About Me & Why I Created:
make-music-better.com

Here is some info about me: I'm George Hirsch, the founder of this site, I've been a working musician and performer [Vocals, Keys, Guitars, Banjo] for a good number of years, and have also been involved in coaching, training and generally researching ways to, well, "make music better", just like the title of my site states.

I began playing piano by experimenting on my mom's upright in the basement when I was about 6 years old. I didn't know what I was doing, but I DID know that I wanted to play. My mom was a good pianist and could play just about any chart you could throw in front of her, but she did NOT "play by ear", but I did, which impressed her.

My dad played violin and ukelele. The family would gather for musical evenings where we would all play and sing. From my family, I learned to appreciate the joy and power of music.

Eventually, I picked up the guitar, also continuing with the piano, picking up tricks and knowledge from watching others and from any books which "worked" for me. I began to realize that there WAS a great deal already known about these things, but that it wasn't necessarily easy for it to be "transferred" from the source to the recipient. So along the way, I kept my eyes open for texts, videos and methods that MADE SENSE and that YOU COULD UNDERSTAND and which DELIVERED THE RESULT.

And I DID discover some very useful tools and teaching methods.

These pages are my findings. - My interests and goal in creating this site can be summed up in this phrase: "I KNOW there's a better, more efficient way to accomplish this musical objective, and I'm going to find it. And if I can't find a better way from ANOTHER, I'll devise it MYSELF."

I've discovered, as you may have suspected, that a significant number of problems in learning music do NOT come FROM THE STUDENT but, they CAN and too often DO come from:

THE TEACHER, or

THE METHOD OF TEACHING, or

THE MATERIAL ITSELF AND IT'S METHOD OF ORGANIZATION, or

HOW IT DEFINES ITS OWN TERMS, OR FAILS TO DO SO, or

THE PRESENTATION OF SUCCESSIVE LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY, and so on.

So on this site you'll find the results of my search - methods, regimens, exercises, even ideas about creativity and the philosophy of music, from reliable sources.

Now I'm not saying that just because it's worked for me, it automatically works for everybody. But I will say this: There are a LOT of - to put it bluntly - bogus music education methods and useless data going around. And those just may well be the source of the problem, not yourself, or your so-called "lack of talent" :(

So before you give up and say: "I can't get it", why not TRY some of the things I recommend and see what result you get? From what I've seen, there's a very high chance of them working for you. And I truly think that you'll be quite pleased when you see how your progress accelerates, no matter your instrument or music specialty.

Good practicing, good teaching, good playing!

~ George Hirsch, NYC, May 2011

THIS "SECRET METHOD" TO INSTRUMENTAL MASTERY HAS BEEN "HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT" FOR OVER A CENTURY!

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In the early 1900's, a musician discovered a hand exercise method to increase dexterity and power at previously unheard of rates.

This method has been published in various forms over the decades. But was then apparently lost forever.

But now, it has been REDISCOVERED!  And YOU can enjoy the amazing benefits of it:

Thousands of musicians across the world are now using this system, and enjoying previously unheard-of progress in strength and dexterity on their instruments.

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