HOW TO USE YOUTUBE: Cello teacher Hans Jorgen Jensen (from Denmark) taught me the "right" way to use many performances on YouTube to...

Joe, my neighbor-piano mentor friend pictured here before he played my Duchess, loves to prepare for months for his student recital every...

Why is explaining how do make something happen on the piano, or what a term in the piano vocabulary means, so difficult for my piano...

Last night I played Schumann's "Traumerie," Mendelssohn's "Confidence (intermediate arrangement)," Schumann's "Foreign Lands," Aram...

At the end of March, 2023 I will accomplish 24 months of weekly piano lessons. So what do I wish I had known before I returned to study...

Being an amateur pianist who studies in individual zoom lessons at home, is a lonely affair. It occurred to me after about a year of such...

I'm eternally curious about what makes for an effective piano teacher. Here's a helpful list of 19 common elements present in the methods...

The more I delve into new words and concepts from the world of music, the more I find ambiguity and vagueness. So often the experts I...

There is nothing different -- and everything different -- about teaching the piano to older students! Working in a cooperative...

People who experience more anxiety than others tend to focus attention on OPO (other people’s opinions), especially negative opinions....

“Sitting in the pocket” is a summary saying that comes to my mind when I consider this blog topic. On December 14 in an earlier blog, I...

Motivation to persist is a gossamer, ethereal concept. The yearning for some goal or thing is not all, because in order to effectively...

Such a lovely holiday present just arrived in my Dec. 23 morning email and it's about bells! It's an article written by Maureen Buja, a...

This is the month and this is the week of "giving." For me, it's a time to take stock of my year and remember all the things for which I...

My mom used to tell me there was always a silver lining in every cloud. Not long ago during two years of holistic physical training, my...

“You have a sound pedaling technique and appropriate expression of the feeling of the piece,” my online piano teacher had said on...

In February 2022 after one year of piano lessons, a certain experience got my attention in a big way. There was time to play two pieces...

A Teacher’s Role A teacher’s role is wider than just giving us effective methods. It’s more to help us hear the tune and understand the...