Getting the most from this great hobby!
Have you ever wondered why we happily edit photographs—but somehow feel guilty about editing audio? We have long known that photos in newspapers and magazines are almost always ‘air brushed’. As Smartphones got better, we all started to realise that this was something that we could now do ourselves. As a result, the majority of...
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As I explained in my guide to Recording Piano at Home, I start with a very simple set up. However, it is possible go go further once we gain experience. Recording my playing and creating videos that I can post on social media gives me great pleasure. It’s not that I think my playing is...
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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. You can find...
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This article is part of my Guide on How to Record Your Piano at Home. Being an Apple user, I demonstrate mostly using Apple products. However, this same advice applies equally well to Android or Windows. What works on Apple … I did a series of posts around how to record your piano playing at...
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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 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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