One author's thoughts for parents who struggle getting their children to practice the piano: I use the example of the child who was forced to learn piano as a child and hated it. They grow up and look back on the whole experience as a very dark period in their...
"The great masters stimulate and refresh the awareness of the spirit. As everyone knows, there are no depths of unhappiness, tragedy, frustration, anger, and despair, that haven't touched Mozart, for instance, to the very core of his being; nor was there any nuance,...
In this video I teach you how to improvise on the piano. If you want to get better and better at improvising once you master the tips I explain in this video, the next logical step is to learn all kinds of scales. I'll link to those as soon as I have a good...
In this video tutorial I look at how to use your piano's sustain pedal (sometimes, wrongly, called the "loud pedal"). You can use the sustain pedal both to help smooth out your playing and for some interesting effects. However, it's really important that you...
Using a metronome to play the piano can help you learn a song. Learn how to use a metronome to improve your piano playing with help from a piano teacher in this free video on piano lessons. Mr. Porter has spent over 45 years developing unique and highly effective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xjZOS67AdU Fingering exercises for piano players include stretches, scales, broken chords, arpeggios and four octaves. Learn to warm up your piano playing muscles with help from a piano teacher in this free video on piano...
Well, we didn't create this post title - it's taken directly from this teacher's Youtube post. If this can help you, you already a piano wizard! But you must admit he's got an interesting approach - perhaps better if he slowed it down just a tad...
