Inventing Music at the Keyboard is a new resource designed to help beginner pianists move beyond simply playing notes toward understanding how music works from the inside out. Built around scales, intervals, listening, and creative exploration, the series aims to cultivate musical fluency, improvisation, and compositional confidence from the very beginning.

Many great classical composers improvised, composed, and understood music as a living language. This post explores how partimenti can reconnect modern musicians with that fluency, bridging theory, repertoire, improvisation, and creative practice.

Play isn’t the opposite of serious musical study — it’s often what makes real learning possible. This post reflects on how musical play, structured by simple rules, can unlock creativity, deepen understanding, and make music-making feel alive again.