We’re taking a break from our Practice Clinics over the summer but will resume with our next clinic on 14th September @ 12:00 BST. In the meantime, we’ve compiled a listing of recent additions and updates made to the Online Academy, including a selection of free videos.
In our latest series of videos, Dave Hall gives a step-by-step guide to improvisation for classical pianists who know their chords and scales, but who simply can’t think of anything to play when faced with a piano but no sheet music.
In this guest blog post, Ken Johansen discusses how the tendency of Classical musicians to be overly-reliant on musical notation can be detrimental to the development of general musicianship.
The last part of our Advanced Sight-Reading curriculum is now available and explores the subject of playing by ear.
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…
Dedicated to helping everyone play the music they love and long to play, Lucinda Mackworth-Young has developed a step-by-step system for learning to play by ear and improvise, so that…
I had an email from a reader asking how he could learn to play by ear, so here are some random thoughts on the subject. When we play by ear…
Recently I ordered a new item of furniture, and when it arrived the delivery man plonked his clipboard onto my piano and there began to do his paperwork. This gesture…
