Fergus Black of John Clare School talks about his experience teaching music online over the past year.

This page is a note about how I teach students how to practise. What areas they should include and what technique can help them improve pieces they are learning.

One thing, often overlooked for online lessons is that both the teacher and student need a copy of the same edition of the same music. But singers need still more.

There was a while when I felt obliged to make recordings for students, to help them learn new pieces. But now, there is a wealth of professional material available through YouTube

It seems to me that there are two problems with ornaments: technical and visual. The technical aspect is not just that students can't get their fingers around ornaments on the piano