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		<title>How To Memorize a Song in No Time Flat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several strategies for aiding the memorization process.  While many singers just sing through their songs over and over again until they know them, and this certainly gets results, it is not the most efficient way. I suggest you not even think about memorization until you have mastered the musical elements of the piece, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=201&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save Time by Figuring out &#8220;Who You Are&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;I have to go to class, work, take care of the kids, clean the house, and find time to sleep don&#8217;t have TIME to figure out &#8216;who I am&#8217;&#8221; One of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself is work on your identity. Dr. Joyce Brothers says that &#8220;you cannot consistently behave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=198&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Many Professional Musicians Discount Solfege</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All those weird words just get in the way, just look at the notes and sing them!&#8221; It is very common in discussions of ear training and music teaching to find professional musicians who feel that all forms of sight singing training relying a syllables (solfege, numbers, letter names, etc.) is a waste of time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=193&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Dedicated Always Win Out In The End</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m just not as talented as he is&#8221; In the first weeks, months, and even years of competition between peers in any field, the advantage goes to the &#8216;naturally gifted&#8217;, the &#8216;talented&#8217;, the &#8216;gifted&#8217;. We&#8217;ve all seen it: the highschooler who gets every lead in the musicals, the young salesman that consistently outsells his coworkers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=187&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Have More Energy Than a Nuclear Reactor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty introverted and low-key, but once I get to know you, I start to come out of my shell&#8221; This line always gets a laugh. I use it in every interview, and often use it when meeting new people, it&#8217;s a crowd pleaser. Why? Because I&#8217;m the highest energy person you will ever meet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=170&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of &#8220;Sleeping On It&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Let me sleep on it&#8221; It&#8217;s the bane of salesmen everywhere, because they realize it is a thinly veiled replacement for &#8220;I don&#8217;t want your services but I don&#8217;t want to make you feel bad by saying no&#8221; Let&#8217;s look at it in a new context though. Brain research at major universities shows that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=164&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Music in You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;d love to sing, play the piano, write a novel, paint, dance but it&#8217;s too late to learn&#8221; There was a time when the average human lifespan was 35, in those days, your late 20s may have been too late to start something so ambitious and be truly great. but if you are under 40, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=161&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s a Numbers Game&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jobs. Dating. Auditions. Anything you want in life. Do you want it bad enough to keep playing until you&#8217;ve played enough to win? We all win the game we play, it&#8217;s only a matter of time. The only way to lose is to stop playing the game. Filed under: Workshop Journals<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=157&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Joy Is The Most Important Goal Of a Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher G Keene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joy? How frivolous, students don&#8217;t need &#8216;joy&#8217;, well, maybe they do, but they need knowledge, skills, expertise! I agree completely with the second half of the previous statement.  I have long felt students in most fields of study these days show a surprising lack of mastery of the basic fundamental skills and knowledge in their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=154&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Are Awful Until You&#8217;re Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But I&#8217;m awful!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll never get it right!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m the worst!&#8221; &#8220;I Suck!&#8221; How often have we heard and said things like this about something we wish we could just be PERFECT at the first time? Why doesn&#8217;t life work like that?  I decide I want to be a football player, or a beat boxer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophergkeene.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8347073&amp;post=132&amp;subd=christophergkeene&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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