Getting the most from this great hobby!
Goodbye to bags and bags of paper On discovering forScore for piano sheet music, it makes me smile as I remember all those years ago. As a student, I often played background music at dinner functions. I used to carry around two massive plastic bags of books, photocopies and all sorts of moth-eared bits of...
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To plan or not to plan …? Do you plan out your practice or just go with the flow? We all have limited time to practice and, if there is one thing I have learned with age, it’s that when things are well planned up front, it generally saves lots of time and effort down...
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This post is to go with my YouTube video with piano practice ideas for Chopin’s C Sharp Minor Waltz (Op 64 No. 2). I found it quite tricky to master and as I tried to overcome the problem areas, I came up with a few strategies that I’d like to share with you. Basic structure...
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One element of creating Tommy’s Piano Corner is – even so late in life – to try to migrate my remaining working life into something more musical. Clearly, I’ve left it a little late to aim to be a concert pianist (and, in any event, I was never at a level to aspire to be...
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This article is part of my Step by Step guide on Recording Piano at Home and accompanies my YouTube Video on how we can get around odd mistakes when we’re trying to record ourselves playing. Why would we want to do it? When we’re alone and practicing away, as we get a piece to a...
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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 article is part of my step by step guide to Recording Your Piano at Home and accompanies 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...
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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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