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Old 05-26-2008, 09:16 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Wow, that's a long time. It is usually better to put up a site when it's complete, but I am so impatient that I usually publish sites as soon as possible.

The only reason to publish a site as soon as possible would be to get search engines to start coming. They love frequent updates, which would inevitably occur with a site in progress. Also it gives time for getting out of Google's sandbox. If you're not familiar with it, they rank your site very low for several months (think 6 months or so), and then start coming more and ranking it higher after that. I guess the reason is that they want to make sure the site is there to stay.

Wow, four hours in your second year? I only started practicing so much in college. What exactly do you work on?

Now I find 4 hours isn't enough. I'm learning an 8-page piano concerto, a Beethoven sonata, and a Bach Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier. I also work on technique for about an hour per day. I've been trying to include about an hour for reviewing old repertoire, but have failed at that so far. I also want to start including ear training. Finally, I purchased a braille music course a few weeks ago, since I'm not very good at it yet, so want to begin reading that. Right now I just memorize everything, but I can memorize a little over a page in an hour so it's not too bad.

By the way, I wouldn't mind hearing your opinion on the tagline, too.
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