Teaching Beyond Major and Minor
byDisclaimer: if you live in the 19th century or earlier this article won’t have much relevance for you. Working on the P Plate Piano…
Piano Teaching Ideas
Articles on everything from sight reading to games in the studio!
75 Pieces in One Year?
byHow Ben Went From Beginner to Grade 2 in 10 Months! In 2011, I challenged all my students to learn at least 40 pieces…
Jazz Resource File Part 2
byJazz Hanon by Peter Deneff 696478 This book is kind of ugly, and kind of unbalanced (all the exercises have busy right…
Diary of a Piano Mama
byThere is an undeniably special relationship between a piano teacher and student. My piano teacher was like a second Mum to me and we…
Sight Reading Practice in the 21st Century
byThree years ago I had the pleasure of addressing a group of embryonic piano teachers at one of Australia’s distinguished universities. The thirty or…
Are these the luckiest piano teachers in Australia?
byWe think we may just have found the luckiest teachers in Australia! We asked Meg Blackley, Lynette Pfundt, Rob Deavin, Chris Murray, Sue Patterson…
40 Piece Challenge 2013
byThis year thousands of piano students from across the world have taken up the 40 Piece Challenge. Register for the challenge by sending an…
If Bach were alive today, his name would be LADY GAGA
byWell, perhaps not but indeed J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time – popular dances, preludes and exercises by living composers….
P Plate Piano- Piano Teaching to Inspire today’s young musicians
byMark Griffiths says that the introduction of the AMEB’s P Plate Piano into his teaching program has helped inspire his students to want to…
The Resource File: SIGHT READING
byIt seems that right from the earliest ever graded piano examinations students have been tested on their ability to play music on extremely short…
5 Minutes with …Australian Piano Teachers
byChristina Bond – QLD I love to play … music from the Romantic period and Jazz. I also love Hungarian and Spanish music too (so…
Jazz Resource File Part 1
byA student says ‘I want to play jazz’ and piano teachers the world over think ‘uh oh’. There’s a moment of calm before panic…