36 episodes
Heart of the Piano Podcast Bob Rose
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4.8 • 6 Ratings
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Passionate, irreverent and often opinionated discussions on all things piano related as well as interviews, news, tips and reviews.
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Pianogate discussion- exploring the controversy around my YouTube video about pianist Brendan 'Dr K' Kavanagh
We discuss the Pianogate drama - an international incident at St Pancras Station in London where Boogie Woogie live streamer Brendan Kavanagh stood his ground against some pushy Chinese communists. The resulting video went internationally viral and turned 'Dr K' into a hero of the people. But I wondered if the Chinese film crew might have had some valid points with some issues that make me uneasy about how 'Dr K' runs his YouTube enterprise.
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Interview with Tim Topham: legend of the piano education community!
Tim Topham is a legend in the piano education world, his podcast "The Integrated Music Teaching Podcast" is a who's who of the most interesting & creative piano educators. It was a huge honour to chat to Tim about his new book which advocates and provides a framework for delaying reading music with beginner piano students.
This episode is not just for piano teachers though, I'm sure everybody will be interested in our chat which includes topics such as common preventable weaknesses that most piano students have, the history of improvisation and freedom from the written note in classical music, the problem with method books, and more... -
Trinity 2023 Piano Syllabus Review Part 2- the individual grades with audio clips from the official recordings
Check the shownotes for timings if you just want to listen to the review for one particular grade
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Decolonising Piano Education... the radical new Trinity Piano Syllabus- and unpacking the many cans of unleashed worms
The most radical and indispensable piano syllabus ever! This will either be incredibly exciting for piano teachers & students- or highly controversial. Either way, it’s a must-own. In this episode I discuss some of the many controversial issues that this new syllabus raises, and give you a detailed verdict on these new books. Part two will review the individual grades.
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Tension & Release- we discuss the #5 psychological skill you need to practise at the piano to be deeply musical
Cheryl is back for a masterclass on how awareness of musical tension and release can make huge changes to our playing, and demonstrates that we absolutely need to learn to learn to feel it in the body before we can successfully apply it to our piano playing
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We discuss the 4 most important psychological skills you need to practise at the piano to be deeply musical
My friend Cheryl is back to chat about and get a deeper understanding of the practical ways in which we can become truly great pianists by bringing the psychological skills I've demonstrated in recent episodes into our learning and practising
Customer Reviews
Episode 4 on piano performance
I suffer from pretty bad piano performance anxiety and have been searching for ways to help me over come my frar and become a better performer. This episode was incredibly helpful! Thank you so much. Look forward to listening to more!
best podcast ever!!!!!
I love this podcast. I've been looking for a way to meditate combined with piano for a while and I finally found a great podcast. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. It helps so much!!!! Learning and playing piano has been a great healing hobby for me and the fact that I can combine it with meditation will be an even better helpful tool for me. Thanks again.
Very nice addition to the “ how to learn piano” topic
I’ve only heard episodes 2 through 4 but so far it seems to fill a very nice niche: it’s like a master class but instead of you witnessing lessons where someone is polishing a mostly finished work, here they focus on everything that leads up to that “finished” work: arguably the more important part: all the practicing and preparation. Hardly any actual music at all, rather detailed discussions focusing on exactly how you could learn a given piece or section, strategies and tactical ideas, going over basically everything that leads up to a performance. The teacher is clearly very experienced. The holistic approach means it ends up more than a little bit “new-age”-y in case that sort of thing bothers you. Also like a master class it is conversational, and not highly scripted or prepared.