I've noticed a misconception that learning your piano pieces better is the key to becoming comfortable with performance.

While it's certainly important to know your pieces well, performance is actually an entirely different skill that needs to be developed separately.

If you’ve been playing piano for a while and would like to branch out into writing music, here are a few tips I've learned over the years to help you enjoy the process and bring your best ideas forward.

If you’re learning piano so that you can figure out how to play a song by ear, you might benefit from a little road map to help you get there.

Here’s the road map I use to figure out songs as quickly and easily as possible. I hope it’s helpful to you, too!

The New Year is a great time to set new goals for ourselves, and I thought today it could be good for us to come together to share our goals and support each other in achieving them. As a piano teacher, I notice how often success in achieving goals is linked to the quality of the goal itself, so today I’d like to share three pieces of advice to help you create the most sustainable and motivating goals possible!

Today I’d like to share some sheet music I made to help you learn to play “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles using my favourite rhythm pattern for beginners.

If you’re new here, my rhythm pattern is an easy way for people to start playing piano by ear, rather than needing to learn how to read sheet music right away.

Recently we’ve been talking about the chords within any major key signature and how you can use them to create chord progressions that express different feelings. Today I’d like to expand on this to talk about some of the variations to the standard chords that musicians often use to express even more emotions in their music.

I think most of us have felt the pressure to be a good student and practice every day. Some people find the routine of daily practice to be really motivating. But I was never one of those people. I had to find my own ways to get motivated to practice, and today I’d like to share what I’ve learned in case it helps you!

If you're interested in gaining more independence in reading piano music, there is one skill I recommend you focus on that will catapult you to the next level -- and that is learning how to read rhythm. Learning how to identify the rhythm of the notes you’re supposed to play is going to unlock your confidence in a way that you can’t imagine! Today, I’d like to explain why this skill is so important, why hard for beginners to approach, and what you can do to gain your first steps in rhythmic independence :)

Playing along with your favourite songs is the best way to learn piano, but it can be difficult to get started if you don’t know what to do with your hands.

Today I’m sharing a really simple piano accompaniment pattern that’s easy to learn but has a huge range of applications if you want to play music by ear.