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Train the Trainer, with trainers Rob Riopel and Larry Gilman.

I was a starving artist when I first went to a Peak Potentials Millionaire Mind Intensive(MMI) in Montreal back in 2005.  But somehow my wife and I scraped enough money together to pay the fuel from Toronto and a cheap motel to accomodate us for 4 nights.  The entire 3 days was a production that would be hard to match, even by music industry standards.

The 3 day MMI intensive was filled with inspirational stories, personal development, and the ra-ra spirit that would light up even the most depressed.  I witnessed T Harv Eker keep people on the edge of their seats for an entire three days just by speaking.  Imagine if he had musical instrument.

I remember the exact day I made a choice to become a jazz pianist.  I saw Oscar Peterson play and I just said “I want to do that.”.  By all means a successful artist (even though I was broke), I toured 21 countries, launched 8 albums, DVD’s, etc.  I had a press kit most people would envy.  Yet, the last thing I thought was that I would have a second light bulb moment.  At the age of 40, I saw T Harv Eker in action and I turned to my wife and said “I want to learn how to do that.”  When the opportunity came to learn more about Train the trainer 1, I showed up.

I was more than broke.  Very in debt.  When the offer came to buy a 4 thousand dollar course, plus travel expenses, I more than hesitated.  It hurt to spend money I didn’t have.  We were already behind in bills, and collection companies were calling.  Still, I jumped in for the deal.

I flew to BC and was trained by Rob Riopel.  Among 300 other trainees, we went through 5 days of reprogramming.  I mean it. Re-Programming.  Some people call it brain washing, but that would be too harsh.  Train the Trainer 1 gives you a hard skill set that can change your life, but what is life-chaning is the personal development aspect of this course.  I never wanted to be a public speaker.  I just wanted to learn how to entertain the same way T Harv Eker kept people on the edge of their seats. That charisma, that persona, that power of speech, I thought, could maybe help me sell more tickets and CD’s. 

I learned everything, and applied it right away.  I came home and self-produced a concert within  3 weeks.  There were about 600+ people in the audience, and I sold over 300 CD’s.  I made my money back from the course in just one night.  They were right, learning to make an offer from the stage changed everything.. Not only did I quadrouple my back of room sales, I got standing ovation!

So I thought, why not train other artists how to improve their concert sales? I started giving trainings charging as little as $125/day.  Within a year, I had grown by speaking business offering 3-day trainings for $3997.00.  Last year, I trained more than 3000 businesses, and maybe only 2% were artists.  I learned quickly that artists don’t have money to pay for training, and they are not too much interested in money anyway.  They are still lulled into the illusion that it’s honourable to starve for your art.  I understand, I was there too once, before I was introduced to Rob Riopel.

At Train the Trainer 1, they told me that I could learn to make 25 thousand a weekend.  I said “yeah, right”. Besides, I just wanted to learn how to improve my stage presence when I gave piano concerts.  But I ended up training!

After one year and a half, not only was I making 25K per day (not per weekend), I realized I had reach a cieling..so to speak.  I couldn’t break the 25k per day.  I wanted to figure out how to increase my sales.  So it was time to go back to Train the Trainer II for more valuable information. 

Please see next post!

Paul Tobey

Arizona State Music Teachers Association Please mark your calendars and plan to come and enjoy the 2008 ASMTA Conference to be held May 29-31, 2008 at the Grace Inn in Ahwatukee Arizona.

MTNA 2009 Conference
For more information visit the www.mtna.org/Programs/Conferences/2009Conference/tabid/473/Default.aspx

There will be classes and seminars on a wide range of topics and we hope that there will prove to be something interesting for everyone. We are pleased to welcome back concert pianist, and certified trainer Paul Tobey, who gave an excellent presentation at last year’s conference. Paul will be training on “student motivation, and introductory to improvisation”.

Dr. Martha Baker-Jordan (who taught a seminar at the national conference) is coming to share her pedagogy expertise. We are looking forward to enjoying a Vocal Master Class taught by Dr. Cathy Hauan.

For full list of conference details visit the Arizona State Music Teachers Association

www.asmta.org/index.php

Seminar in Ontario at Festival and Events Ontario Conference.

Look out for your FREE One Day Intensive Internet Marketing Seminar by Canada’s own Internet Marketing Expert Paul Tobey. CEO of Pilgrim Productions Inc. Paul Tobey has trained hundreds of corporations, entrepreneurs and event organizers on how to drive traffic to their websites, and how to convert online visitors into revenue!

You too can learn, and Register Online to the Festival and Events Conference by contacting info (at) festivalsandeventsontario.ca

To Your Success,

Nancy Houle

I would like to personally invite you to my upcoming Christmas Traditions Concert in the Brantford, Ontario.

Saturday, Dec 15, Brantford, ON
Sanderson Centre Christmas Traditions
Concert Tickets only $32.50

Not only do I promise a great time at this Christmas Concert but all proceeds from my new Christmas Traditions CD goes directly to the Sunshine Dreams for Kids Foundation,

Please get your concert tickets online at http://www.paultobey.com/store/home.php?cat=263 or by calling our office at 519-865-3807.

