Jack Mitchell Smith

Help your piano playing by learning how to incorporate discipline into your practice sessions, making you an all round better musician!

Have you made a New Year's Resolution yet? As pianists, we ought to focus on very specific ones to keep us going. Read on for inspiration...

The age old debate of whether or not we need to commit our music to memory is explored. It certainly has its pros...let's discuss!

In this blog I explore the three common forms of minor scale that you will need to understand and perform as a pianist.

Do you need to practice? Yes. Are you in the mood to practice? No? Is that just tough luck or should we take heed? I investigate...

It can seem quite baffling that we need advice on how to practice. But so many of us get it wrong. Read on for some useful tips...

I can play Mozart's complete Fantasia in C Minor (Köchel No. 475) now! Watch my video and read about how I perfected my final performance!

I developed a few exercises to help a pupil progress their treble clef sight reading, and rather than waste them, here I am sharing them!

A quick guide to finding chords and understanding them better.

I believe I've cracked it after all my practicing! Keyboard Sonata in D Minor by Domenico Scarlatti.

I have been committing a few pieces to memory lately. Here are some tips and tricks if you need to do so...

More progress on Scarlatti's sonata. I can now play the whole piece without music, so just a case of refreshing those semiquavers!

Sometimes I wonder if the pain is worth the gain on piano. I believe so, but hear me out...

'Piú Allegro' is coming together nicely, and in context it's wonderful as I have reached the end of the Fantasia in C Minor.

More progress on Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata...

I feel like I've made enormous progress on 'I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise' by George Gershwin. See for yourselves!

How to you play a Sibelius Symphony on the piano? Read on to find out how I achieved this particular movement...

When is the best time to practice with a metronome? Here are some tWhen is the best time to practice with a metronome? Here are some tips...

This week I've been practicing more in depth the allegro passages of the first movement of 'Pathétique' - 'Allegro Molto e Con Brio'.

Our best friend on the piano may actually be compromising how good a pianist we really are! Read on to find out more on how we should pedal.