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Questions and Answers About My Organ Sight-Reading Master Course

5/25/2012

Some people who signed up or are intending to sign up for my new "Organ Sight-Reading Master Course" have been asking me some important questions. I thought these questions might be valid to other organists, so I am sharing them with you today.

(By the way, to everyone who has already signed up... congratulations! This is going to be an awesome time!)

1) Question: What is the duration of this course?

Answer: This course is designed to be taken over 9 months - once a week I will send you the sight-reading materials to download, save, print and practice.

2) Question: I have no possibility to practice during the following 2 months so I was wondering, if I buy this master course in one payment now, would it still work if I kept all the materials you send each week and compile it and start working on it when I have the time available?

Answer: I completely understand that some people will be unable to practice for 9 months straight. That's why there are no deadlines in my course. When you receive practice materials, save them for later date and when you are ready, you can begin to work at your own pace. In fact, if you practice for a while and something comes up and you have to stop for some time - don't worry, you can pick up where you left (with some repetition of previously learned material, of course).

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3) Question: Is the material to be covered only once (from beginning to the end of that day's section) and then not ever repeated; or is it meant to be sight-read, and then mastered before proceeding on the next day to the next section?

Answer: Playing once is enough because it is sight-reading but if you have time, playing two or tree times will be even better. Basically it also depends on how easy it will go. If you feel that the material at the beginning is easy to sight-read fluently at a slow speed, you can speed up the tempo a bit. Just try it and you'll get the feel of it. For best results Pick such a tempo which allows you to avoid mistakes.

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4) Question: How is the practice material structured?

Answer: I am using a very systematic step-by-step approach. At first, you will learn how to sight-read separate voices (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), then all of the possible combinations of 2 voices, later we move to 3-voice combinations, and finally - the entire 4-part texture. Even though you might have very limited technical abilities today, while practicing the materials of this course you will begin to feel how each new combination is just one step way and never out of reach.

5) Question: How long does it take to learn the practice materials for each day?

Answer: Your total time spent practicing sight-reading should not be more than 15 minutes a day. The real results of this course come not from long hours of practicing every day but from the regular and wise practice over the period of nine months.

6) Question: How unique is this course compared to any other sight-reading course available today?

Answer: There is no other organ sight-reading course like this on the market today because it is so systematic and is based on one of the greatest master-pieces of human mind - Bach's "The Art of the Fugue" (plus some of the best known organ works of Bach as well).

7) What if I get stuck in some difficult spot? Will you help me solve the problem?

Answer: You will receive an unlimited email access to me over your subscription time. So if you get into any problem along the way or have a question of any kind, just ask me - I'll be always here to help you out.

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Look for the special offer with 30-day-money-back-guarantee at the bottom of that page which will expire this Monday.

I'll see you on the inside!

Vidas Pinkevicius

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Announcing My Brand New Organ Sight-Reading Master Course - Special Offer Inside

5/22/2012

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When I reviewed the answers I received from many of my subscribers about what is holding them back from achieving their goals in organ playing, I realized that my list of subscribers is not made up from the advanced concert organists (although there are a few of them on my list). Instead the majority the people who read my articles are organists who struggle with the most basic tasks, like reading 3 lines of organ music, playing the organ without mistakes, playing hymns, sight-reading etc.

In fact, lack of formal training in sight-reading is one of the main reasons why organists have so much trouble learning new organ music. You see, many people think that a skill at sight-reading is developed by playing a bunch of unfamiliar music regularly and they are right about that.

Let's pretend that you are interested in learning to sight-read Bach's organ works. So you open the thick volume of his music, like vol. 1 of NBA edition with Orgelbuchlein and start playing from the beginning. What do you think will happen?

Obviously, if you are just starting the training in sight-reading, you will get stuck in the second measure of the chorale prelude "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland", BWV 599 - a very beautiful piece, by the way. Then you might think, OK, I need to persevere because I'm just starting out. Then you will resist the tempatation to give up and while struggling, finish the piece.

Then the next day you might take another chorale prelude and the same thing might happen - you will make a lot of mistakes and get stuck in some difficult spot.

