Category: Blog Posts

Practising Mistakes

Practising: What can you do to improve your practice sessions and so improve your playing more quickly? Distractions – switch

Using Toys As Learning Tools 2: Using Lego To Learn Notated Rhythm Notes on the page look all the same

This puzzle game (made by ThinkFun) is designed as a set of wordsearch puzzles. To play, the player chooses a

What’s wrong with a standard kitchen-type chair, you may ask? There are some old paintings showing pianists sitting on chairs

If you’re not sure whether you’ll take to the flute or want to see whether you would be able to

Mistakes – Some Thoughts Why do some pupils expect instant success? Why do they value themselves based on what they

There is a multitude of things to think about and questions to ask yourself when buying a piano. Acoustic piano,

Ideally pupils will have studied music theory hand-in-hand with learning an instrument / singing and so when the time comes

Back in September I started organising a pupils’ end of term concert. In previous years, a friend who’s a retired

I have been responsible for selling sheet music for charities – a charity shop and a local concert club. All

I have long enjoyed collecting second-hand sheet music (and books). I love going into a second-hand bookshop or charity shop

I found this old score (published c.1790) in one of the second-hand bookshops on Charing Cross Road, London,

Sat 25th June 2016 Received email from friend saying would I page-turn Ravel Gaspard at professional concert next Friday. Said