How to Find Your Key (in a piece of music)
The single most common question I receive from piano teachers around the world revolves around the issue of knowing what key
Dichotomies in Piano Pedagogy
One piano lesson is pretty much the same as another, it might be easy to think, other than the style
40 Piece Challenge Updates…
The story of more just keeps getting bigger… The latest unexpected development in the 40 Piece Challenge saga is the
Animal Farm (or, published piano pieces by Elissa Milne with titles that refer to living creatures)
The cataloguing continues, tonight with a view to fauna. I was born in Australia and then raised in New Zealand, and
The Collected 12-bar Blues for Piano (published) of Elissa Milne
The first “blues” I ever wrote was a song I concocted for my primary school friends to sing one lunchtime
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Repertoire: a “well-defined” or “ill-defined” problem?
Creativity is a goal oft-cited by parents wanting their off-spring to take piano lessons, and yet I find myself wondering
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The Blessing of Professional Development “Tithing”
Piano teachers are a professional cohort driven by a desire to do good in the world much more than
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How Many Arpeggios Are There? Really?
My colleague and friend, Samantha Coates, was wondering aloud on Facebook the other day just how many arpeggios there were.
Vendetta: backstory and teaching notes
Vendetta is a tango. I don’t know that I thought about the tango angle in any conscious way, but
Where did the 40 Piece Challenge begin?
I honestly didn’t expect the 40 Piece Challenge to go global the way it has quite as rapidly as it
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