Good piano technique is not a visual demonstration of beautiful or “correct” hand movements. Good technique is the skilled production of musical sound. It is an understanding and an imagining of sound variations.

“It makes no difference if a piano key is hit by a finger, fist or an umbrella.” Should our students have digital pianos? Should we turn students away if they don’t have access to an acoustic piano? Are we elitists on one side or poorly educated on the other?

Several years ago I stopped teaching my students to clap rhythm values. Instead we learn pulse and the rhythm gets layered on top . . .

Teaching piano technique cannot be ignored for the weeks or months that we might have to have lessons this way. I’m having to be inventive and I found a couple of tricks that are actually really helping