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Podcast: MusicBasics4Keyboard
Episode: Keyboard Mastery with Beethoven's Ode to Joy
Description: How do you warm up? Do you have easy access to sheet music and a keyboard? A song in your head and heart will make finding them quickly a top priority. Even vocalists do warm-up exercises before launching into arias, popular music, jazz songs and musicals. Where there's a will, there's a way leading to mastery of your instrument. It may be owning more than one keyboard. Why did Beethoven write Ode to Joy? The “Ode to Joy” text that Ludwig Van Beethoven employed, and slightly modified, was written by the German poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, in the...