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…
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
Think an “easy” piano piece is effortless? Think again. Graham Fitch explains why even simple-looking scores require deep musicality, control, phrasing and expression!