A pianist’s guide to effective warm-ups

If you’re reading this article you could be either of two types of pianists during a warm-up: someone who always warms up but never knows whether it's effective or not. Or someone who skips it entirely because they don't think it's necessary or know how to approach it. An effective warm-up is the key to any successful practise session. My music teacher always told me that the way you warm-up is a foreshadowing of how well the rest of the practise will look like. Now although it might not always be the case, I still fully believe her words prove true [...]