Building Your Music Theory Knowledge
Resources to help you build your knowledge of music theory to help you learn faster, interpret more authentically and develop other skills!
Why Does Bach Sound Like Bach?
Lona Kozik’s unique new Online Academy course blends analysis and music history to produce deeper understanding and engagement with classical music.
Creative Practising Using Keyboard Harmony
Discover how keyboard harmony skills can be used to help you learn piano music more effectively!
Bach, Berens & Improvisation
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.
Making Friends with Fiddly Fiorature
Over the past couple of weeks I have had a few requests for advice on how to handle the flurries of little notes we find in the music of Chopin.…
Resources for Studying Bach
Quite a lot of my students bring the works of JS Bach to lessons, which is always a delight. I often find myself directing them to various different sources to…
A Practical Theory Lesson
Learn why starting with B major and D flat major scales simplifies piano learning. Chopin’s approach makes scales more comfortable for beginners. Discover practical exercises like the Circle of Fifths and improve your piano teaching techniques!
Don’t Try This at Home! – Mechanical Aids to Practice
If you were a student at the Stuttgart Conservatory in the mid 1800‘s during the reign of Sigismund Lebert and Ludwig Stark, you would have had to practise a strict…
Five Fingers
My piano chum, Leon Whitesell, has a brand new Facebook group called Piano Playing Questions. In a recent post, Leon referred to the five-finger exercise formulae of famous Russian teacher,…
Transposing the Difficult Spot
Vocal accompanists and repetiteurs need to develop the skills to transpose virtually at sight in order to accommodate the different voice types and the vocal ranges of the singers they…