Rhythm is one of the most difficult music skills to teach and to learn. Last month I posted an exercise to help you keep your eighth...

We know that setting goals can be an effective way to focus our practice time. In the past I have held “Pledge to Play: 10 Minutes A Day”...

📷 by David Holifield Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Overture (Op. 21) for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1826 when he was just...

One of the greatest challenges to us piano players is playing our 3, 4 and 5 fingers consecutively. Because of the way tendons are...

📷 by David Brooke Martin For the last year I have been researching calming, melodic pieces, and Gabriel Fauré’s Romance Sans Paroles...

Happy New Year Friends! I hope this finds you well, and feeling at least somewhat optimistic about 2021. Last year was admittedly...

@HudsonHintz One of my favorite holiday rituals is listening to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Nutcracker Suite. Though we won’t be able to...

To purchase this poster click here You may have heard of the phrase, The Circle of 5ths. It’s a useful tool for musicians to understand,...

I hope you have been getting your creative juices flowing after spending some time improvising on your instrument. If you haven’t yet...

In Upper Hands Piano: BOOK 2 the song Runnin’ Wild (from the film, Some Like It Hot) appears on p. 10 as a “lead sheet” ( just a melody...

©Alexey Arkhipov Dreamstime.com A couple of month ago I posted worksheets for learning bass ledger lines, and this month I wanted to...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Some of my students who have been working through the ledger line worksheets are having trouble figuring out...