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
lydian mode
Talking About Music….
You know the line “talking about music is like dancing about architecture“? It’s true: talking about music is a little like
P Plate Piano Masterclass (VMTA January 19)
It’s been a while since I talked P Plate Piano. After a flurry of launch events introducing the P Plate Piano philosophy and publications in the last weeks of 2009 and the first six months of 2010, I’d had a welcome lull. But the new teaching year is almost upon us, and AMEB Victoria saw the Victorian Music Teachers Association Conference as the perfect opportunity to look at P Plate Piano one year on. One year on means that students (and teachers) have actually been using these books, playing the pieces, experimenting with the activities, and exploring the things they can do with this repertoire. One year on also means that the world has changed: touch-screen technologies have gone mainstream, with primary school students receiving iPodTouch and iPad devices for Christmas. [Yes, one would think they’d have had to be particularly good to have an iPad in their Christmas stocking.] Factor in toddlers and preschoolers expertly manipulating any range of
Scale of the Day #2: The Simpsons Scale
Rather than alter the original post (which would make the comments below somewhat hard to follow) I will leave it
Scales as propaganda
Why do we require our students to learn scales? It’s heresy, really, to suggest giving piano lessons without teaching students
Elissa Milne 