Pumping Iron

Years ago I read Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”. In it, he tells a story which illustrates his mindset before competitions. Actually, I think the entire book is about this. Mindset. Competitions. Winning. Being the best. I’ll give you the story in a bit, but first let’s put this into …

Little and Often! But how little? And how often?

Humoresque has decided to tackle the subject of music practice. Yes, I know. Again! It has long been a mantra of music teachers everywhere that it’s better to practise “little and often”, rather than one enormous splurge on the morning of your music lesson. In principle – I can see why people say this. In …

The Donkey – Results!

Well done everybody! I loved hearing all your performances of The Donkey, and there really was a huge variety. In Category 4 there were clip-clopping donkeys, donkeys with strange and exotic chords and donkeys who picked up speed as they neared their destination! Category 3 was even more inventive, with wonderful added harmonies. In Category …

Extra Humoresque – Donkey Update!

I’m looking forward to hearing everyone play The Donkey next week. Yes, the competition begins on Monday 8th December and runs until Saturday 13th December. There’s a first and second prize for each Category winner, and Humoresque will announce the winners on Monday 15th December. If you’ve won a prize, you’ll get it during your …

Is there anybody out there?

It has recently come to Humoresque’s attention that not many of you read these posts. Humoresque began on 6th April this year. The intention was to provide a weekly term-time blog post which would be helpful (hopefully!), informative (mostly!), entertaining (a humoresque!) and light-hearted (i.e. short!) All Humoresque’s posts are on my website, and you’re …