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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.
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Music is more than entertainment, it carries the performer and listener beyond the structures of time, and classical music immerses us in the genius of some of humanity’s greatest minds, and makes them part of our own experience.
“A truly cultured and sensitive artist” – Henryk Szeryng (violin virtuoso)
“Joe has taught music theory and piano to my daughter since she was eight-years old. With great skill, infinite patience, and generous emotional support, Joe has developed the skills of a reticent beginner into that of a blossoming Musician.”
Who It’s For
Professional Pianists and Musicians • Teachers • Students of any Level
How It Benefits You
- Overcome obstacles to your playing.
- Receive step-by step-procedures of getting from an idea to a detailed end result.
- Gain an understanding of the body’s role in performing.
- Hear what you’re producing and what’s really happening in the music.
- Learn to evoke, sublimate, and control emotions for optimum performance.
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 embodies 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 has made Joe a true virtuoso as a pianist and teacher.
“His ability to get results with students at all levels is truly amazing; he is universally loved” (Norman Derby, Dean, Bennington College)
“His breadth and depth of music and performance skills is phenomenal. His patient persistence brings out the best in us – gives us confidence where there may be too little, and stretches our limits. He never settles for less when he knows he can get more, doing it gently and with kindness.” (Dr. Margaret Harrington)
Latest From the Blog
Joe Bloom
“CLUSTER” OF SMALL ENTRIES
November 18,2020
1. SPEAKING OR SINGING THROUGH ORNAMENTS
Singing, enthusiastically, any upcoming ornament, just before I play is frees my body to execute the ornament in a very clean and clear way. Whatever it was I captured (more easily) by singing it carried over into my physical piano playing moments later. We know how to use our voice, singing or speaking, to express the shape of a phrase, the rhythm of a phrase, the emotion of a phrase. This comes naturally to us, even if we have the worst singing voice in the world.
Read MoreSPEAKING OR SINGING THROUGH ORNAMENTS
November 14,2020
Singing, enthusiastically, any upcoming ornament, just before i play is frees my body to execute the ornament in a very clean and clear way. Whatever it was I captured (more easily) by singing it carried over into my physical piano playing moments later. We know how to use our voice, singing or speaking, to express the shape of a phrase, the rhythm of a phrase, the emotion of a phrase. This comes naturally to us, even if we have the worst singing voice in the world.
This sing-then-play procedure can be extrapolated beyond just ornaments, and any next note, or coming up notes, chords; to the feeling of any next emphasis of the beat. IT is as if we are singing, identically, twice in a row. Only in one case, we activate our vocal chords and in the second case, we activate the piano keys.
Read MoreTHE FLAP IN THE PALM
November 09,2020
The longest and the strongest mechanism within the hand as a whole.
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