How to keep your groove and tempo stable

Feeling and trusting your groove is the best way to keep the tempo solid. Practising with a metronome or listening and checking not only fails to improve any underlying weakness in rhythmic stability, it often makes the problem worse!

Pianoteq 8 is released

There’s greater warmth, smoothness, depth, presence and immersive expressiveness in this latest version of Pianoteq.

Flowing music by Haydn on Pianoteq’s J. Dohnal fortepiano

2nd movement from Haydn’s Sonata no. 33 in C minor played on a historic piano, which adds a lively rhythmic quality to this lyrical piece.

Let go of self-consciousness and experience GROOVE!

How you must find the courage to allow your natural rhythmic sense to channel your energies to make your body move with grace, freedom and expressiveness.

How dark is Chopin’s mood in this beautiful Nocturne…

There’s an epic quality to Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor, with its expansive texture and rich, dark harmonies that are almost like Rachmaninov.

A cathartic piano improvisation for a dark mood

When I feel a little bleak, I improvise, to get the darkness out.

Haydn Sonata no. 33 1st mvt. on Pianoteq’s J. Dohnal

C minor pieces from this time were full of “Sturm und Drang” and this historic piano is great for expressing these dark feelings.

Improvisation on Rhodes Piano – based on an original song

Here’s some nice varied tone colours, lush jazzy harmonies and weaving counterpoint on Pianoteq’s MKI Rhodes Piano.