Learning to Read Music

Unveiling the World of Online Piano Forums

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I must admit I am not the most technologically savvy nor do I regularly get on the internet and just have a look around. If I’m on the internet, it is for a specific purpose. This is why I have only discovered this year that there is such a thing as piano playing forums, specifically … Read more

Strike the Right Chord: Your Guide to Piano Playing Forums

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I must admit I am not the most technologically savvy nor do I regularly get on the internet and just have a look around. If I’m on the internet, it is for a specific purpose. This is why I have only discovered this year that there is such a thing as piano playing forums, specifically … Read more

When Piano Practice and Piano Lessons Go Wrong

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There are times when we sit down to practice or have a piano lesson and everything goes wrong and you feel like you are completely wasting your time. You are left with feelings of frustration and annoyance. No, I haven’t been spying on you, I just know that it happens to everyone. This is not … Read more

Learning to Read the Lines and Spaces of the Treble Clef and Bass Clef

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Everyone has there own way of learning and while some techniques work for some people, they will not work for all. The same principle applies to learning to play a musical instrument and learning to read and interpret musical notation. Learning to read the treble clef notes and the bass clef notes can be easy … Read more

Vegetable Rhythms – What Are They and How Can They Help?

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In my work this year as a relief music teacher working across primary and high schools, I have come across the concept of vegetable rhythms and even though they are aimed at children from the ages of 5 to 8, I think that whoever came up with the concept was really rather clever. Vegetable rhythms … Read more

Old Piano Books- Are They Any Use?

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t strikes me as amusing that one thing that tends to not ever be thrown out is old music books. People that don’t play the piano, have never wanted  to or will ever want to learn to play the piano, will hold on to piano music, sometimes for generations. This has been the case on … Read more

Ways to Count When Learning a New Piano Piece

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There are some people who can sit down at a piano and just play stuff with seemingly no effort at all. They seem to get the notes and the timing (or rhythm) without even really thinking. This is the perception but it is not actually a reality. I would be one of those people who … Read more