What Do All Great Pianists Have In Common?

How does one become a great pianist? Surely a question as old as the instrument itself. Is it something we are born with? Something we learn to do? Something we have to do? Or is it a combination of things? When we began researching famous pianists and what they have in common, we expected to…

Meet the World’s Most Extreme Pianists

So by now you know that the piano can be crazy, and that pianists are not necessarily the stereotypical nerds pop-culture has deemed them to be. But today, we’d like to take you a step further than that. Today, we’d like to prove that not only are pianists not nerds, but some of them are downright…

7 Piano Myths… Busted

One of the most valid ways to check if something is important or of any significance to the outside world is whether or not myths have been created about it. Luckily for the piano, it can check this feat off of its bucket list, because there are loads of them out there. Ranging from myths…

How Does Playing the Piano Make You Smarter?

When it comes down to it, we all want one thing – benefits. Yes, benefits. We all have that perennial question wondering if our time spent doing something will benefit us today, tomorrow or later in life. There is nothing worse than feeling like you’re spending countless hours of your time doing something which won’t…

Meet the 5 Youngest Piano Prodigies

The piano has long been a magical instrument, of which many people spend their entire lives honing. However, some are born with the natural gift to piano play properly, and in any style. When someone like this emerges into the musical scene, they are usually quite quickly known as a prodigy – it’s quite easy…