Dean Balan

Hi, I’m Dean! I’m a Filipino-American musician, writer, and entrepreneur from Las Vegas. These days, I’m on the road full time with the North American tour of Disney’s THE LION KING. Find me @deanbmusic. Welcome to my blog! It turns out... …there’s a difference between “hooey,” “hoopla,” and “hoohah.” … Or so my wife tells me. JULY 21, 2023 Orchestral Score-Reading for Pianists Part of a conductor’s training is learning how to read a score — the ups, downs, and arounds of the musical dynamics, expressions, staves, and clefs. You must know your C clefs from your G clef, your F clef from your baritone. (Just kidding! The last two are the same.) And, of course, you must know which instruments are written in transposition, and by how much. Here, then, are the best books for pianist