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Six-Hands Piano!
Through my experience as a piano teacher, I have seen how important it is to train the students’ musical understanding as well as technical skills. Using ensemble pieces for pianists, students learn to listen to themselves but also to others in the group. Ensemble playing creates a fun and...
Stopping Practice
In my quest to establish in the practice session as many of the reflexes we're going to use in actual performance as possible, I have come to see that stopping for every mistake is troublesome. Surely the art of performance is to form an unerring arch from the first note to the last despite what...
Case Study - 10 week Piano Tuition Programme
This is a case study on one of my current pupils based over a 10-week programme of piano lessons. I have outlined aims and objectives to achieve (or aim to achieve) by the end of this period; listed below as Short Term, Mid Term and Long Term; followed by a Lesson Plan, a Lesson Report and...
Sight Reading
Sight-Reading by Frederick Scott ‘…the sight of the notes will at once induce the fingers to assume the correct position’ (Jozsef Gat, Technique of Piano Playing, 1965). Music can be said to exist in several media: the imagination (memory or the creative instinct), aural perception (passive...
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Enjoyment of Making Music
Learning to play the piano is one of the best gifts my parents have given to me. Having the ability to express oneself through music is priceless and is largely underrated in our materialistically-driven world. We can all enjoy listening to music but to be able to play an instrument and to...
'Ze little grey cells'
It has long been proved that learning to play the piano, nay, any musical instrument actually makes you smarter! Unfortunately, simply listening to hours of your favourite composer won't quite hack it; you have to put in the effort and practise. So what causes the human brain to respond in...
Alexander Technique as Art: Pragmatic Nishida
Alexander Technique as Art: A Pragmatic reading of Nishida In this essay I will show how the 19th century American philosophical school of Pragmatism links Nishida and Alexander Technique, explain how Nishida’s ideas appear to raise Alexander Technique to the level of great art, and use the...
Discovering Classical Music
Too often, I hear people tell me: "I don't understand how to listen to Classical music." To be honest, I didn't really understand until I took music lessons, but more so in my early 20's when I was immersed in classical music for 6 hours a day for 7 days a week. Then in my last two years,...