Elementary Technique Workshop
Penelope Roskell is presenting a practical workshop on 12th Nov 2022 on fundamental aspects of elementary piano technique for adult beginners, returners and teachers.
The Importance of Teaching Healthy 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!
Mastering Piano Technique
The Online Academy’s technique resources present a variety of recognised approaches to mastering piano technique, enabling you to realise your musical and artistic intentions at the piano.
Jailbreaking Hanon
Graham Fitch shows how Hanon’s exercises can be used creatively as a blank canvas to experience and develop movements encountered in real music.
The Hanon Debate (Part 2)
This blog post features the views of pianist Peter Donohoe on the use of Hanon’s Virtuoso Pianist as part of our debate on the subject.
The Hanon Debate (Part 1)
As we saw from responses to last week's post, the exercises of Hanon are a hotly debated topic. It seems there is nothing more provocative than uttering the name of…
How to Use Hanon
In this week’s guest post, Ilga Pitkevica discusses the ubiquitous exercises of Hanon and shares her views on how to use them effectively. *** Mastering all core types of piano…
Improve Your Technique!
A collection of resources to help you improve your piano technique and achieve your pianistic goals!
Technical Fundamentals Collection
The Online Academy's content library continues to grow with almost 100 videos added in the last few months alone! We've also recently added a new "collections" feature to provide another…
“Everything You Know Is Wrong!”
When I first witnessed international piano guru, Peter Feuchtwanger, demonstrate his exercises in a class I was so shocked by them that I had to leave the room for a…