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Young children are very easy to introduce to jazz because they have no inhibitions about playing the "wrong" notes like us adults. Having learnt through the grade system when I was a child I am competely crippled when it comes to improvisation. For this reason I try very hard to expose my ...

There are different qualities of digital piano - if you have one with weighted keys then you are at least learning the touch associated with volume control. What you will find impossible to learn is the different kinds of touch required to achieve different tone control, cantabile vs detached and fo...

The danger with allowing a choice between sight-reading and memorising is that those who are not good at sight-reading will never choose that option, and so will never get better at it. I have found with my pupils as others have said that those who are good at sight-reading are not good at memorisin...