On Touch, Articulation and Phrasing
This week my third video demonstration on touch went live on Pianist Magazine's YouTube channel. When I was given the original commission for three articles for the magazine, I knew I…
Practising The Piano eBook Series – A New Venture
I am delighted to be able to bring you news of a venture I’m launching this week, a series of interactive ebooks in several volumes based on Practising The Piano.…
Firm Foundations
A late, esteemed colleague who had amazing sight reading skills once told me he never read through more than once a new piece he was about to learn. It was…
Fun With Scales?
I was planning to write a piece on the uses and abuses of the metronome in my new mini series "The Middle Path", but a major publication deadline this week…
The Middle Path – Rhythm Practice
I sometimes get messages asking why I don't write more about practising in dotted rhythms, and why I hardly speak of the metronome. This made me realise that both these…