There are a lot of scales, not to mention arpeggios, broken chord patterns to practice, especially as you progress in your musical...

When you go to practice scales, you will find that there are lots of them. Each note has more than 2 different types of scales that start...

Scales and arpeggio are great exercises to do on the flute. Not only will they help you with understanding the key pieces of music are...

There are different schools of thought on the best way to introduce scales for beginners. You can either teach the C major scale first or...

Scales (and arpeggios), love them or hate them. They play a big part in musicians learning and life. For a long time when I was first...

It has been another busy term for Rachael Inwood Music. With a full schedule of piano and flute students, a couple of great grade one...

I’ve already discussed how music changes your brain and how it can make you smarter. But music can do so much more. This blog post looks...

Learning a musical instrument does a lot more than changing the shape of your brain (see my previous blog). It can also help to make you...

Playing a musical instrument is a wonderful thing to do. Not only is it an enjoyable activity to do it, but it also has some surprising...

In my previous posts on Music Performance Anxiety, I explain some physical symptoms and how to deal with them. One important thing that...

Everybody will have to deal with nerves at some point in their lives, when they have to give any kind of performance, whether that is a...

You are about to go on stage, but your stomach in knots. Your heart is racing, you don’t think it's possible for it to beat that fast....

We cannot escape music. It brings us joy and helps us reach places emotionally we otherwise might not. Learning an instrument should be...

There has been loads going for me this term. Here is a quick summary of what I have been up to. I’ve been very busy teaching. I had three...

Your child has started learning an instrument! You are paying out large sums of money for your child to learn that instrument, not to...

In your instrumental lesson, it is easy to know what to do, because you have your teacher sitting next to guide you in what to do. But...

There are 10080 minutes a week. If you have a 30-minute instrumental lesson, that means there are 10050 minutes when you are not playing...

Last Saturday I took a trip to London to attend the annual ABRSM Teacher's conference. It was a good day, a chance to meet up with...

This is the final post in this series in teaching beginners. Teaching a child to read music cannot be rushed. If a child starts to play...

Following on from my previous post on why learning music is like learning a language. This post will explain one way I approach learning...