Hobbies: The Most Helpful Piano Lesson

The Most Helpful Piano Lesson

Written by Emily Sigers

The most helpful piano lesson I ever had was given when my teacher called a number of her pupils together in a class and actually showed us how to practice. Not told us how, but actually showed us how. I had had other teachers deliver long lectures on how to do it but this was repparttar

first time one ever demonstrated her method to me with her sleeves rolled up - and nothing up her sleeve!

In this lesson repparttar 116007 teacher memorized a page and a half of a piece which was entirely new to her and worked it out as she would have done by herself.

She read it over once to see what it was all about and, without losing any time, she went right to work on repparttar 116008 first phrase and memorized as she went along. I was surprised at repparttar 116009 great number of times she repeated over and over again so small a thing as half a measure. When she had gained a working knowledge of repparttar 116010 whole phrase she went over and over that, trying it in many different ways as to touch, pedalling, and fingering, and upon deciding which was best, she then practiced repparttar 116011 approved version numberless times until she really knew it in her mind.

I had thought that when musicians began to approach perfection they discarded childish things like counting aloud. It was a surprise, then, to hear this teacher rigidly counting each measure. I concluded right then and there that she really had nothing up her sleeve - that there was no magic about it, nothing but hard work and a never-say-die spirit. My great regret is that repparttar 116012 first teacher I had did not do something of that kind for me. It would either have made me quit then and there or it would have saved repparttar 116013 years of useless dreaming of royal roads to success and countless hours of poorly directed and misapplied practicing.

Photography: The Basics

Written by Colin Hartness

Photography comes from repparttar

Greek words meaning “light writing” and first became known back in 1839 by Sir John Herschel. For many years prior to this, people had discovered ways of causing certain chemicals to change color when exposed to light but they did not discover ways of getting repparttar 116006

images to remain permanent until later on.

Now photography is a big part of our culture, something that everyone recognizes. Most everyone has family photos lying around their house, many people take these photos on a regular basis, preserving precious memories for years to come. Even if you don’t have your own camera, you have seen photos in magazines, used on billboards and advertisements and more.

What is Photography?

Photography is defined as “The art or process of producing images by repparttar 116007 action of light on surfaces sensitized by chemical processes.” (www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/ArtsEd/vglossar.htm)

The average person never has to deal with this technical definition because they take their photographs to a lab to be processed. They simply take pictures with their camera and then drop them off somewhere to be developed. They get their prints back on nice glossy paper that they can then keep to see repparttar 116008 images at any time they wish.

There are also instant develop photographs, commonly known as repparttar 116009 Polaroid, in which repparttar 116010 paper itself contains repparttar 116011 chemicals needed and when repparttar 116012 paper sits for a few seconds exposed to light repparttar 116013 photo will develop. Many people enjoy these because you could view your photo almost instantly but over repparttar 116014 years, repparttar 116015 quality has improved with other films and many people migrated to other types of cameras.

The common types of film are 35mm and 110. These film rolls come in different speeds that are meant for different lighting and situations and are loaded into your camera, used until repparttar 116016 end of repparttar 116017 roll and then sent for developing.

What Are repparttar 116018 Different Types of Photography?

Photography is more than just a fabric of repparttar 116019 average family’s memories, it has become an art form taking on many different types. Some types of photography are artistic photography, photojournalism, documentary photography, portrait photography, event photography, family photography, nature photography, advertising photography, underwater photography, satellite photography and more. Each of these types has many different directions in which they can go.

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