The content in the sites below is well recommended.  
I thank the publishers of the following sites for making their work available freely on-line.

Parents    Students    Instruments    Encyclopedias    Free Scores    Sound Files    Software    AMEB    Research

Learning Links for Parents                                                               

What are the real benefits of piano lessons? ** 

Advice on when your child is ready to begin lessons ** 

How to help your child play and practice at home ** 

The role of the parent in supervising home practice ** 

The Practice Revolution ** 

More advice on practicing ** 
What to do when practicing is getting the student 'nowhere'! **  

PianoNanny free, online, beginner piano lessons (NB. American terms are used) **

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Learning Links for Students

Basic Piano Lessons a resource with some useful articles for older beginners **

Blitz Books, invaluable resources! how to blitz theory and musicianship in the early grades **

Teoria, extremely useful interactive aural training for Rhythm, harmonies, scales and chords as well as theory tutorials **

Good Ear interactive aural training (uses Quicktime) **

Interactive chord decoder ** 

Interactive scale Genie ** 

Scale Chef - print easy to use guides to your set scales ** 

What is effective practice? ** 

Learning the notes of new music ** 

Getting a head start on learning new music ** 

What NOT to do when you get stuck! **

Making scale practice fun - How you SHOULD practice those scales! **  

Get your clone to do your practice?! ** 

Learning piano as an adult ** 

Considering a career in piano? ** 
List of musical terms and definitions ** 
Sound files to help you remember the theory exam memory tunes **

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Instrument Interests and Care

Carlingford Music Centre for music books, instruments and advice ** 

Studio 19 financial provisions for instrument hire-purchase **

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Encyclopedias - About Composers and Music Notation

Piano Street music dictionary ** 

PracticeSpot music dictionary of common terms (great theory help) **  

Piano Society (comprehensive list of composers and biographies) **  

The Classical Music Pages (very useable information - composers, music periods, music forms, works and sound files for opening bars in many classic pieces) ** 

Guitar Files Music Dictionary (list of terms for all types of music) **

Chopin Society (complex analytical study and biography) ** 

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Free Piano Scores

Free Piano Music! (versions of favourites from easiest beginner to intermediate)  ** 

Piano Street (good quality scores - mostly for the advanced student) **  

The Sheet Music Archive (large range of scores from classical composers, download limits=3/day)  ** 

Sheet Music Digital (many favourites for early levels and original scores) **  

Free Classical Sheet Music (good favourite scores, easy to intermediate levels - limited downloads / day) ** 

mFiles (a selection of favourites from beginner to intermediate - some require purchase) **  

Free Scores.com (enormous library of scores for all instruments, most for purchase - it takes some browsing but files are worthwhile - PDF and MP3) **  

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Free Sound Files

Piano Society (good selection of sound files and quality biographies - follow links) **  

Classical Music Archives (highly recommended, enormous selection of quality sound recordings of the works of classical composers - limit 5 downloads/day plus 5 emails or unlimited paid membership; requires registration) ** 

Sheet Music Digital (many favourites to print and listen to - some on purchased membership) **  

Classic Cat (enormous range of downloadable sound files and links to related sites) **  

The Piano Education Site (good selection of files about many composers) **  

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Composition Software

Finale Notepad all the software you need to create and print your own compositions.  ** 

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AMEB Web Site

News and publications from AMEB NSW ** 

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Articles of Interest

Playing on the right side of the brain, in Libretto publication (PDF) ** 

Last modified: October 10, 2009