Learn to Play the Piano Make Music
Piano, music theory and flute teacher in Droitwich, Worcestershire, tuition for adults and children, beginners welcome. Piano age 3 to adult, flute from age 6 to adult.
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• Piano, flute and theory tuition
• Piano: age 4 to adult Flute: age 6 to adult
• Lessons face-to-face in Droitwich or online
• Children and adults
• Beginners welcome
• Some daytime, after-school and evening places available
• Current clear Enhanced DBS check (formerly CRB)
• Free initial meeting (non-tutorial and no obligation to book any lessons)
• Trial lesson (charged at usual rate)
• 14-day ‘cooling-off’ period
Tel: (01905) 773094
My teaching: I specialise in teaching beginners and also teach more advanced pupils. I aim to lay good foundations of technique, musicianship and notation-reading to enable pupils to play well and enjoy their playing.
I also use musical games to enable pupils to learn while having fun.
My pupils may may enter festivals / take exams (one of my pupils achieved the exceptionally high mark of 140 out of a possible 150 for her grade 1) but do not have to.
I am also willing and able to help pupils prepare for eg. cub badges etc. and I have experience of teaching teenage pupils who learn an instrument as part of their Duke Of Edinburgh awards.
Biography: I have been involved with music from an early age, at school and in youth orchestras. After gaining ‘A’ Level music at NEW College, Bromsgrove and being awarded ABRSM’s Laura Marco prize for the highest Grade 8 flute mark of the year in the country, I studied flute and piano at music college, full time (Welsh College Of Music And Drama, Cardiff where I was awarded the Principal’s Prize, and a postgraduate year at Trinity College Of Music, London), achieving two graduate-level performance diplomas. I have been a visiting instrumental teacher at two schools and also have experience of teaching adults.
I maintain a very keen interest in classical music, playing in local concerts as soloist and as chamber musician and attending concerts and masterclasses. I enjoy collecting sheet music and books on music. I am an Associate member of EPTA (European Piano Teachers’ Association).
I also hold pupils' concerts.
Disclosure and Barring Service: Yes
Qualification: LTCL(FlP), LWCMD(FlP), AMEPTA, Grade 8 piano (distinction)
Disclosure and Barring Service: Yes
Qualification: LTCL(FlP), LWCMD(FlP), AMEPTA, Grade 8 piano (distinction)
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Tuning Temperaments
How many piano tuning temperaments are there?
There are countless variations, but most fall within three major categories;
1. Meantone, which generally concentrated the dissonance into a few unusable intervals (often called "wolf" intervals), so that the others could be Just. These are often called "restrictive" tunings, since there are certain intervals that are not usable. Good intervals are really good, bad ones are really bad. The Meantone era was approx. 1400-1700
2. Well-Temperament, which gives more consonance to the most often used keys, and more dissonance to the lesser used ones. Though not equal, these tunings are "non-restrictive" because all intervals can be used. The intervals range from Just to barely acceptable. Well-temperament refers to a genre, not a specific tuning. The Well-Tempered era is approx. 1700-1880.
3. Equal Temperament, which spreads the dissonance equally among all intervals.
There is no difference in consonance or dissonance between any keys, thus, there are no good ones or bad ones. Equal temperament represents a complete average. Dates of its acceptance are debated, but there is ample evidence that it was widely available by 1900 and is the predominate tuning on keyboards, today.
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