Pianodao Articles

Andrew Eales writes about piano playing and teaching in depth, exploring a wide range of important topics.

Explore Key Topics

Researched with care, written to support and encourage, and shared freely to promote better practice, playing, and teaching, you can delve into Pianodao’s extensive archive of informative articles and inspiring posts by topic:

Shorter Blog Posts

The Fermata Series of shorter blog posts expand on the site’s Key Topics, and encourage readers to pause and reflect on the intersections between our playing, teaching and wellbeing.

The series particularly applies the wisdom and wellbeing practices of daoist philosophy and qigong, encouraging piano players and teachers to attain and promote better physical and mental health, so that instead of just surviving, we’re thriving!

Fermata • The Pianodao Blog

In music, the fermata sign is an indication that we should pause for a moment before playing on. The Fermata Series similarly invites you to pause, and consider big ideas in short, reflective blog posts.

Hot off the press

For those who like to stay on top of the latest additions to the site’s content, these are the latest articles and blog posts to appear on Pianodao:

Spring Repertoire Project

There’s perhaps no better time than the Spring months for embarking on exciting new piano projects, but let’s also remember to give our perennial ‘Active Repertoire’ a timely spring clean…

Patience: The Greater Peak

Much is made of the benefits of learning to play a musical instrument, and rightly so. But perhaps the greatest of all these is this: the pinnacle of developing patience. Are those eager to progress as quickly as possible in danger of missing the point?