Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
How much practice is necessary in order to learn to lay the piano is an interesting one. There are many varying opinions out there. Some of these opinions come from people such as myself, who have taught many students to play the piano while some people will have an opinion, who don’t even play a … Read more
Enharmonic Equivalents are one of those music terms that sound complex but aren’t actually complex at all. Basically enharmonic equivalents are where the one note can have more than one name. Sometimes when I am explaining this to a piano student of mine and they have a puzzled look on their face, I use the … Read more
I know it seems like I don’t like online piano courses and the truth is that because I have not looked at any of them in depth, any opinion I have at this stage is completely irrelevant. However, I often object to the way these online piano courses word their advertisements. One aspect I really … Read more
Learning to play the piano is wonderful and there can be many, many hours of pleasure from playing the piano. This is especially true for people who have waited years or even decades to take piano lessons, who find piano lessons particularly enjoyable because they have had to wait for so long. But what happens … Read more
When someone learns to read music, they soon learn about rests. Rests indicate when a person is not playing their instrument, or in the case of the piano, when one hand or both hands are not playing any notes at all. The effect is moments or periods of silence. For some people, the concept of … Read more
I was having a discussion with my husband the other morning which started with the fact that a relief teacher, who I had met the previous day, claimed that they had retired five times already! My husband’s comment was that he was either bored or short of money and that regardless of the reason, my … Read more
I’ve read the statement countless times that you don’t need to learn theory if you know chords. So many online courses make this claim, but the claim is simply false because knowledge of chords and how to play them is indeed part of music theory. I get that it is a tempting claim and on … Read more