06/02/2026
Great critique!
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Helen's piano studio
Welcome to my studio. I am a Christian and a biblical counselor in training who loves to teach kids to appreciate and enjoy music - a gift from God.
"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me" (Gal. 2:20)
06/02/2026
06/01/2026
Being a piano teacher means you have to be creative to help your student understand the micro-techniques of playing on the piano keys. I am having a lot of fun using this squishy bread teaching various concepts.
In this particular case, the student can visually see how much weight she would put in a particular note and practice making different "depth" in the bread with different fingers, which is usually not visually presented (only auditory) in actual piano playing.
Stimulate a student's different senses is important in piano teaching.
06/01/2026
Another fun exercise to practice with students to play with their finger tips with a stable first joint.
05/31/2026
So happy to find a super fun squishy toy to teach a student how to gently hold their first finger joint to play without collapsing.
05/30/2026
The 100 years debate has been solved! 📰🗞️🎆🎉🎇
"For generations, pianists and music teachers have insisted that a performer's touch can change the character of a piano's sound. Skeptics argued that once a piano hammer strikes a string, the resulting tone is determined almost entirely by the instrument itself. Now, a major scientific study has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that pianists really can shape a piano's timbre through touch alone."
Researchers discovered that only a handful of extremely precise movement features were strongly connected to changes in perceived timbre. These included tiny variations in acceleration, timing, and synchronization between the hands. Most interestingly, altering a single movement feature could reliably change how listeners described the sound."
This research tells us that there is really a difference to learn to precisely manipulate sounds (how fast or slow, the stroke and the let go of a key, the timing, etc). A good teacher would be one who is able to analyse and teach the specific technique to a student, instead of just telling them "play darker, lighter, firmly or softer".
Read more here:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260528073949.htm
A 100-year-old piano mystery has finally been solved For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes. Using a cutting-edge sensor system that tracked piano key movements at 1,000 frames per second, researc...
05/28/2026
What we can learn from 🕷️🕷️
We met Lucas the Spider with my 9 year old student yesterday. Curling up our fingers naturally can help with piano playing. Repeated notes, fast turning, arpeggios and more.
Nature has a lot to teach us in many things in life.
05/27/2026
Play rapid notes mimicking spider leg's movements. The action initiates from the knuckle joints of thumb, 2nd and 3rd converging to the same point (same key).
05/26/2026
Learning to play in layers is important for even beginning students.
Watch how I teach the different layers in steps.
05/25/2026
Happy Monday!!!
Received this for free! But I am highly skeptical about it. I prefer practice on good keyboard weighted-keys or pianos.
Have you used this or know people using this? Leave me a comment so I know what you think about it!
05/24/2026
Congratulations to students who achieved distinctions in ABRSM in 2026. Hopefully more to come before the year ends!
Only practice videos were used in this recording.
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