PianEasy

The Accidental Pianist is about learning itself.

The piano remains the laboratory where most of these ideas are tested, but the conversation regularly wanders much further afield. Through stories, discoveries, experiments and the occasional rabbit hole, I explore the psychology of learning, the habits and strategies that make progress feel almost inevitable, and the surprisingly simple ideas that can transform the way we acquire new skills.

Sometimes those ideas are explored through language learning, which has accompanied my moves first to France and now to Portugal. Sometimes they’re explored through new instruments (my latest acquisitions are a violin and a saxophone). Sometimes they emerge through filmmaking, composition and sport. Whatever the subject, the underlying themes are usually the same: attention, focus, practice, process, muscle memory, targeted repetition, retention, and the remarkable ability of the brain and body to learn, adapt and refine.

Most recently, my curiosity found a new outlet in darts. After becoming completely captivated by the World Championship—particularly the emergence of sixteen-year-old Luke Littler—I found myself wondering how such extraordinary precision is built. How does muscle memory become so reliable that the body simply repeats the correct movement under pressure? Inevitably, I bought a proper darts board and began another experiment: how far can deliberate practice, strategic repetition and patient attention take a complete beginner in a seemingly unrelated skill?

You’ll also find the occasional behind-the-scenes glimpse of PianEasy as it develops, together with announcements of new tutorials, additions to the Library, Foundations Course updates, retreat dates, and whatever experiment has most recently captured my curiosity.

If you’re fascinated not just by the piano, but by the process of learning itself, this is for you.