Like most children, I was naturally drawn to music at a young age. Unlike most children, I was dying to learn how to play it. My father is a skilled rock guitarist and was always playing in bands when ...

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In the early 1980s, my father got a Baldwin upright electric piano. My dad had played piano as a child and in college. He’d performed live, improvising soundtracks to silent movies at an art-house ...

Beginning Sept. 16, Mississippi State’s Community Music School will offer a new series of 10 evening classes for adults interested in learning how to make music and play the piano at a relaxed pace.

This week, as we near the end of 2024, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. n June, after a three-decade rest, I started playing the ...

Learning the piano as an adult is easier than you think. But the right teacher is essential. If any teacher uses the letters “AMEB”, it means exams and playing music chosen by someone else. Run a mile ...

WHEN MARIA DOLAN was 6 years old, she wanted to play the piano. Check that. She had to play the piano. Needed to play the piano. The world was going to stop revolving if she did not play the piano ...

When Margo Thorning was a high school student in the late 1950s, she liked to play bongo drums while listening to jazz records, but it never occurred to her to take a drum lesson. She attended college ...

Instructor Masako Yoshimori, left, teaches Shinichi Nakazawa during a piano lesson in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Dec. 17, 2024. (Mainichi/Tatsuya Fujii) TOKYO -- Musical instruments are a famous way for ...