Do you think that by practicing this way you will develop your skill at sight-reading? My answer is not likely.
You see the same laws are valid both in organ playing and in sight-reading.

If you make a mistake and continue to play without correcting it, then you will be developing the skill to play with mistakes which obviously is not what you want. Likewise in sight-reading, if you are playing with a lot of mistakes, this will not get you very far.

Instead, you should play the piece that you are sight-reading without mistakes right from the beginning.
How is this possible? Well, practicing tempo should be very slow, the pieces should be easy enough at first and gradually have to become more and more advanced one step at a time.

In order to help you reach your goals in organ playing, I am releasing my brand new Organ Sight-Reading Master Course - a 9-month highly systematic step-by-step coaching program which you can take advantage of today.

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Look for the special offer at the bottom of that page which will expire next Monday.

You will discover that with my system you will NOT get stuck in any measure, because I will be guiding you along the way. You can imagine that I will take you by the hand and lead to your goal one step at a time.

And so little by little over the course of the next 9 months, you will begin to notice tremendous changes in your organ playing abilities in general and sight-reading in particular. The good thing about my course is that you will not need to spend more than 15 minutes a day sight-reading the practice material I will send you.

How would that make you feel? Would you start feeling more confident in your skills? Would you like that kind of progress? Would the perfected skill in sight-reading help you reach your dream in organ playing?

If so, click on the link below and read more detailed information about this course. On that page you will also find the practice material for Week 1-Day 1 which you can print and try out to see if you like it.

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Perhaps you are thinking if this course is right for you? Go ahead and get it now, don't worry, if you are not completely satisfied, I will give you 30 days money back guarantee!

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To your success in organ playing,

Vidas Pinkevicius

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Advantages of Having a Mentor in Organ Playing

4/11/2012

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In order to achieve success in organ playing, you need to have some guidelines and someone who can help you to reach your goals. This is why having a good mentor, instructor, or a coach is vitally important if you are serious about playing organ. In this article, I will describe the ways how a mentor can help you advance in organ playing.

A good mentor is the one who has sufficient expertise, solid training, education, and experience in teaching others to play the organ. He or she would help you in many ways in becoming a better organist.

Typically in an organ lesson, you would just need to bring your clean organ score and a notebook. Your instructor would help you to write in all the fingering, pedaling, registration, articulation - all of these details. In addition, your instructor may even teach you how to mark all these details. He or she would write the step-by-step plan for your daily practice in order to master an organ piece.

All you need to do then is to follow your instructor's directions and you will inevitably succeed. A true instructor knows how to master the piece you will be playing because he or she has done so himself or herself many times. In fact, a real expert may have mastered a thousand or more pieces like the one you will be learning.

However, personal coaching is valid when you trust your instructor and when he or she is really good, of course. But of course one thing is even more important here - you have to have the inner motivation to succeed.

The thing is that your mentor cannot do the work for you. He or she cannot learn and master the piece for you. You have to do the work. Your instructor can show you the way to success but you have to take that road and travel yourself.

So you have to trust your instructor and try to do your best. The more precisely you follow your instructors directions, the faster will you progress in organ playing. If your instructor says to practice for 30 minutes every day and you only play your piece for 20 minutes 3 times a week, you know it won't work.

If your instructor tells you to practice every fragment of your piece until you get it right 3 times in a row and you only play your piece 3 times from the beginning until the end without correcting your mistakes, you know that your advancement will be much slower.

Sometimes there are situations when we feel lost, when we loose our focus and inner motivation to succeed and persevere. That's where our instructor or a mentor comes in. A good mentor will push you a little further each time and will help you to find your motivation.

As you can see, overcoming the obstacles in organ playing is not an easy task. However, all the difficulties may be overcome with the right way of practicing and trusting your mentor. The reward for your hard work will be that you can truly enjoy any piece you are learning and progress further in your journey towards perfecting your organ playing.

By the way, do you want to learn to play the King of Instruments - the pipe organ? If so, download my FREE video guide: "How to Master Any Organ Composition" in which I will show you my EXACT steps, techniques, and methods that I use to practice, learn and master any piece of organ music.

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