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


Top Equipment for Online 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...
Michael Hegarty
Dec 31, 20244 min read
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Review: Faber Accelerated Piano Adventures for the Older Beginner
This is a review of Faber Accelerated Piano Adventures: for the Older Beginner. I am not generally a fan of Faber's Piano Adventures...
Michael Hegarty
Dec 16, 20244 min read
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Exploring the Basics: How Do Piano Scales and Chords Work?
There is a common trope in contemporary piano teaching where one is constantly exhorted to 'teach chords', sometimes by other teachers...
Michael Hegarty
Dec 6, 20245 min read
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Review: Teaching Little Fingers to Play, by John Thompson
John Thompson's series of piano methods, encompassing the Modern Piano Course for Piano , Easiest Piano Course and Teaching Little...
Michael Hegarty
Nov 27, 20244 min read
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What Constitutes a Holistic Approach to Piano Tuition?
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...
Michael Hegarty
Nov 17, 20246 min read
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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...
Michael Hegarty
Mar 5, 20244 min read
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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...
Michael Hegarty
Feb 28, 20246 min read
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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...
Michael Hegarty
Feb 19, 20244 min read
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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...
Michael Hegarty
Jan 22, 20242 min read
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