Learning to Learn Music
Ken Johansen and Ryan Morison explore the skills behind sight-reading, learning new pieces and how encountering more repertoire can help pianists learn music more effectively. The...
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Ken Johansen and Ryan Morison explore the skills behind sight-reading, learning new pieces and how encountering more repertoire can help pianists learn music more effectively. The...
The Well-Rounded Keyboard Player is a new eight-week programme from Lona Kozik bringing Music Theory, Ear Training, Sight Reading and Keyboard Harmony together through hands-on lea...
What if some of the skills we treat as peripheral to piano playing are actually capable of transforming it? Lona Kozik explores how ear training, harmony, analysis and other aspect...
Much of a pianist’s progress happens between lessons. Explore how online resources, guided courses and specialist insight can complement individual teaching and deliver a richer mu...
A strong sense of rhythm is crucial for guitarists, often overlooked by beginners focused on notes. Practicing with an online metronome and engaging in various exercises, such as s...
Join Graham Fitch for our autumn Practice Clinic on 10 September, featuring practical solutions and fresh approaches to real practising questions submitted by pianists. The post Sl...
When struggling to progress on a piece, consider changing practice habits instead of just playing longer. Focus on difficult sections, slow down to identify mistakes, use a metrono...
Triplets are a hallmark rhythm in all genres of music and can help take your playing to new and exciting places, whether you’re playing lead guitar in a band or composing your own...
William Westney and Ryan Morison explore why we play, what gets in the way and how trust, mistakes and communication can change the way we practise and perform. The post Why We Pla...
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Playing the piano can be enormously rewarding, but progress depends on far more than having lessons and practising. As the Online Academy turns ten, Ryan Morison considers what pia...
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In a hectic modern world, the slow patience and self-discipline of violin practice remind young musicians to slow down and hear the music. The post Learning Violin Remains Part of...
Sitting through an 8-year-old's shaky rendition of Christian Petzold's "Minuet in G" may be music to a proud parent's ear. To everyone else at the recital, it might not sound like...
Ten years ago, the Online Academy began with a simple idea: pianists need support not only in lessons, but in everything that happens between them. Ryan Morison and Graham Fitch lo...
By Ben Chan: My name is Ben Chan, and I'm a longtime violinist who works with AI professionally on a daily basis. I recently had the opportunity to build an AI-powered app for viol...
When something feels difficult at the piano, practising more is not always the answer. Penelope Roskell and Ryan Morison discuss unnecessary effort, hidden technical problems and w...
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How to get your fingers fretboard ready by building your calluses the right way
Jam sessions are greatest fun for jazz musicians and the audience. Yet behind their apparent spontaneity lies one of the most demanding traditions in jazz. Learning the repertoire,...
‘Every great musician begins with a single note, played imperfectly. What matters is practicing with intention, and trusting that discipline and passion, over time, become mastery....
In the music business, who you know matters, but what you do with those connections matters even more. Talent, hard work, and great music are essential, but they don’t automatical...
By Elizabeth Faidley: I was asked to write this blog by about 150 music teachers at a convention, which tells me that apparently we teachers have a problem, when it comes to make-u...
High-quality resources can give us knowledge and understanding, but their transformational potential comes through application. Discover how the Online Academy's interactive worksh...
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