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...then inevitably you will have to deal with frustration and the list of valid excuses will get longer by the day.
There are too many things to learn; I'm too old; I'm never going to play/improvise/compose like (fill in the blank); I'm not talented enough; I don't have a good teacher; I don't know where to start; It turns out that if you focus on what you already know, it's all downhill from there. I'm really good at playing this harmonic minor scale; the first/last line of this piece comes very naturally to me; I can play the left hand part fluently already; This hymn gives me no trouble; I completely nailed the pedal part of this piece; I can play this chord in any key I want; Look deeply at your skills, pick the best one and build on it. |
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Drs. Vidas Pinkevicius and Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene Organists of Vilnius University , creators of Secrets of Organ Playing. 
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