Automatic Control of ChordsWritten by Ron Worthy
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TACTILE CONTROL - As you are playing chord, try to feel it muscularly. Play each note of chord, one note at a time, so that you use muscles of hand. You will develop a muscular memory for chords. AURAL CONTROL - Listen to chord. You'll want to know its sound so you can instantly recognize and use it later on ... "by ear"! http://www.mrronsmusic.com/playpiano.htm

Ron Worthy is a Music Educator Songwriter and Perfomer. His web site offers online piano instruction for all ages.
| | How Open Learning has had a Great Affect on my LifeWritten by Elizabeth Hewet
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I have now got freedom of walking into any bookshop, and picking out a book and enjoying it. This may not sound like a big accomplishment, but it is. There really is no more fear that I am not 'good enough' to enjoy it. I understand concepts of antagonists and protagonists, plots and red herrings. I can feel feelings that these 'greats' have given us through their works, and I am no longer someone who has to settle for feeble novels that are thrown together by people that are just interested in 'selling' and getting their names on lists. The 'Greats' are called 'Greats' for a reason. Now I know why, and enjoyment I now get from them is precisely reason for which they were written. I am now confident to pick up anything and I know that I myself am able to understand and enjoy what is written for me to enjoy.

Written by Elizabeth Hewet, head of the Natural Passage Society of London. For more information on Oxford Distance Learning please see http://www.oxforddistancelearning.com/.
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