Joanne Raffle Piano Tuition

23/03/2026

Fabulous concert by Derby Music Centre!

And there were some pianists in the percussion session!

11/10/2025

06/05/2024

Beautiful flowers and biscuits from my student who is moving on to another teacher. Thank you very much! I know you’ll fly!

14/04/2024

Do you have a child at Pingle Academy?

I have 3 spaces for 1:1 piano lessons there.
Send me a message to find out more!

24/03/2024

I’ve been doing “Stand Up Sit Down” (mentioned in this blog) at school for weeks and last week I took the words out this week.

I asked “how do you know what to do?!”

“You’re moving your arms!”

Ok, I’ll put my hands behind my back then…

“You’re moving your eyebrows”
(I must have expressive eyebrows)

I cover my eyebrows…how do you know now?!

“We’re reading your mind!” 😂

This blog will explore what it means to prepare our students aurally, physically and visually with practical suggestions for activities

17/03/2024

Helen made some very interesting points which I loved putting in blog form 💕💕

I previously discussed what we can do to prepare children to sing and how to help children sing confidently, but we also need to understand what pitch

26/02/2024

Thanks so much to all of my piano students and Will Raffle Guitar Teacher's guitar students for taking part in the Brewhouse Arts Centre concert in November last year!

The proceeds of the ticket sales raised £171.54 which have been donated to Young Minds.

Shall we do it again later this year?

15/11/2023

Trying out Music Theory for Young Children with my guinea pig - he loves the stickers!

It has a great balance of sticker and writing activities - great for motivation!

14/11/2023

12 Bar Blues improvisation on landmark notes by 4 year old pianist