My Top Tips and Advice for Improving Piano Technique and Performance, acquired over years of giving piano lessons.

In this article I will discuss the best equipment and software to use for online piano lessons. While the ability to take piano lessons...

This is a review of Faber Accelerated Piano Adventures: for the Older Beginner. I am not generally a fan of Faber's Piano Adventures...

There is a common trope in contemporary piano teaching where one is constantly exhorted to 'teach chords', sometimes by other teachers...

John Thompson's series of piano methods, encompassing the Modern Piano Course for Piano , Easiest Piano Course and Teaching Little...

The question that presents itself to us when we first begin to teach a new piano student is: how do we ensure that we produce a musician...

It can hardly be an exaggeration to say that this little-known volume, contemporaneously at least, is quite possibly the best summary of...

Playing scales is one of the most fundamental skills that we, as pianist, must develop. Yet a complete, unadulterated scale will hardly...

This post is a congratulations to my student, Victoria, on her first rate distinction in her grade 1 piano. She attained excellent marks....

Most people will say, when pressed, that one of their regrets in life is not learning to play an instrument. There is something...

This will be only a brief post on the topic of self-reliance and how to teach pupils in a way that will maximize their independence....

When we first begin to study the piano, one of the biggest questions we have is: Which piano or keyboard should I choose? In the first...

I wrote an essay detailing why I believe, on the one hand, that Piano Adventures and similar modern pedagogies are not conducive in...

If you are thinking about learning to play the piano or are a piano teacher yourself, you will at some point come across someone singing...

Starting private piano lessons for the first time can be daunting. You don't know the teacher; this will, most likely, be someone you...

The value of finger exercises for students of the piano, such as C-L. Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises, has been greatly...

Those of us who have completed the series of ABRSM examinations in piano will have had the experience, most likely, of cramming enough...

As this is the piano method which I use most frequently in my own piano lessons, and on which I was initially taught myself, I cannot...

Overall assessment This piano tutor book, it's never too late... to learn piano, by Pam Wedgwood, is an interesting and well-developed...

Having established in an earlier post the central importance of sight-reading in the training of the musician, what concrete steps might...

When we begin learning a musical instrument for the first time, we have to overcome the initial difficulty of reading music. All tyro...