Getting the most from this great hobby!
It’s about the speed A friend of mine told me that his piano teacher had recommended he try staccato practice when needing to build speed with something. I didn’t think about it too much at the time, but as I have a couple of projects at the moment that are requiring me to get up...
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This post is to go with my YouTube Video on improving your home recording visuals. When I first started to create short videos to post on my Facebook Page of myself playing the pieces I’d learned, one thing that was really apparent was that visually, watching someone play piano isn’t vastly engaging for your eyes...
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This article is part of my Step by Step guide to Recording Piano at Home and accompanies my YouTube video showing how to add Equalisation to a piano recording. Doing things the ‘easy way’ As I’ve indicated before, Video and Audio production used to be very much reserved to only those people who could afford...
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This article is part of my Step by Step guide to recording piano at home. Keep reading – this is easy to do! I feel it very important to urge you to keep reading … using words like adding Reverberation and some of the words that will follow is probably making you think ‘oops! Too...
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This article is part of my guide to recording your piano at home. If you’re looking for a simple way to improve your piano recordings without getting into anything technical, a plug-in microphone is one of the easiest upgrades you can make. In this article, I’ll show you how the Shure MV88 works, why it...
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An old friend once said to me (quoting – or so he said – Henry Ford) that, if you’re doing well, you can afford to advertise, if you’re not doing well, you can’t afford not to. I’ve searched for this quotation and from what I can see it doesn’t actually exist – however, it’s not...
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Any pianist knows that playing piano can be a lonely occupation – lots of hours work with often a limited audience for the output. However, in the new digital world, there are lots of ways to share with Family and Friends – and even the world at large. This article will get you started on...
This post is to go with my YouTube Video comparing Piano Practice to baking a Layer Cake. I often want to tackle pieces that are way beyond my current technical level. This means that by definition I need to gain the technique which I will need in order to be able to manage the new...
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This post is to go with my YouTube video Today I’d like to share a neat trick I found to help when trying to master a couple of tricky Waltzes on the piano. That trick is to play it in 4/4 time. You might think I’ve gone mad – a Waltz by definition is in...
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This post is to go with my YouTube video https://youtu.be/0Nz8ibdQUOI. Ever struggled to decide how fast (or slow) to play something – especially when there’s no metronome marking on the score? This is the case with most classical music and, in fact, you’d have to think about how useful they might really be in reality...
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