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Broken Link Fixed!
Having fixed our Customer Advisory Board entry link you can now submit your name for consideration to help us improve our product while receiving a FREE one -years' subscription!
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2nwqgymg3eooso5/start
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2nwqgymg3eooso5/start
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Exciting News!
BSharpTricks.com is now forming a Customer Advisory Board and YOU can be the next board member!
Our Customer Advisory Board will help us develop and tune our website by giving us advise in completing online surveys from time to time. The board members will serve for one year term in which they will receive....
Our Customer Advisory Board will help us develop and tune our website by giving us advise in completing online surveys from time to time. The board members will serve for one year term in which they will receive....
A ONE YEAR - ALL ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION - for.... FREE.... NADA.... ZIP....!
The Advisory Board will consist of members from all levels of experience and training - from brand-new beginners (Newbies) to advanced level musicians and music directors (SeasonedBies?). So EVERYONE should apply!
To take a short questionnaire and submit your entry go to:
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2nwqgymg3eooso5/start
Please enter only once (duplicate names will be deleted) - the entry process will end February 28, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
About the Host and Lead Instructor...
The Host and Lead Instructor @ BSharpTricks.com is Jeremiah Sibley. Here is what Jeremiah says about himself.
Somebody handed me a copy of Harry Connick Jr’s album “20” when I was twelve years old and the desire to be able to play such swinging, solo piano immediately became a life passion. Certainly I could not foresee just how much a part of my life hearing that one good jazz recording would change. After spending much of my teenage years taking lessons and practicing the piano, I entered college with two goals: to be able to play well enough to play in church and to finally begin to work toward playing jazz piano competently. When I graduated from Jackson College of Ministry with a degree in music, I had established the foundation to begin to accomplish those goals.
What followed seems now a whirlwind: over four years as the music minister of FUPC of San Antonio and since April of 2001 I have served as both the pastor and music minister of Medina Valley Christian Worship of Castroville, Texas. Intermingled within those years are numerous sessions of instruction in music conferences and countless hours both in practicing and learning jazz piano and in teaching private lessons. There are few things that I enjoy more in life than seeing someone learn something that they had beforehand thought impossible or overly difficult.
While there is only one Harry Connick Jr and he is inimitable, I have absorbed many of his techniques and chord voicings into my playing. Other jazz greats such as Gene Harris and Thelonius Monk have impacted me also. Years of playing and practicing music for a church setting has enabled me to adapt those jazz sounds and ideas into practical playing situations as well as to pull from black gospel, southern gospel, and the contemporary Gospel worlds.
The teaching system that I have developed is a mixture of how I was taught intermingled with innovations that I created to try to be more effective in developing my students to playing competently in church. It works – as evident by the many former students that now play every week in churches around the country. As I realized that God had gifted me with the ability to teach others what I had learned, a desire was born to take what I was doing weekly in private lessons and make it available on a larger scale. BSharpTricks.com is the fruition of those dreams.
The site will provide web-based piano instruction at a very affordable monthly fee and will be essentially two types of lessons at one place. The first group of lessons will be the sequential lessons that take a beginner from knowing nothing into more advanced territory step by step. The other side of the site will be genre or chord studies for the more advanced player. Ideally, someone new to playing piano could be able to go through the first course and then move on to the more advanced stuff, whereas a more advanced player could sample the areas of the basics that they feel that they need a refresher or some help, and then choose the more advanced stuff as they desire. For example, they might go to a series of lessons on the G minor blues scale or on how to use altered chords in practical playing situations. No matter the skill level, BSharpTricks.com will provide complete access to all of the lessons for just one low, monthly fee. You can take lessons when you have the time to do them and all from the comfort of your home. And when you are ready for more advanced material, it will be waiting for you.
Come join us at BSharpTricks.com for all of this and even a few planned surprises along the way! I believe that you’ve just found the answer to your musical dilemmas.
Jeremiah Sibley
Somebody handed me a copy of Harry Connick Jr’s album “20” when I was twelve years old and the desire to be able to play such swinging, solo piano immediately became a life passion. Certainly I could not foresee just how much a part of my life hearing that one good jazz recording would change. After spending much of my teenage years taking lessons and practicing the piano, I entered college with two goals: to be able to play well enough to play in church and to finally begin to work toward playing jazz piano competently. When I graduated from Jackson College of Ministry with a degree in music, I had established the foundation to begin to accomplish those goals.
What followed seems now a whirlwind: over four years as the music minister of FUPC of San Antonio and since April of 2001 I have served as both the pastor and music minister of Medina Valley Christian Worship of Castroville, Texas. Intermingled within those years are numerous sessions of instruction in music conferences and countless hours both in practicing and learning jazz piano and in teaching private lessons. There are few things that I enjoy more in life than seeing someone learn something that they had beforehand thought impossible or overly difficult.
While there is only one Harry Connick Jr and he is inimitable, I have absorbed many of his techniques and chord voicings into my playing. Other jazz greats such as Gene Harris and Thelonius Monk have impacted me also. Years of playing and practicing music for a church setting has enabled me to adapt those jazz sounds and ideas into practical playing situations as well as to pull from black gospel, southern gospel, and the contemporary Gospel worlds.
The teaching system that I have developed is a mixture of how I was taught intermingled with innovations that I created to try to be more effective in developing my students to playing competently in church. It works – as evident by the many former students that now play every week in churches around the country. As I realized that God had gifted me with the ability to teach others what I had learned, a desire was born to take what I was doing weekly in private lessons and make it available on a larger scale. BSharpTricks.com is the fruition of those dreams.
The site will provide web-based piano instruction at a very affordable monthly fee and will be essentially two types of lessons at one place. The first group of lessons will be the sequential lessons that take a beginner from knowing nothing into more advanced territory step by step. The other side of the site will be genre or chord studies for the more advanced player. Ideally, someone new to playing piano could be able to go through the first course and then move on to the more advanced stuff, whereas a more advanced player could sample the areas of the basics that they feel that they need a refresher or some help, and then choose the more advanced stuff as they desire. For example, they might go to a series of lessons on the G minor blues scale or on how to use altered chords in practical playing situations. No matter the skill level, BSharpTricks.com will provide complete access to all of the lessons for just one low, monthly fee. You can take lessons when you have the time to do them and all from the comfort of your home. And when you are ready for more advanced material, it will be waiting for you.
Come join us at BSharpTricks.com for all of this and even a few planned surprises along the way! I believe that you’ve just found the answer to your musical dilemmas.
Jeremiah Sibley
Coming Soon
Coming Soon... a new and exciting comprehensive piano teaching website! The site will be geared for all levels of keyboard players and range in style from Church (Contemporary & Gospel) to Blues & Jazz.
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