Jan 14, 2022 | Teaching & learning
The ability to play rhythmically comes from a natural inner feeling in our body and soul. It feels good and we know when we’re engaged with it. Letting go to play and express ourselves from that place of rhythmic freedom takes practice.
Dec 7, 2021 | How music works, Teaching & learning
When we strip away all the techniques and analyses about what rhythm is and how it works, what do we find at the very source?
Nov 20, 2021 | Teaching & learning
When we practise scales and learn the theory of chords and voicing, the process is laborious and often dull. So I found a way to bypass this boring work by practising drills that get around the keys using lots of intricate harmonies.
Aug 23, 2021 | Teaching & learning
To be fluent tonally, to handle harmony and melody with effortless ease, you need to know all your harmonic blocks as unified structures plugged into the whole keyboard map. We tend to focus on the musical surface, often simply the melody, using our...
Jul 30, 2021 | Practice & performance, Teaching & learning
Scales and arpeggios are considered good practice and to question something that is so normal and ubiquitous might seem almost sacrilegious. But the truth is I don’t practise them or teach fluent keyboard musicianship using them because I find that they...
Jul 22, 2021 | Artistic philosophy, Practice & performance, Teaching & learning
Why is it difficult to be spontaneous and self-expressive as a musician? It should be easy: it is a simple act of letting go, tuning into yourself and feeling whatever is there: dark passions, love, vulnerability, powerful, deep consciousness that expresses an...