See you at the concert,

Paul Tobey

Just announced!

Paul Tobey is teaming up again this year with Osprey Media and Sunshine Dreams for Kids for the 2nd annual Christmas Sing-a-long CD and live concert.

This year’s concert will feature Paul and his orchestra at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts in Brantford, Ontario on Saturday, December 15, 2007.

Last year’s sing-a-long CD and lyric sheets helped to raise over $42,000 for the Dream Tree, a division of Sunshine Dreams for Kids.  Proceeds go towards helping severely disable kids and terminally ill kids to realize their dream wish.

Other partner sponsors include; Executive Realty, Brantford Expositor, RBC Dominion and Zavarella Construction.

Tickets go on sale soon for the December 15th event.  The CD and sing-a-long booklet will be available through this website and other media outlets.

This year the campaign will be extended to the following Osprey News Niagara Regions; St Catharine’s Standard, Welland Tribune and Niagara Falls Review.

There are likely hundreds of books, videos and audio tapes that try to teach you how to play popular piano in 10 easy lessons. But, do they work?While I can’t be sure that they do because I’ve never tried any of them, I’m pretty positive that the information contained within each course is valuable. The question is; how do you know which one to choose?

I personally offer (coming soon) a series of 10 online piano lessons but, these are not for beginners. They are for people with experience who want to get a whole lot better real fast.

I’ve not tried putting together a series of 10 piano lessons to help beginners play popular piano but if I did, here’s how I’d do it.

Lesson 1: Learn the 12 notes on the piano and how to finger a simple major scale
Lesson 2: The basics of chord harmony and how the chords are derived from the scale
Lesson 3: How to play major and minor chords in the left hand
Lesson 4: How to construct melody using your ear and basic harmony
Lesson 5: How to rhythmically put melody and chords together using right and left hand
Lesson 6: Add a seventh to the dominant chord
Lesson 7: Perfect cadences and how to voice them
Lesson 8: In a minor mood
Lesson 9: An intro on arpeggiating chords
Lesson 10: How to practice to get the most out of the first 9 lessons.

I’m curious to get some feedback from those who might have some insight into this. My intention is to eventually put together a 10 lesson video course for beginners and I’d like to know if you have any suggestions.

There are literally a million different scenarios that I could use to teach beginners. However, I believe the most effective results will be had using accelerated learning techniques. Because, it’s not what you learn but how you learn it that will determine how far you get.

All comments are welcome and I look forward to hearing from you.

Paul

PS: If you have any comments of which “How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons” course that you’ve already taken and would like to share your thoughts on it I’d apprecicate that too! Thanks.

There are many people that search on Google or Yahoo for “how to play the piano despite years of lessons.” The fact is, many people simply don’t understand the relationship between taking lessons and actually being able to sit at the piano and play.

The biggest stumbling block to being able to just sit down and play is the way they were taught. Learning notes on a page and memorizing those notes is a highly ineffective way of learning. Do you remember high school? When you had to study for an exam, it’s likely that you crammed as much information as you could, into your head at one time, then wrote the exam. But, if you had to write that same exam 2 weeks or 2 months later, how well would you do? Probably not very well.

You see, the old way of cramming information does not work favorably for long term retention. What does? Only by learning why something is and comprehending it thoroughly through doing or practicing, can you hope to achieve lasting retention.

Therefore, when you were taught to play the piano you liekly had to cram a few thousand notes into you head over a few months period. Then, you played it at your recital, then a few months after that you completely forgot the whole thing. Right?

What’s a better way of learning? By understanding the relationship between how music is built and how you ear hears it. By learning the fundamental building blocks of harmony and hearing the difference between the chords you will begin to learn how to make music up based on the way it should sound.

It’s called improvisation. It is a skill which few people posses and even fewer can execute. But, by improvisation I mean; being able to pick up a tune just by listening to it. Then, using the rules of harmony and your ear, you will be able to sit down and play it.

Can this be learned? Yes! But it is a commitment which few people will ever undertake. But, I still encourage you to find out more about it. Download one of my free online piano lessons and you will quickly understand what it means to truly play the piano despite years of lessons.

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St. John’s Cathedral Presents AUTUMN PRAISES
An Evening of Music Entertainment And Community Mingle Featuring:

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Guest Artiste – Lilac Caña – Soprano
www.lilacsounds.com

Set in Toronto’s historic, beautiful St. John’s Cathedral – this event presents a rich musical program with the World Class Entertainer and Award Winning Pianist Paul Tobey. Paul will be performing selections from his “Road to Santiago Suite” a collection of 9 movements for piano and orchestra composed during his 850 km pilgrimage across Northern Spain on the famous Camino de Santiago. Other selections include popular piano favourites like “Music Box Dancer“, “Linus and Lucy” and many others.

“A legend in the making!” Kitchener Record

Our guest artiste will be Lilac Caña , soprano, also of international repute.

Join us after for a wine and cheese reception, book-signing, sales and mingle and unwind with like-minded individuals.

SATURDAY
October, 13th 2007, 7.30 p.m.
ST JOHN’S CATHEDRAL
186, Cowan Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M6K 2N6
Box Office: 416-532-8249

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