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	<title>Philip Hii - guitarist</title>
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	<description>The Art of Virtuosity</description>
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		<title>The key to effortlessness</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/05/the-key-to-effortlessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’re two ways to achieve effortlessness in life. The first is to do only the bare essentials. Get rid of all the unnecessary stuff and your life will get a lot less effortful. The second is to get someone else to do it for you. When I suggested this second option in one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momentum</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/05/momentum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been playing the tremolo a lot lately – neglected it these past ten years. (In fact, come to think of it, I have neglected the guitar these past ten years.) But I’ve been playing the tremolo a lot lately and it’s been an interesting exercise, revisiting it and observing it anew, from different angles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sweet spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To expand on the previous post, a good way to describe the one path is ‘the sweet spot.’ You know what the sweet spot is. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, it is “The place on a bat, club, racket, or paddle, where it is most effective to hit a ball.” Wikipedia has a more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only one path</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/04/only-one-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had a rather cordial exchange with one of the many online experts on guitar playing, and at the end of our discussion, he said something to the effect that ‘the master knows there’s only one path to mastery.&#8217; To which I responded with ‘many roads lead to Rome.’ Actually, he’s right in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/04/sensitivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I started thinking about it was when I was teaching at North Texas State University, now UNT. I had a student named Anthony P. Anthony was just a freshman, and not even a music major. He had come from Houston and he had the most incredible gift. Everything he played, he made the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AOV update</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/04/aov-update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another update to the AOV. Essentially the same as previous versions except that the rhythm chapter has been completely reworked. Yes, still struggling on this one. Latest version: April 13, 2012 &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>More thoughts on learning and skype lessons</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/04/more-thoughts-on-learning-and-skype-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading this book on landscape painting by Ted Gould* and I came across his insightful remark – that technique can’t be taught. This is a direct affirmation of my own long-held belief – that you can’t teach technique to someone, you can only provide them with directions on how they can go about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Gilbert 1922-2012</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/03/john-gilbert-1922-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite activities during summer is to drive up the Santa Cruz Mountains to visit one of my favorite persons, John Gilbert. I’ve forgotten how I got to know John. My first recollection of meeting him was having him fine-tune my Savino guitar for my Chopin recording.  I was having trouble with its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AOV update</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/03/aov-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was young, I used to imagine myself to be a pretty good writer. I was editor of my high school paper, editor of a student newspaper in NZ, and column editor for the American String Teacher, and I wrote a few articles that were published by Soundboard and the American String Teacher, among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A dinner conversation</title>
		<link>http://philiphii.com/2012/01/a-dinner-conversation/</link>
		<comments>http://philiphii.com/2012/01/a-dinner-conversation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Hii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having dinner with a musician friend the other day, and the conversation turned to the subject of when is an optimal age to start playing the guitar. The friend said something to the effect that anyone who starts playing the guitar after age 14 should really give up as it’s already too late [...]]]></description>
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