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A reflection on sharps and flats while working on Scriabin and Granados, and how notation can quietly shape musical imagination.

What does it mean to listen like a composer? This reflection explores interpretation, harmony, and musical perception through the experience of playing Granados’s Goyescas. It looks at how listening to harmony and sound from within the music can reveal the core of a piece, beyond theory and analysis.

A reflection on arm movement, joints, and fingertip-led motion in piano playing. This post explores body mapping and piano technique through the structure of the body, focusing on how movement is organized from the smallest muscles outward.

A lesson-based reflection on how technical problems in piano playing often arise not from lack of practice, but from a mismatch between thinking, visual perception, and movement—and how clarity can allow coordination to reorganize naturally.

A personal reflection on Enrique Granados as a teacher, exploring how his approach to interpretation, emotion, and pedagogy resonates with lived musical experience.

Technique does not begin at the keyboard. It begins with preparing the body.

When children learn through enjoyment and experience, playing at home becomes meaningful practice. A perspective on learning, development, and why forcing practice often backfires.

What if playing the piano isn’t about pushing keys down, but about how lightly we place our hands on them? A closer look at weight, touch, and unnecessary tension.

What we believe about technique shapes everything that follows.