Kate Moody

The Creative Method TM Great article about techniques for skill development - also known as practicing! As a composer, when I began teaching I naturally incorporated teaching scales and chords, and then used the scales and chords to create music with my students. This approach, combined with standard note-reading and performance, offers students the full benefits of a traditional music education plus a thorough and extensive immersion in the language of music through creating music and performing their creations - on their own with guidance from their teacher, as well as in groups.

Open to guidance and inspiration with this 7 1/2 minute track - a four minute spoken visualization leads to "Hoku Pa'a" (Hawaiian for "North Star") on piano: $1.01. Not an instant download : A human being will send you an email with the mp3. Original music and one cover, solo piano and piano with flute, saxophone, strings and percussion.

I wrote the following words as I began taking notes for this paper: My turning from an understanding of God as an outer agent which directs life events and circumstances, to an understanding of a universal energy which is all of life-all molecules, every cell, and all the space inside and around these elements of matter, which can be felt and known as love-began with my reading of Barbara Ann Brennan's book, Hands of Light. Later that day I unearthed Brennan's book and read her opening passage: Love is the face and body of the Universe.

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Do you remember when smoking cigarettes was accepted and allowed? In the work place, airplanes, restaurants -? Seems unimaginable today. Slowly the public learned of the dangers of smoking - of directly inhaling, and of second-hand smoke. And then it was revealed that tobacco companies had known of the dangers for a good long.