Welcome to the
Piano Project!
A platform for the teaching and ideas of pianist, teacher, and composer, Joe Bloom.
The map to a deeper connection in your musical life.
How To Use The Site
- Explore the Video Collection to eavesdrop on lessons in which real students work on real issues in real time.
- Check out Joe’s Blog to get more insight on specific issues, ranging from body tension to Joe’s insights on the best recorded performances.
About Joe
Joe Bloom (1947-2021) embodied a unique understanding of the deepest traditions of Western Classical Music. His background, his own pianistic gifts, and a lifetime of teaching, performing, and accumulating tens of thousands of pages of notes on piano technique and musicality made Joe a true virtuoso as a pianist and teacher.
Latest From the Blog
Joe Bloom
In Memoriam
February 25,2022
Please leave your comments in memory of Joe at the bottom of the page.
Joe’s Obituary
Read More“Dissociation” as a virtue
November 23,2021
Happy Thanksgiving
Practice notes for 11/23/21
Read MoreNotes on the Thumbs
November 21,2021
The thumb has always been my bete noire. Always a problem to me. Short, stumpy, ‘unworthy’ to join in with the other fingers, as in scales and chords. I’ve spent many years trying to come up with one solution after another to cope with the shortness of my thumb, “short” of, that is, putting my thumb on a rack and stretching it.
Here is what I have come up with today in the next chapter of my ongoing question to tame the thumbs.
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