Author: Dmitri Timoshenko
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The best reward
What can be a better reward for a teacher, than his little student getting 1st place at school contest for her guitar performance?
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Сriterion
Music is created not for critics and experts, but for audience. If the audience likes a piece – then it is success.
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A talent
When we see a kid performing well, we tend to say that s/he is talented. We say that and it becomes a givenness for us. But behind a good performance stands much more, that a simple talent. Or notion “talent” is larger than most of the people used to think. Working with many students of different age, preparing…
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A teacher
I believe that being a good teacher is to be conscious about what you do. Thanks to my students, when I teach or practice, I constantly think: – what I do – how I do – why I do They ask me many questions. Sometimes it takes me couple of days to answer, because some…
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Images in music. The Tonic and the Dominant.
In the beginning of my guitar and music studies when I asked my teachers how should I show the difference between the Tonic and the Dominant, I was talk to play the first one softer and the latter louder (The Tonic is the 1st degree and the Dominant is the 5th degree in the system…
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Into the depths of jazz
Last weekend The Jack Duo had a performance in Pärnu, Estonia. There, we also visited an Estonian classical/jazz guitarist Marek Talts, who gave us useful tips, so that we can continue discovering the world of jazz. New tricks and skills to learn and new knowledge to digest. Plan, divide into small piece, move step by…
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My new piece recorded
I tried to make my Farewell simple, light and sweet. In the beginning, there is a moment of emptiness. Then, little by little belief in better comes. But ends with the unwillingness to forget the time together. Played by my friend and me – The Jack Duo. Sweet melancholic Autumn to everybody!