Piano Lessons

Rote Learning Has Its Place

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When we were young and in school, a lot of the learning we did was rote learning, but then in the eighties and nineties, rote learning was considered antiquated (or at least this was the experience in Australia). It’s funny how things can go in and out of fashion – even in education circles. Now … Read more

Learning to Play the Piano is Just Another Skill

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By the time people have reached the age of retirement, they have amassed quite a lot of skills. You probably don’t even realize just how many skills you actually have. It is just my opinion that even by the time a person hits their mid forties, they know quite a bit that the younger generation … Read more

Mistakes are Important to Make

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I know it sounds counter intuitive at best and crazy at worst, but it is true that mistakes are beneficial to make when you are learning to play the piano. So often we are trying to avoid mistakes because it is the mistakes that makes our playing flawed, but really it is making mistakes that … Read more

The Benefits of a Piano Teacher Over Learning From the Internet

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Let me just state that if you are wanting to learn to play the piano, especially if you learned many years ago or you know how to play another instrument, then learning online can be a good option. Learning online can be a very economical way of learning to play the piano. Maybe I am … Read more

There is One Rule That Should Never Be Broken

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If you have followed my blog much at all, you probably realize that even though I have formulated what I think is the ideal way of learning to play the piano, I am flexible and I think that there are many circumstances that require a different approach or a different mindset to tackling an issue … Read more