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To all the Filipino partners out there, you know what's good. 😏

Double toasted egg white bites + Banana Sauce = Don't knock it till you try it goodness.

@starbuckspartners @starbucksph

#Starbucks #ToBeAPinoyPartner #ToBeAPartner #BananaKetchup

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When you realize your worth, you take back your power to live your best life, to be the best version of you. Never settle for less: everyone deserves happiness.

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The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

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When you recognize the ones who continually support and uplift you, you've found yourself a treasure trove of motivation, a fountain of inspiration.

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Do you know any tips or exercises for learning to read notes? I’m doing my very best but it just won’t stick in my head!

Practice. Practice practice practice practice practice.

Use music theory apps like Teoria or something else from my resources list.

But really: practice. It takes a While to learn - it's basically a new language. You're doing great!

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Hello! May I ask who your favorite contemporary (so currently living probably) classical musicians are? Either performer or composer recommendations would be appreciated, thanks so much!

Sure thing! So musician-wise I only pay attention to pianists b/c it’s my favorite instrument, and my favorites include people who have been around forever and people who are relatively new. 

“Legends”:

Martha Argerich

Krystian Zimerman

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Evgeny Kissin

Mitsuko Uchida

Younger Favorites:

Daniil Trifonov

Alice Sara Ott

Jean Rondeau

Mahan Esfahani

Steven Osborne

Benjamin Grovsner

Yuja Wang

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How to keep going when you’ve lost your motivation?

Motivation is never ever ever a long-term strategy. Discipline is what is needed for anything that takes longer than about, oh, twenty minutes. Discipline is the process of saying, “Yeah, this sucks, I really do not wanna do this, oh well here I go anyway because I know I need to.” 

Discipline works like a muscle - it’s something you build up. Some days, especially if you aren’t used to using a lot of discipline, you can straight up run out of it, and you’ll eat a whole sleeve of Girl Scout cookies after resisting other treats all day, or binge-watch Netflix instead of working on the papers due in two days. It happens. Don’t beat yourself up for it - just get back in the saddle and keep going. 

Just because earlier you didn’t do what you wanted to do doesn’t make the day a wash - if you spilled a little coffee on your desk, you wouldn’t just tip your mug over and dump it on the floor would you? No, you’d clean up the spill and enjoy the rest of your unspilled coffee. The same thing goes for your day. A slip in discipline is the spilled coffe: you acknowledge that you didn’t do the thing, you stop it, and you get back to whatever you’re attempting.

You’ve got this!

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“if I could have coffee with grieg I would ask him ‘dude, what’s your problem?’”

— my new orchestra teacher referring to that one part in the holberg suite where grieg notated everything two beats off so that beat 1 is actually beat 3 (via classical-crap)

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“sometimes you must suffer for your music”

*cries as i play several scales and warmups*

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When I fell in love with the city and its food #NewYork #NYC

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Missing school like crazy. #Txst #SanMarcos #HomeAwayFromHome (at Texas State University)

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When you’re dealing with storms, you have to stay focus and calm in order to surpass it. Breathing will help you to think and see clearly.

(via baekebyan)

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you would not believe your eyes

if i actually practiced, guys

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You were so important to me, that I couldn’t count all the things I am willing to do, just to make you happy.

ma.c.a // Your smile is precious to me (via vomitingwords)

#TheGirlIImvestedTooMuchIn #Regrets

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Étude Op. 25, No. 9 in G-flat major, known as the Butterfly étude, is an étude by Frédéric Chopin. The title Butterfly was not given by Chopin (as is true for all Chopin pieces with such titles); however Arthur Friedheim said, “while some titles were superfluous, this one is inadequate.

Incipit of the Étude Op. 25 No. 9

The composition is a study of staccato – marcato alternations, marked throughout the piece. It is the shortest of Chopin’s études; it lasts under a minute played at the indicated tempo. The melody is created by playing a detached octave, then two non-detached octaves. This makes a four-note group, the structure of which is used during the whole piece to convey the melody. This structure of rapid octaves can pose a challenge to the less technically experienced. Another difficulty is in the constant switching of solid octaves to detached octaves. It is much more straightforward to simply play one or the other for the whole piece.

Performer:György Cziffra.This may not sound like butterflies, but Chopin did not name any of his works,  he did not like to name , so other masters named them.Maybe he did not write this for butterflies.

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Friend: Do you have any music recommendations?

Me: Shostakovich