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Many people want to learn blues piano but don't know where to start. They get overwhelmed with the technical dazzle of the performer and their ability to improvise easily. Don't be put off. The easier and simple way lies below.

If you intend to start learning blues piano, I recommend you work your way through at a few beginners books first. If you don't have any, there many recommended books that can be found on places like Amazon with the usual reader…

Music selection for an exam/audition is one of the most important you can do. Choose easy pieces and you might be accused of “playing it safe” Choose harder ones and you might be criticised for overextending yourself or being overambitious. Then there’s choosing pieces that you can play but are well known. You might be caught out and seen as not understanding the music if it’s a famous work or even be thought of as unimaginative if it’s something many others have played before (e.g. think…

As the beginning of my other article on practice says: "practice is a dirty word". The realisation that you'll have to put in the time (in particular, hours) to get the results you want, stop many dead in their tracks before they even set foot near their instrument. It gets all too easy to 'do it later/tomorrow/in the coming days/week' etc. Before you know it, what you should have done…

This post is for teachers and pupils on how to use audio to help learning of songs on piano. It is important for the pupil to be able on some level to develop good aural skills in order for them to play their favourite songs.

This means they should be working on:

• recognising notes
• scales
• understanding key signatures and what they mean
• intervals
• rhythm as well as being able to sing back a melody they hear or clap a beat.

It…