20/08/2025
Tip of the day! - Struggling with long pieces? 🧐
Try sectional practice: break your piece into small, overlapping chunks. Master each section thoroughly—especially the first and last—then gradually connect them. It’s faster learning than playing through from start to finish every time!
Why it works:
This method teaches efficient, focused practice, helping you avoid ingraining mistakes and build confidence section by section, which research confirms accelerates learning. ✨
The Ultimate Collection of Piano Practice Strategies – Colourful Keys
Students generally spend at least 95% of their piano time alone, so I'm always thinking up practice strategies to make that time count.
14/09/2023
Good little summary of basic chord progressions with examples. Good for improvisation practice but also knowing and recognizing them will make it easier for you to join a jam!
https://www.pianote.com/blog/piano-chord-progressions/
Top 10 Piano Chord Progressions (And How They Work)
Everything you need to know about piano chord progressions. Learn how to improvise, write songs, and more with the most popular progressions.
10/09/2023
Why 15 minutes long practice every day is better than once a week catch up? 🤔
It all has to do with how your brain processes new information and how it stores long term memory.
You can help your brain learn better by triggering its voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, habit learning, eye movements, cognition, and emotion regularly! 🧠
So go ahead, sit by your instrument and just ask yourself what do you feel like working on today for 15minutes?
- scales and arpeggios
- sight reading
- improvisation
- a part of a piece you're learning
- chord progressions
- transcription?
Doesn't matter what you choose, just practice every day! 🥳
29/01/2023
Take a look at this original, contemporary piano playing!
Great for inspiration and reminder that exploration of the instrument is never ending!
Hauschka at NPR: Improvisation
Listening to a piece by Hauschka can be deceiving: What sounds like an ensemble of musicians and instruments is just one man, performing at one piano. His re...
15/10/2022
This Sunday in our studio we have a acoustic experimental music night - LINA REJ x LUNA AVEM.
I'll be playing on my prepared piano and accordion, with Emma Exton on violin and guitar! If you're curious what can be done with acoustic instruments in terms of sound bending and unconventional use - come to see our explorations.
https://www.facebook.com/events/488775366299161/
08/10/2022
Piano is a magical instrument and should be explored to the fullest.
Prepared piano week incoming in the studio!
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage's dance music for Bacchanale (c. 1938), created without room for a percussion orchestra.
20/05/2022
This is your brain on piano ☺️
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