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The Importance of Teaching Healthy Technique

The Importance of Teaching Healthy Technique

By Informance, 2021-11-04
Posted in: Teaching, Technique

In this week’s blog post, Penelope discusses the importance of teaching healthy technique and shares a few tips and suggestions for doing so!

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The Importance of Teaching Healthy Technique
Teaching Healthy, Expressive Technique Preview

Teaching Healthy, Expressive Technique Preview

By Informance, 2021-08-12
Posted in: General, Teaching, Technique

This week we bring you a preview of a new online course on teaching healthy, expressive piano technique based on Penelope Roskell’s award-winning book The Complete Pianist.

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Tags: healthy playinghealthy practisingPenelope Roskellteachingtechnique
Teaching Healthy, Expressive Technique Preview
Teaching Bach’s Musette in D without the Score

Teaching Bach’s Musette in D without the Score

By Graham Fitch, 2020-04-02
Posted in: Teaching

At the start of my teaching career I taught a number of child beginners who I soon discovered were capable of playing more difficult and interesting pieces than they were…

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Tags: JS BachMusette in DNotebook for Anna Magdalena Bachpiano teaching
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Teaching Bach’s Musette in D without the Score
Create First! Teaching Improvisation from Lesson One 

Create First! Teaching Improvisation from Lesson One 

By Informance, 2018-09-24
Posted in: Teaching

This week’s guest post features an article by pianist, composer, and educator Forrest Kinney. In his post, Forrest introduces his approach to a creativity-based model for music education in which…

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Tags: improvisationOnline Academy
Create First! Teaching Improvisation from Lesson One 
On Rhythm: How to Develop a Steady Pulse  

On Rhythm: How to Develop a Steady Pulse  

By Graham Fitch, 2018-09-20
Posted in: Practice tools, Practising, Rhythm, Teaching

I decided to put together an occasional series on rhythm, in response to readers who say they experience rhythmical issues when they play. There are many factors that may contribute…

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On Rhythm: How to Develop a Steady Pulse  
On Demonstration

On Demonstration

By Graham Fitch, 2018-05-17
Posted in: Teaching

There are those teachers who demonstrate for their students all the time in piano lessons, and those others who don't go near the instrument. I have studied with both types.…

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Tags: artur rubinsteinChopin op 25 no 11Yevgeny Kissin
On Demonstration
Remembering my Studies with Peter Wallfisch

Remembering my Studies with Peter Wallfisch

By Graham Fitch, 2015-07-10
Posted in: Teaching

I had the great privilege to embark on my postgraduate studies with Peter Wallfisch, studying with him from 1980 for two years (but returning on occasion thereafter). During my time…

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Remembering my Studies with Peter Wallfisch
A Practical Theory Lesson

A Practical Theory Lesson

By Graham Fitch, 2014-03-28
Posted in: Teaching

Most of us were probably brought up on the middle C approach to learning the piano, and the first scale we ever learned was C major. We probably got tangled…

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Tags: childrenChopinCircle of FifthsexerciseshandsJean-Jacques Eigeldingerscale-chordteachingtheorythumb
A Practical Theory Lesson
Chess or Checkers?

Chess or Checkers?

By Graham Fitch, 2013-10-11
Posted in: Teaching

I have written extensively about the subject of slow practice on this blog and elsewhere. Since slow practice is such a cornerstone of our practice routine I don't apologise for making a…

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Chess or Checkers?
Looping – How to Manage Repetition Rhythmically

Looping – How to Manage Repetition Rhythmically

By Graham Fitch, 2013-09-06
Posted in: Teaching

Piano playing requires extremely sophisticated motor skills and superfine coordination. While we acquire these skills for a new piece or if we are polishing up an old one, a certain…

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Looping – How to Manage Repetition Rhythmically

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