Some jigsaws are too easy, and some just too big and time-consuming. This is what it’s like when you are learning a piano piece.
Being a good pianist does not mean that you have general music skills that last for life. Do you identify more with Student A or Student B?
My most favourite, comfortable, ‘happy place’ and most exciting thing in the whole world to do, is to make a singalong happen.
Off we will go on our Spanish Soundscape adventure — it’s about featuring pieces that explore sounds that are quintessentially Spanish, and discovering the music theory behind what makes them sound this way
There are MANY things we teach by rote when we give a piano lesson: technique, expression, posture. Does Rote Teaching Work? Read on and find out.
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.
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.
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.