But I Can Play It Perfectly Well At Home!
Of all the comments students make in lessons, the assertion that they can play it perfectly well at home has to be among the most common. I would guess that…
Getting Students to Use the Practice Tools: Separately
The brain is made up of two hemispheres, right and left. The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and vice versa. There is a bridge between the…
Getting Students to Use the Practice Tools (2)
Last week, I discussed how we might encourage our younger students to use the practice tools by incorporating elements of practice into the lesson, so that each week we devote…
Getting Students To Use The Practice Tools
Following the launch of my ebook series last week, I had an email from a reader who tells me she is enjoying reading about the practice tools. She is excited…
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…