It’s time to play with confidence!
Written by ANDREW EALES
The Active Repertoire Project continues to help piano players around the world build fluency in their playing and the confidence to share their music with others.
Continue reading The Active Repertoire Challenge 2023It’s time to play with confidence!
Written by ANDREW EALES
Guest Post by Joni Hawkes
The recent articles on Active Repertoire on Pianodao have struck a chord with me … quite literally.
As an adult beginner into my third year of lessons, I have often found myself avoiding situations where I might be asked to play something, because I simply couldn’t play anything spontaneously without my trusty sheet music to hand.
The more pieces that I learned, the more they were becoming just a growing collection of stuff I couldn’t play.
The concept of Active Repertoire (always having 3 pieces that I enjoy playing, without notice, without embarrassment and without notation) has completely changed my approach to playing.
I now start every practice session by playing my 3 favourite pieces, and whilst I still have the book in front of me, I’m finding that with each session I’m increasingly looking away from the music as I play.
Continue reading Active Repertoire: An Adult Student’s PerspectiveSupporting Your Piano Playing Journey
Written by ANDREW EALES
Since writing my article What can you play? readers have shown quite an interest in the concept of Active Repertoire.
In this article I explain a little more about how Active Repertoire fits into the wider picture of your piano journey.
Continue reading Three types of RepertoireSupporting Your Piano Playing Journey
Written by ANDREW EALES
One of the major stumbling blocks for players is that we too often feel that we are struggling, making little progress, and perhaps just haven’t got what it takes to become a “good player” (however we define what that is).
To enjoy playing an instrument, we need to move beyond this negative self-talk. And I suggest that one of the most easy and powerful ways we can achieve this is to adjust the balance between working and playing during our personal piano time.
Which brings us to the question,
Continue reading What Can You Play?“What can you play?”
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