The Busy Teachers’ Guide To Repertoire: Duets and Trios
byThe benefits of duet and ensemble playing are well-known, with the potential to help develop better listening, rhythmic, and general musicianship skills. Recently, I…
Repertoire Ideas
Articles on repertoire and new music for piano teaching
Doorway to the Treasures Within
by“I was around eight years old when I took my first AMEB exam. Strange as it may seem, I had a dream the night…
Umi’s Lullaby – one piece, hundreds of ways
byIn Issue 5 of The Piano Teacher magazine we published Sony Chua’s ‘musical smile’, Umi’s Lullaby. We invited teachers and students from around the…
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…
Getting to…
byThe Getting to…series is a home-grown Australian music publishing initiative that has developed into a phenomenon. Originally intended to be no more than a…
Price vs Value of Books
byI frequently hear piano teachers say that they simply cannot ask parents to buy books of music as the cost will be beyond the…
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…
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…
I want to tell you a story about my friend, Angelina.
byAngelina and I met almost 30 years ago, as primary school students who shared a piano teacher. In her wisdom, our teacher put us together as duet…
A Method for Everyone..
byAustralia/New Zealand Tour Review In 2011, Dr. Helen Marlais toured Australia and New Zealand giving workshops on her exceptional new piano method, Succeeding at…