.  Obviously there's a LOT more to it than that, but you can no more skip this step than you can be an NBA basketball star without watching the players already there. This is the great Evgeny Kissen performing Beethoven's Rondo e Capriccio (also known as the very strangely nicknamed "Rage Over a Lost Penny")  Please note: if you are reading this blog page as an email subscriber, you will need to follow the link to the actual blog post to see it.

Changes to Musictheory.net

In an earlier blog post, I gave an introduction and tutorial to using musictheory.net, focusing on the note identification exercise.  The video shows how to set up the exercise so that it suits you.  The website has since changed their format.  If you go to www.musictheory.net, click on the Exercises tab, you no longer want to just click on the exercise.  Instead of going to the setting page first, it will now begin the exercise WITHOUT YOUR CUSTOMIZATION.   Before you play the game, you need to scroll down the page until you see FOR TEACHERS, and click on Exercise Customizer.

From this point, you can set up the exercise(s) exactly as I demonstrated earlier on this blog.