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how to practice piano.
How to practice piano.
Learn some great tips to practice piano at your home.
http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/single-post/Six-piano-practice-tips

We bring, what we considered, such an interesting and helpful article for all those wondering how to well practice the piano. Our Senior piano teacher, Katarina Makevic, in her last article published at WKMT Blog, gives six tips for when practising […]

what’s Celtic music?
What’s Celtic music?
AN INSIGHT OF CELTIC MUSIC. Story and tradition.
http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/single-post/Celtic-music

New article on the blog for this new year 2018. Our colleague Dominik Brendan, piano and singing teacher at the studio, wrote his article expressing his interest in Celtic music. Music, in general, went through many different changes and variations. In the case of […]

How to write piano accompaniment.
How to write piano accompaniment.

http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/single-post/Piano-accompaniments-Enhancing-our-melodies
MAking a chord progression for piano accompaniments.
We are glad to share the last article published at WKMT and written by Gisela Paterno, our Senior Piano and composition teacher. For this occasion, she brings an article talking about the accompaniments on the piano and creating a simple chord […]

a helpful sight reading exercise.
A helpful sight reading exercise.

http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/single-post/Reading-notes-like-an-open-book

Sight-Reading (or a prima vista) is the performing of a piece of music that the performer has never seen before. In its simplest way, sight-reading is all about notes, because they are what we always see first when we look at a piece of music.

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Analysing musical piece supports teaching
Analysing musical piece supports teaching

Teaching a piece is much more demanding than mastering it. Before a teacher can explain all the aspects of the piece, they need to understand it by themselves. This rule was followed even by the greatest.
If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein

Analysing […]

Sharing your piano skills.
Sharing your piano skills.

WKMT and its Music Festival editions guarantee the perfect performance skills for its students. And about this, the last article talks about.

Sabrina Curpanen, our colleague and Senior piano teacher at the studio, wrote an article to thank all the efforts WKMT makes to provide our piano students with great […]

Learning music analysis
Learning music analysis

Juan Rezzuto has already rendered articles on Sentence and Period. Now it is time to learn about the hybrid themes!

This summary about hybrid themes is based on William Caplin’s Classical forms book. Caplin’s work represents a fantastic summary of forms used in the classical period.

There four basic hybrid themes:

Antecedent – continuation
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Musical Theme type: The period
Musical Theme type: The period

The Period is one of classical music’s more stable theme type. It is characterised by a weak cadence and a returning basic idea.

The phrases involved, called “antecedent” and “consequent” respectively, have a very similar structure. The main difference between each other is harmonical.

The most important elements of […]

Learning piano structurally.
Learning piano structurally.

WKMT proud to introduce a new educational system under the standards of the Scaramuzza technique and the experience we have in teaching students of all levels and ages.

The new course for absolute beginners designed by Gisela Paterno for WKMT is the new platform we will be using for our beginner piano students. An online system easily […]

Understanding musical Themes.
Understanding musical Themes.

To be able to understand musical themes, first of all, we have to know what a musical theme, by its own definition, really is and for that purpose, we only need one simple word called ‘Melody’. The musical theme is the theme, melody that is announced in the first measures. The […]