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Beginner’s Guide to Using Your Digital Piano As A MIDI Controller

by Doug Hanvey | September 19, 2020 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

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Getting to Know Adult Piano Students (Interview with Teri L.)

by Doug Hanvey | May 16, 2020 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

This is the first in a series of interviews with adult piano students. Teri returned to piano lessons in her retirement with the intention of learning to play jazz. What’s …Share...

8 Foundations for Better Piano Practicing

by Doug Hanvey | January 18, 2020 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

Before we even sit down to practice the piano, certain things need to happen, and others will optimally happen. Putting the following foundations into practice before you practice can help …Share...

Four Essential Practicing Strategies for Piano Students

by Doug Hanvey | November 16, 2019 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

Learn by Sight and by Ear Reading music is a vital skill, possessed by nearly all professional pianists. There is more music written for the piano than any other instrument. …Share...

The Best Free and Low Cost Applications and Web Tools for Piano Teachers and Students

by Doug Hanvey | September 14, 2019 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

With technology news lately being dominated by topics such as privacy issues (Facebook) and treatment of workers (Amazon), it becomes easier to dismiss the value that computers and the internet …Share...

How to Harmonize a Melody – Harmonic Function

by Doug Hanvey | July 20, 2019 | Learning, Practicing & Playing Piano

If piano teaching were really as traditional as many contemporary teachers imagine, then, like keyboard students in the 18th and 19th centuries, today’s students would more often be required to …Share...
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