Getting the most from this great hobby!
One thing that brings me great pleasure is recording my playing and creating videos that I can post on social media. It’s not that I think my playing is anything amazing. Rather, it’s that now, at home, it’s possible to get really quite impressive results without needing to spend a fortune. Coming from the generation...
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Volume 3 of my free eBook Series on recording your piano playing is now available. You’ll see a whole series of articles on this website about this – all of which link to YouTube videos. However, I felt that for those who weren’t so used to manipulating unfamiliar software, it would be worth doing something...
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I was recently asked how to play piano duets with yourself. Of course, as well as playing piano duets with yourself, you can also create great recordings to share on social media of both parts together! To do this, you’ll need to be familiar with how to record your own piano playing. Much of the...
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What works on Apple … I did a series of posts around how to record your piano playing at home using your smartphone. I’ve received some good feedback that they have proved useful to my fellow pianists. Being an Apple User, I mainly described how to do this using an iPhone and then showed some...
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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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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 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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