Getting the most from this great hobby!
The Essential and Nice to Have settings at your fingertips This article is part of my guide to recording your piano at home. More and more people are enjoying recording themselves playing Piano and sharing on social media. This is either for advice from other pianists or just for the sheer hell of it. An...
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Piano Solo? Piano can sometimes be a lonely hobby … do you ever want to play with your own band, ensemble or even orchestra? Well, these days you can quite easily create your own if you’re willing to spend the time. Keep reading to learn how. We pianists spend hour upon hour alone practicing. For...
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Piano playing essentials I’m a firm believer in using the technology (such as iPads) available to us all now to enhance our enjoyment of our great piano playing hobby. It’s possible to use an iPad or other tablet to replace many of the things any pianist needs – things like Sheet Music, a Metronome, a...
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There are so many flawless versions … You might think there is no benefit to the wider world in us recording ourselves playing and then publishing on YouTube or Facebook. Clearly, we amateurs aren’t likely to produce a rendition as faultless as our favourite pianists, however, that doesn’t mean that we aren’t some of the...
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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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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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This article is part of my step by step guide on recording your piano at home. 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...
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