SENSATIONAL SEVEN: BLACK KEY BUSINESS
How should I best prepare my student for learning Debussy’s La fille avec le cheveux de lin?” was a question recently posed in the…
What’s Cooking? An End of an Era (a very fine era it was, too)
Whether you know it or not the Australian piano teaching landscape is about to experience big change. It’s the kind of change that happens…
Teaching Beyond Major and Minor
Disclaimer: if you live in the 19th century or earlier this article won’t have much relevance for you. Working on the P Plate Piano…
Jazz Resource File Part 2
Jazz Hanon by Peter Deneff 696478 This book is kind of ugly, and kind of unbalanced (all the exercises have busy right…
Social Media
Once upon a time… the suburbs were born, and piano teachers found themselves increasingly isolated, working in home studios far away from shops, offices,…
40 Piece Challenge 2013
This year thousands of piano students from across the world have taken up the 40 Piece Challenge. Register for the challenge by sending an…
Price vs Value of Books
I frequently hear piano teachers say that they simply cannot ask parents to buy books of music as the cost will be beyond the…
The Resource File: SIGHT READING
It seems that right from the earliest ever graded piano examinations students have been tested on their ability to play music on extremely short…
Jazz Resource File Part 1
A student says ‘I want to play jazz’ and piano teachers the world over think ‘uh oh’. There’s a moment of calm before panic…