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Piano for Returning Players: Starting Again After Years Away
You played for six years as a child and stopped at fifteen. Twenty years later you sit down, expect your hands to remember, and...
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Best Piano for Small Hands: What Actually Fits
Small hands are usually described as a limitation, and on most instruments they are simply a fact.
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How Many Keys Does a Child Need on a Piano?
Sixty-one or eighty-eight is the first question most parents ask and one of the least important, because a child who plays ten minutes a...
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How Long Should a Child Practise Piano or Drums?
Parents ask for a number, and the honest answer is that the number matters less than what happens inside it.
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Why Do My Hands Hurt When Playing Piano?
The ache arrives in the outer fingers first, usually twenty minutes into a session, and it is easy to conclude that your hands are...
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Digital Piano Warranty: What Is Covered and What Is Not
A warranty is only useful if you know what it says before something goes wrong.
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Buying a Used Digital Piano: What to Check Before You Pay
A used digital piano can be the best value in the market or a paperweight with a nice cabinet.
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Upright vs Portable Digital Piano: Choosing the Shape
The two shapes are called upright and portable, but the difference that matters is not weight.
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What Is a Hybrid Piano? And Do You Need One?
A hybrid piano is not a marketing word for a good digital piano.
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How to Play Piano with Both Hands
Each hand works on its own. The moment you put them together, both forget what they were doing.
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Left Hand Piano for Beginners: Catching Up the Quiet Hand
Almost every beginner has one hand that works and one that follows.
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Piano Scales for Beginners: How to Practise Them Without Boredom
Scales have a reputation problem.
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Piano Finger Numbers: What They Mean and When to Follow Them
The small numbers above the notes are the least glamorous part of printed music and the one beginners most often ignore.
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The ONE Polaris Drum Set Review: TOD1 Mesh Kit with Lights
Most electronic drum kits are sold on the sound library.
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InstaDrum App Guide: What It Does and How It Works with the Kit
Electronic drums have one advantage over every other instrument in the house: the kit can see exactly what was played.
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Electronic Drum Set Setup: Placement, Heights and First Checks
A drum kit is the only instrument that has to be assembled around a person rather than placed in front of one.
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Drumsticks for Beginners: Sizes, Tips and What to Buy First
Drumsticks are the cheapest thing a drummer buys and the thing they are most likely to buy wrongly, because the label on the stick...
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Drum Throne Height and Posture: Setting Up to Play Without Pain
Drumming looks like an activity done with the arms. It is actually done from the seat, and almost every posture problem in a beginner's...
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How to Read Drum Notation: A Beginner's Guide to the Kit on the Page
Drum notation confuses guitarists and pianists for a good reason. On those instruments a higher note means a higher pitch.
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Piano App vs Piano Teacher: What Each One Actually Does
The comparison is usually framed as a contest, and that framing is the reason so many adults end up with neither. An app and...
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How to Practise with a Metronome Without Making Your Playing Worse
The metronome is the cheapest practice tool in music and the most misused. Used properly it tells you the truth about your timing.
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Piano Practice Mistakes Beginners Make, and How to Stop Making Them
Two players can spend exactly the same number of hours at a piano and end up a year apart.
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What Is Sight Reading? A Practical Definition for Piano Players
Sight reading is the piano skill that cannot be crammed and cannot be faked.
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music: The Order to Learn It In
Reading music looks like one skill and is actually four, and trying to learn them all at once is why so many beginners give...
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