Teaching Bach’s Musette in D without the Score
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…
Laying Solid Foundations in a New Piece
Have you had the experience of learning a new piece one day and coming back to it the next day to find it hasn’t stuck at all? Photo by Ludwig…
Memory Tips: Transposition
When I was a student at the Royal College of Music, part of my course was a weekly class called "Keyboard Harmony" that dealt with such musicianly skills as harmonisation…
The Myth of the Easy Piece
Very often people tell me as they skim through a score "I don't really need to practise this bit because it's easy". I also hear "I totally messed that bit…