Q-Spots Series: Bach Invention in D Minor
For my first piece in the Q-Spots Series I have chosen Bach's Two-Part Invention in D minor, and identified two Q-spots that very often cause players to falter (click here…
New Series on the Quarantine Spots
We’ve probably all come up against difficulties in a piece where our fingers seem to baulk - we hesitate, stumble, or approximate the notes with a mañana attitude to fixing…
New Piano Pedagogy Course at Morley College
I am delighted to announce that the PTC (Piano Teachers’ Course) UK is going to teach a new Piano Pedagogy course at Morley College in London. This course is specifically…
Online Academy – What’s Coming?
The Online Academy will soon be three years old and we have a number of exciting developments in the pipeline to celebrate this milestone. Following from our previous post which…
A Guide to Our Content & Resources
Since its launch just under three years ago, the Online Academy has grown significantly and now contains over three hundred articles, hundreds of videos and thousands of musical examples on…
Interpretation: Can it be Taught?
I am delighted to publish this guest post from Katrina Fox, a graduate of The Piano Teachers' Course UK whom it was my pleasure to work with in my tutor…
Introducing Our YouTube Video Channel
Over the past few months we’ve been making a number of our videos from the Online Academy available on our YouTube channel. This channel now features a growing collection of…
Write it Out!
I first published this post way back in June, 2013, and it has been buried in the archives ever since. I decided to update it and republish after the subject…
A Useful Research Tool
I was working with someone on the Appassionata Sonata of Beethoven this week. The rhythmic organisation of the trill in bar 3 was not clear to me, so I asked…
On Tempo Relationships
I was working with someone on Schubert’s B flat Impromptu last week, a set of variations on the so-called “Rosamunde” theme. Variation form always poses a tempo challenge to the…