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

Exploring Piano Methodologies: An Alternative to Piano Adventures

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

The Problem with Modern Piano Methods: Why Traditional Piano Teaching Works

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...

What should you expect when you begin piano lessons as an adult? Tips for beginner pianists.

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

Are Finger Exercises Worth It? A Brief Defence of the Value of Hanon in Piano Studies.

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...