SENSATIONAL SEVEN: BLACK KEY BUSINESS
byHow should I best prepare my student for learning Debussy’s La fille avec le cheveux de lin?” was a question recently posed in the…
Elissa Milne
What’s Cooking? An End of an Era (a very fine era it was, too)
byWhether 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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…