Hello Piano Lovers: blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Today I’d like to delve further into the question, why should we improvise? Firstly, if you...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Dear Piano Friends: Today I would like to begin exploring the possibility of you improvising. Don’t panic. A...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Today I saw the film, Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore as a 50-year-old professor suffering from a rare type...

Recent studies showing how the brain acquires and stores new information can revolutionize our practice habits. Using these new findings,...

blog.upperhandspiano.com I have a brilliant former student named Brendan Cohn-Sheehy with whom I consult on my music and the brain...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Sadness is an inevitable part of life. Though we sometimes wish we could be happy all of the time, it is moments...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Why would we want to listen to angry music? When we’re feeling mad we want to connect with something that...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Some music just puts a smile on your face. Whether you need cheering up or whether you just want to hear music...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Dear Friends: I sometimes turn to moving music to get me through a difficult time, or to reflect my feelings of...

UpperHandsPIano.com/blog Today I would like to talk about musical endings. In his wonderful book Things I Overheard While Talking To...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Part of being mindful in our lives is taking the time to think about how we will begin and end things. When I...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com The latest food studies show that WALNUTS are at the top of the list of “brain foods.” Researchers at the David...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com If you study piano with me, you learn and practice chords. Chords are the foundation of all music (except for...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Today I am continuing on with some of the lessons I learned from my piano teacher, Mildred Portney Chase, and...

Invisibilia On Friday NPR premiered a new show called Invisibilia, “…a series about the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” This...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com Today I want to show you a new exercise I have adapted from an exercise by Theodore Leschetizky [lesh-uh–tit-ske...

blog.UpperHandsPiano.com One day when I was perusing a charming used book shop in London, I came upon this prize of a book, written in...

Pledge To Play 10 Minutes A Day Today we start our pledge to play 10 minutes a day, for 30 days. Even if you can’t commit to playing...

UpperHandsPiano.com/blog Dear Piano Lovers! I love that January is the time of year for new goals and added resolve. If you are reading...

blog.upperhandspiano.com The NY Times recently ran an article called “Is Music The Key To Success?” The author, Joanne Lipman showed that...