Creative Practice No. 1: "Love Me Tender"

Stop playing notes. Start creating your own musical moments.

Do you wish your piano practice felt more playful?
Do you want to simply sit down and play, without needing sheet music?

Many pianists feel stuck reproducing what’s written on the page.
If you’re longing to express something of your own but don’t know where to begin, this course is for you.

Love Me Tender offers a spacious, simple musical world in which to explore limitation, repetition, colour and listening.

Three courses, three musical worlds

The Creative Practice courses are not a sequence — you don't need to take them in order.

Each course uses a different piece as a creative playground, offering a different musical character and its own creative challenges.The same six-step approach gives you a familiar path into improvisation, while the music invites you to explore something new each time.  

Choose the piece that speaks to you, and begin there.

What you’ll explore:

In this course, you’ll learn how to make a blank keyboard feel inviting and easy to explore. Using “Love Me Tender” as our musical starting point, I’ll gently guide you toward creating your own music—step by step.


We won’t focus on theory or fast fingers.
Instead, you’ll learn a simple, intuitive “recipe” of 6 steps that unlocks your creative voice.

The 6 Steps to Musical Flow

  Each lesson follows a clear and repeatable process:      
Arrive — settle into the sound    
Explore — discover simple note choices    
Shape — create a small musical idea    
Expand — develop your idea further    
Awaken — bring movement and variation    
Flow — play freely and intuitively

Through improvising you will discover: 


The Power of Limitation

Why starting with just three notes can open the door to true musical freedom.

Motif Building

How to create a small “musical seed” that brings structure, coherence, and meaning to your playing.

The “Poetic” Note

How and where to use a single black key (A♭) to add color, depth, and emotional tension.

The Flow 

A gentle, guided approach to quieting the mind and truly listening to the sounds you create.

Each of the six steps includes two videos and a PDF, so you can see and hear an idea before exploring it at the piano.
Take your time with each step, and return to it whenever you wish.
A backing track and optional left-hand variations let you practise the material with different accompaniment patterns.

What makes each course different?

The six-step process remains the same, but the musical challenges change.

Love Me Tender — space, simplicity and colour
Greensleeves — melody, movement and harmonic tension
Small Wonders — developing and transforming your own ideas

This is not a “copy my fingers” tutorial.
It’s an invitation to explore your own imagination.
By the end of this self-paced course, you won’t just have played something…

you’ll have created a moment that is entirely yours.

Who this is for

This course is designed for players with at least two years of piano experience who feel comfortable with basic hand coordination and reading notation.

 If you are earlier in your journey or still find hand coordination challenging, you are welcome to choose the course option with 1:1 sessions. We can go through the steps together and adjust the exercises to your current technique.

Course Pricing

Full Self-Paced Course

€35

    • A simple arrangement of Love Me Tender
    • A guided 6-step improvisation process (video + PDF)
    • A backing track to practice
    • Optional left-hand variations
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Full Course + Personal Feedback

€89

  • Two 30 min 1:1 Sessions (limited to 10 students)

    • Full course access (all 6 steps and bonus materials)
    • Two 30-minute 1:1 sessions, with asynchronous video feedback available
    • Live zoom sessions are held between 9:00 and 15:00 Paris time (CET)
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First release edition (In Exchange for Feedback)

€21

  • Feedback Tier (Limited to 10 Students)

    • Steps 1–3 of Love me Tender
    • PDFs, guides, examples, and backing tracks
    • Submit brief feedback after Step 3
    • Steps 4–6 and bonus unlock after feedback
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Would you like to explore all three?

Discover three different musical worlds through the same six-step approach.

€89 instead of €105