by Doug Hanvey | March 4, 2023 | General
Recently, Pete Jutras, Professor of Piano at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia, spoke with me about the benefits and challenges of learning piano as an adult. Pete is well-known in the piano teaching community for his research on adult...
by Doug Hanvey | March 20, 2022 | General
Recently, recreational music making (RMM) trailblazer Brenda Dillon generously spoke with me for over two hours. In the first part of our conversation, we spoke about the distinctions between RMM and traditional piano teaching, the challenges of teaching adults, and...
by Doug Hanvey | March 6, 2022 | Learning Piano
If you’ve never studied a musical instrument, you might not know that the “traditional” approach to learning piano, and one still experienced by many children, is focused on 3 Ps: Perfection + Performance in order to eventually become (if the stars align) … a...
