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

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

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...

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