Practice Advice
Graham Fitch, pianist and teacher has an informative site dedicated to articles on practice. His Top Ten Tips to maximise your practice is a good article to start with. Tutorial videos by Graham Fitch are also included on the Pianist Magazine's youtube channel.
The Bullet Proof Musician is a website with a blog full of articles on performance anxiety and advice on practice.
Paul Barton has a great youtube channel with lovely performances of pieces and helpful tutorials on specific pieces or techniques.
Edna Golands is a pianist whose blog includes instructional videos on solving technical problems commonly encountered by pianists, for example in the playing of arpeggios, scales and trills.
Melanie Spanswick, pianist and teachers has many articles of interest.
The Bullet Proof Musician is a website with a blog full of articles on performance anxiety and advice on practice.
Paul Barton has a great youtube channel with lovely performances of pieces and helpful tutorials on specific pieces or techniques.
Edna Golands is a pianist whose blog includes instructional videos on solving technical problems commonly encountered by pianists, for example in the playing of arpeggios, scales and trills.
Melanie Spanswick, pianist and teachers has many articles of interest.
Forums
There are many forums you can join on the net, but the one I use regularly is run by the ABRSM. They have a couple of dedicated ones for both pianists and adult learners. If you use any forum and find it useful, please let me know and I'll add it!
New Music
This space is for discovering new repertoire and will be updated.
Currently, I'm enjoying playing Oceano by Roberto Cacciacpaglia, which comes from a volume of piano music titles Quarto Tempo. If you like the music of Einaudi, you may well enjoy this Italian composer.
Currently, I'm enjoying playing Oceano by Roberto Cacciacpaglia, which comes from a volume of piano music titles Quarto Tempo. If you like the music of Einaudi, you may well enjoy this Italian composer.
Tim Topham, a teacher whose blog I regularly follow, often searches out great new music. Here's a link to his latest article, new repertoire, which provides clips and links to more composers of the same genre as Einaudi.
Recordings
A while ago, Andrew worked on arranging his own version of a beautiful piece of music by Einaudi, called Love is a Mystery. Here is Andrew's recording of the piece, which he uploaded to youtube. I'm hoping to encourage a few more adult pupils to record their pieces and share them here. Recording provides a good goal as well as help in practising towards an exam or performance. It's also a great way to simply share your music.