Hello Reader, This Sunday I had piano workshop for my in real life students. We've been meeting together every month since 2020. A milestone: one performer said they loved how another made the silences part of the music. That one comment opened a whole conversation — about how actors use silence to further the drama, about concerts that teach you to listen differently (Víkingur Ólafsson), and about how Chopin Nocturnes we played in high school feel completely different now that we’ve lived...

Hello Reader, Last week’s question ("if you could fix one thing in your piano playing overnight, what would it be?") really lit up my inbox. I was excited because it felt like a real two way conversation, not me shouting into a void. Clear themes jumped out. The most frequent one (which surprised me) was sightreading. I'm releasing a video on that this week, so watch your inbox.And here's some help for the most popular wishes. Click the link to see my video on each one. 1. Practicing that...

Hi Reader, Rolled chords shouldn’t feel like yoga. I just posted a new 3-minute clip from a live Q&A inside Piano with Rebecca B. showing the body setup that stops stretching and makes your chords ring clean. You’ll hear the before/after and think, there it is.Doors are open now and close tomorrow, Saturday, at 6 a.m. PDT—then it’s waitlist only and the free trial disappears. If you’re not a member yet, this is exactly what you get inside Piano with Rebecca B: a time-stamped, indexed library...