Unfortunately, most piano students begin and end their musical careers struggling to play notation, not music...
Piano Technique: Introduction to Musical Mind
Category: Piano Technique
Learn how to move your body in a way that fluently expresses your musical intentions
Piano Technique: Introduction to Phrasing
Artistic phrasing is all about being natural!
Piano Technique: Keyboard Layout: The Four “Middles”
Did you know that there are four "middles" on an 88 key keyboard? Let's take them one by one and discuss why understanding where these "middles" are is so important to your piano technique. A Typical 88 Key Keyboard Before we talk about the four "middles" let's remind ourselves that a standard 88 key keyboard … Continue reading Piano Technique: Keyboard Layout: The Four “Middles”
Piano Technique: Play Something!
Music has universal power...
...to inspire joy or instill fear, to create an air of mystery or anticipation, to celebrate a triumph, or to honor a fallen comrade. It has the power to make us march, dance, sing, remember, laugh, and cry.
Piano Technique: Articulations (Legato, Staccato, Portato)
's explore the expressive potential of different articulations by playing the same phrase using three different "touches" -- legato, staccato, and portato…
Piano Technique: Chunking & Continuity
One of the biggest mistakes a student can make is to read, think, listen, and play one-note-at-a-time... One can never overstate the importance of thinking and playing in meaningful musical chunks... never as isolated, unrelated notes. Piano Technique: Chunking & Continuity Video https://youtube.com/watch?v=fczJQzTo3hY learn more... Piano Technique
Piano Technique: “Inside” a Single Note
Did you know that musical tones have both insides and outsides?
Piano Technique: Fingering Charts: Minor Triad Arpeggios
Fingering charts in PDF format showing finger choice and placement for the Minor Triad Arpeggios over two octaves in both hands… Arpeggio study should never be a mindless, mechanical exercise. Done right, playing arpeggios is a great way to really learn your way around the keyboard and to work on your technique, rhythm, ears, and interpretation. … Continue reading Piano Technique: Fingering Charts: Minor Triad Arpeggios
Piano Technique: Fingering Charts: Major Triad Arpeggios
Fingering charts in PDF format showing finger choice and placement for the Major Triad Arpeggios over two octaves in both hands… Arpeggio study should never be a mindless, mechanical exercise. Done right, playing arpeggios is a great way to really learn your way around the keyboard and to work on your technique, rhythm, ears, and interpretation. … Continue reading Piano Technique: Fingering Charts: Major Triad Arpeggios
Piano Technique: Fingering Charts: 12 Natural Minor Scales
Fingering charts in PDF format showing finger choice and placement for the Natural Minor Scales over two octaves in both hands… Fingering Charts for the Natural Minor Scales... Showing the approximate locations of your fingertips, arranged around the cycle of dominants… Download PDF learn more... Fingering Charts: Major Triad Arpeggios