Bill Hilton 🇺🇦

I create stuff for adult piano learners. I'm especially interested in finding effective, low-cost ways in which older adults can develop their musical skills.

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

After four years of disruption, delay, faffing about and a lot of swearing at the toaster, I'm delighted to announce my new book, How To Be A Better Musician, is finally available. It's digital-only for now: print edition coming in 2023. Find out more at https://t.co/IWCditmfkZ!

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@ladychatterley Thanks to my mother-in-law we've already tested all the major brands of mince pie. I think we started in early August, or possibly it was late July.

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@CursoryB Evening! Not that I'm aware of, and it does seem risky, but Jeff is always worth listening to on this kind of thing — I'll ponder it...!

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@RichardBratby @Klassical_Kat Assuming it's a dial-a-yield jobbie then I'd imagine their risk assessment requires them to keep it on a low setting. That way if there are any mishaps it's only Wolverhampton that gets a bit zapped rather than the whole West Midlands.

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@DeusIX_imxn Make the power of whole body fit inside one finger!

[DeusIX @DeusIX_imxn]

Just started @billhilton 's Piano for Beginners series.
Got stuck in lesson 2 lvl1. I'm so bad in sight reading! 😅

[Patrick Allies @PatrickAllies]

Me: I've decided I need to stop listening to mid-20th century English choral music for the sake of my mental health
Therapist: Lo, the full, final sacrifice

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@yousef_1892 @tfNUFC Sorry to hear that, Yousef — it's not an easy thing to deal with. Hope you and the family are doing OK, and best wishes to your mum.

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@richmondie @ethanhein The Flintstones' theme has helped me out with a descending perfect fourth many a time...!

[Stephen Hough @houghhough]

I'm really excited to be playing Brahms 1 next season with one of my favourite orchestras: @TheCBSO I'm happy to be filmed on phones by the audience except for the following bars when I really need to concentrate and could be distracted:

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@PatreonSupport Evening — how come my paid supporters are suddenly getting charged for ALL paid-members-only posts I make, even if I don't toggle the "charge members for this post" slider!?

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@ladychatterley Look at it from the violists' point of view: getting their own clef is a tiny compensation for a lifetime of hell filling in the middle of the harmony on an instrument that sounds like an angry bee in a matchbox

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@graemearcher The A major from Book 1 is worth a look, too, if you don't know it — it's one of my favourites. The prelude is itself a little fugue.

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@RichardBratby @PrestoMusicCom @eandtbooks Well done! I did the 1:72 Lanc at about the same time — very fiddly, if I recall, so that competition victory was well-earned.

[Prafulla ✨ @Prafulla98]

Everytime I restart this course by @billhilton I learn something new and unlearn the old mistakes, I must say this course is beautifully crafted ✨

#piano

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@Prafulla98 Thank you! As always, let me know if you have any questions or if there's anything I can do to help!

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@iamamro Yes me too, and I was up about the same time #bleary - btw are hashtags still cool? And do you remember when Twitter was full of witty people pretending to be famous writers and historical figures? Them were the days

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

Aristotle's Way was excellent, so I'll be getting this. Prof. Hall was the guest on one of the best ever episodes of The Art of Manliness, which is definitely worth a listen (whether you're a bloke or otherwise): https://t.co/GK3Ivds6RA

[@edithmayhall @edithmayhall]

New book arrived! Ultimately it's a tribute to my late mum, Brenda Hall nee Henderson,who faced down her family's transgenerational Furies, by way of Greek tragedy, Aristotle, personal memoir, suicidology, the history of Ethics and lowland Scottish history. Audiobook soon

[Bill Hilton 🇺🇦 @billhilton]

@_paullay Marlowe's Mighty Line

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@ethanhein "Sit Down" by James — not much known outside the UK, to be fair, but very well-known here. A straight I-I-IV-V loop throughout. https://t.co/Z5xpdW1omB