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December 14, 2009
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Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy
People
A one-day (3 1/2 hour) workshop entitled "Instant Piano for
Hopelessly Busy People" will be taught in January at Northeast
Alabama Community College. It teaches the chord approach to
playing the piano, which is desirable to many adults. It teaches
students to play by looking at the chord symbols that are in
most popular music today, instead of reading all the notes the
traditional way. This is literally a musically correct but
"shorthand" way of playing that produces instant success in
playing popular songs with both hands during this one-day
workshop, even with total beginners. A roomful of people can be
taught with just one piano in the room. Each student has a dummy
keyboard at his seat, and then takes home a 32-page book and
68-minute practice CD with which a technique can be perfected on
the student’s own piano and leisure.
The instructor is David Haynes of Ringgold, Georgia. “I make the
class a fun evening, but students often say they learn more in
these few hours than they have in five years of piano lessons,”
said Haynes. “This workshop does not conflict with a regular
piano program, because my students are generally not interested
in regular classical piano studies.”
During the past ten years Haynes has taught this workshop in 170
colleges and 17 community programs and arts centers in 20
states, all to rave reviews. This same workshop has enjoyed
phenomenal success at hundreds of college and university
extension programs in California, Hawaii, Oregon, and many other
states since 1982, and the methodology has recently been
featured nationally on public television as “Piano In a Flash.”
Haynes has a master’s of music education from Andrews University
in Michigan; a bachelor’s of music education and a bachelor’s of
German from Southern College in Tennessee; and an associate
degree in computer science from the College of DuPage in
Illinois.
This class will be taught on Thursday, January 14, from 6:00
until 9:30 p.m. in room 114 of the Health Education Building.
Cost of the class is $50, payable to the College. If you can’t
read notes, send a self-addressed stamped envelope for a free
pamphlet to Music Masters, 90 Molly Lane, Ringgold, GA 30736.
The instructor will collect $25 in class for a book and CD.
For a registration form, students may contact Pat Bridgeman in
the Office of Workforce Development, Room 148, Pendley
Administration Building; by phone at extension 254; by e-mail at
bridgemanp@nacc.edu; or
by mail at the college, to the attention of Pat Bridgeman. |
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