Like many teachers around the world I have run the 40 piece challenge. This year I came up with a bit of a twist. Read more about it here.
Find out how this piano teacher found new ways to getting her students spot the difference with their ears instead of their eyes.
See why mental preparation is just as important as physical practice, and how training won’t get you all the way without focus and determination.
Learn how this new-found excitement caused me to say yes to a recital, and the given music was Cesar Franck’s Violin Sonata in A major.
Check out what are the discoveries that I made about the way I approach practice versus the way I assume my students will approach practice.
Have a closer look at Avi Cytrynowski’s insights about performing, and the truth about what she is preaching and what she is practising .
Learn why pieces improve with performance more quickly than they do with practice only and why this needs to happen not only once but thrice.
If you’ve ever had the privilege of watching a good sight reader play with ease from a tricky score, it is awe-inspiring. This blog post is about five general things that good sight-readers do. All good sight readers do these things: scan, edit, guess, predict and fudge.
Find out why our special guest -Mark Walton loves practising and what is his practising system that he still use today and why he thinks it is brilliant.
Performance-readiness is like peak physical fitness: it must be maintained, or it disappears. That’s because rehearsing and performing, in and of itself, does not develop any of the skills required for retaining long-term piano skills. Here are three ways of playing that are essential for keeping piano skills for life.