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Category Archives: Piano Teaching Blog
My Journey – March 2020 to January 2022
A decision in January of 2022 brought me a quiet that had been missing from my life since covid19 hit the world. WhatsApp Replaces Real in March 2020 The Lockdown of March 2020 brought social isolation and took my piano teaching studio online. It was a time of tremendous change for all. Devices got busyContinue reading “My Journey – March 2020 to January 2022”
Book Review : Music Teaching Made Profitable
Music teachers often start their teaching careers thinking that knowledge of music and teaching is enough. Paying little attention to the business-side of teaching and learning about it through trial and error. There’s a wide range of people offering teaching in the music field here in India, ranging from students with a year of studyContinue reading “Book Review : Music Teaching Made Profitable”
Organizing Piano Practise
Very simply put, practise organization is effective workflow management techniques applied to piano practise. And also, applied to daily living. So piano students can fit piano practise into their busy study or work schedules in a relaxed way.
An Update on The Lockdown Piano Lessons Challenge
The Lockdown Piano Lessons Challenge helped me talk on student specific challenges that either get in the way of online lessons, or daily piano practise.
Here’s how it went…
The Lockdown Piano Lessons Challenge
A challenge for those of you who want to have some fun and learn a few tricks that will make online learning a breeze.
A Students Guide To Online Piano Lessons
The best set-up for online lessons is a computer or laptop with a digital camera and tripod. This isn’t workable for many piano students and students often prefer to set-up for once a week online piano lessons without much investment, using a device they already have – either cellphones or tablets. So here’s some ideasContinue reading “A Students Guide To Online Piano Lessons”
A guide to buying a suitable piano bench
This post talks about piano posture, what to consider when buying a piano bench & where the Indian student can find piano benches to suit different budgets. Plus an easy low-budget solution for a low piano bench. Practising on a basic keyboard during the early years of piano class Many Indian students buy basic 5-octaveContinue reading “A guide to buying a suitable piano bench”
What Piano Practise Is
Piano practise is an exploration of some work, or a section of that work, using a method or technique of exploration that is taught during piano lessons, to achieve a specific goal. Here’s a short reminder of what piano practise is Correctly shaped hands. Different from playing a piece. Repetition. Good posture. Short slots withContinue reading “What Piano Practise Is”
Book Review : The Art of Piano Fingering
The Art of Piano Fingering by Rami Bar-Niv is a wonderfully detailed exploration of piano fingering. It’s become my textbook for when I get stuck with fingering and need to study it in relation to playing technique, hand size and the kind of effect that a passage of piano music requires the pianist to produce.Continue reading “Book Review : The Art of Piano Fingering”
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