It’s really common for my piano students to just start reading a piece of music from the beginning, with no preparation or planning. But just launching into sight reading with no preparation is an easy way to get lost and frustrated.

You can set yourself up for breezier success if you find some relationships between your notes before you start to play.

When we're constantly challenging ourselves and trying new things at our pianos, it can be easy to start thinking that our piano journey is nothing but one big struggle. But I want to encourage you to purposefully build times of rest or relief into your piano practice.

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!

After seeing how popular my post on choosing chord progressions that reflect your emotions was, I wanted to offer another way of approaching heartfelt songwriting — that is, starting with a melody first and choosing your chord progressions afterwards. In this video, I demonstrate my process for infusing my emotions into a melody and then choosing a chord progression that feels right for it.

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!

It’s New Year’s Eve where I live, and I’m just wrapping up an extended winter holiday at my in-laws’. I feel refreshed and very grateful for the year that’s wrapping up tonight! Before the year is up, however, I wanted to take a moment to recap what 2023 has looked like and meant to me, by outlining my most popular content and sharing a bit about the lessons I learned this year. Let’s get into it!

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.