by Doug Hanvey | March 18, 2023 | General
Table of Contents 2 3 FirstHeadingTypes of Digital PianosAppearancePurposeSound SourcePortabilityAcoustic ElementsThe Four Types of Digital PianosBuying ConsiderationsAction and SoundActionSoundFeatures and AppearanceFeaturesUSB PortMetronomeRecorderOther...
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 | January 23, 2022 | Learning Piano
Learn How to Practice There are incredibly useful practice strategies and procedures that few teachers explicitly teach. I learned many of them through reading books and trial and error. (These strategies that can save you hundreds or thousands of hours of practice...
by Doug Hanvey | January 9, 2022 | Learning Piano
Using Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer as a yardstick, take a moment to traverse the history of keyboard instruments and learn why the piano became the supreme keyboard instrument. 300 BCE – The first keyboard, a kind of pipe organ, is invented in Ancient Greece....
