How To Help a Piano Student Have a Teachable Attitude

How To Help a Piano Student Have a Teachable Attitude

A teacher’s attitude and comments during the lesson can have a great effect on a student’s outlook, confidence, performance, and...

How Fantastic – the Piano Created by Mozart!

How Fantastic – the Piano Created by Mozart!

Mozart only lived 35 years but was certainly one of the greatest minds to compose sublime music, still adored today....

How Your Musical Brain Works – Use It or Lose It

How Your Musical Brain Works – Use It or Lose It

So many, many possibilities exist with a baby’s brain! Trillions of neurons in the brain at birth are free and...

Surprise! What Learner Type are You?

Surprise! What Learner Type are You?

I learned more than a few things in writing this and researching a bit on the different learner type categories...

Surprising Effect of Using Cursive Writing to Better Learn Piano

Surprising Effect of Using Cursive Writing to Better Learn Piano

Very simply, the more the two hemispheres of the brain connect, the better the person performs any particular task. Cross-brain,...

Interesting 2 Things that Interfere with Adult Beginner Piano Learning

Interesting 2 Things that Interfere with Adult Beginner Piano Learning

I had a delightful first piano lesson with an adult beginner who had never had music lessons. During the session,...

Surprising Reason Why the Piano has 88 Keys

Surprising Reason Why the Piano has 88 Keys

We take for granted that the piano has 88 keys. Did you know that the first instrument to use the...

How the Metronome was “Stolen”!

How the Metronome was “Stolen”!

I never wondered how the metronome was invented until I came across some information about it recently. I actually don’t...

Amazing Reasons Why the Piano Has Black and White Keys

Amazing Reasons Why the Piano Has Black and White Keys

How did the piano come to have black and white keys

What 4 Surprising Things Improve Student Playing

What 4 Surprising Things Improve Student Playing

When I think about things that improve student playing, a mental picture of a previous piano student comes right to...