A follow up to my last video “Three Steps to Perfect Piano Posture”, this on shows you how to have perfect posture while you are singing into a microphone. Your back thanks you in advance! Now for the fellow singer-pianists out there, this video is for YOU. Learn my three steps to perfect piano posture for singers …
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Full Voice Podcast
I was delighted to be a guest on Nikki Loney’s amazing Full Voice Podcast. Nikki is a fellow Canadian and is a wonderful singer and voice teacher. She also owns the totally AMAZING company The Full Voice, which is an amazing series of workbooks, songs an resources for voice teachers who work with children. I am such …
3 Steps to Perfect Piano Posture
Today’s tutorial is all about an easy fix to poor posture at the piano. This is a great way to avoid injury and to make the best use of your body at the piano.My biggest pet peeve about people playing piano or sitting at the piano is when they have poor posture. In this post I …
The Transposenator 3000™
Do you need to transpose your music with ease? Many of you commented on my other amazing device that makes transposing many easy: The Handy Dandy Transposition chart. I thought I would see if I could beat it! Maybe you’re a singer who needs to lower key of a song that’s straining your voice. Maybe you’re the …
The Handy-Dandy Transposition Chart
Does the prospect of transposing a melody or chords fill you with panic and dread? I keep wishing someone would build a capo that would work on the piano, but my piano tuner says that wouldn’t quite work. Sigh. After many years of teaching, I have come up with a simple way to transpose music …
There’s More Than One Way to Split the Octave
If you are practicing repeated work like chords, scales, arpeggios, chord progressions or finger exercises, it is useful to practice through all 12 keys in different orders. If you always practice in the same order, then you are leaving out a large part of the skill set in favor of muscle memory. Now, muscle memory can be …