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If you’d have asked me that question 15 years ago I would have said the words ‘acoustic’ without blinking. However, technology has moved on so much recently that I’ve completely gone the other way – …
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Although scales may seem rather boring, they are extremely important. To be able to play the piano well you need to have good dexterity in your fingers, and the best way to build up that strength is …
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Your fingers need to be numbered primarily to help identify which fingers should or could be used on a certain note, or set of notes. For example, typically when reading from sheet music the …
What is a time signature? If you look at a piece of music you will notice that at the beginning there are some numbers which sit on top of each other. This is a time signature, and tells the reader …
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The answer to this really does depend on what you ultimately want to achieve, and how much practice and effort you have time to put in. Speaking from experience, taking piano exams can be fun, …
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Here are quite a few bad habits, which are all easy to pick up. Most of the time it’s pianists who teach themselves who pick up bad habits, because your piano teacher can easily spot them and help …
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