Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast

453 Episodes

1. SOPP643: My challenge is with getting enough courage to play hymns with pedals

   Published: 2/17/2021
2. SOPP638: As you know, I am not 'original' in my writing as I recognize everything I create is derivative - a fusion of everything I have ever heard or played

   Published: 2/17/2021
3. SOPP636: I still feel like I am a slow learner, but I know how to pull apart a new piece and start making it work

   Published: 2/10/2021
4. SOPP634: Once the pandemic hit hard, I decided it was time to get an organ for my house so I could practice whenever it would be convenient for me

   Published: 2/3/2021
5. SOPP641: How do you decide on a tempo for these preludes and fugues?

   Published: 2/3/2021
6. SOPP632: Is there a reason for avoiding parallel 5ths?

   Published: 1/27/2021
7. SOPP639: Do you have a secret to playing melody in the left hand and harmonies in RH?

   Published: 1/20/2021
8. SOPP637: My goal for this coming year is a 30 minute lunchtime recital on 8 October 2021

   Published: 1/11/2021
9. SOPP630: If in a church there is a need for an organist, and the only two keyboardists are a professional concert pianist and a mediocre/intermediate organist, who would be better to play the organ?

   Published: 1/11/2021
10. SOPP628: At 72 years of age my goal is to play some of Bach's organ music with musicality and appropriate style

    Published: 1/6/2021
11. SOPP635: Do you have a course that goes in order from kind of the beginning?

    Published: 12/16/2020
12. SOPP633: I printed the paper pedal board that you made available on your website!

    Published: 12/16/2020
13. SOPP626: I am very interested in developing my sight reading abilities to a high level, where I could just grab any composition and play it at tempo

    Published: 12/16/2020
14. SOPP624: Sometimes I read a treble clef like a bass clef

    Published: 12/5/2020
15. SOPP631: What is a minimum of major/minor scales, vs Hanon finger exercises, vs practicing a piece?

    Published: 12/5/2020
16. SOPP629: Thank you for all you do, all you online organists are amazing at this time and offer so much to those of us who feel safer not going to church, a real godsend indeed

    Published: 12/2/2020
17. SOPP627: I had a stroke which hit my left hand very hard. It is slow and lazy.

    Published: 12/2/2020
18. SOPP622: Thanks Vidas for the complete pedaling and instructions. It has created a great opportunity for me to focus on the pedal technique for early music beyond toes only.

    Published: 11/11/2020
19. SOPP625: I live in Spain and here there are few organ teachers

    Published: 11/4/2020
20. SOPP620: The speed of this piece and transparency of registration made me appreciate how generous the acoustic is at your church

    Published: 10/29/2020