In the wake of this year’s pandemic, The Cliburn organization launched a music education site for kids. Now they’ve completed relaunched Cliburn Kids as a “robust online music education program” and it looks fabulous! Most episodes are less than 10 minutes and feature engaging Classical music selections with commentary by Buddy Bray that encourages students […]
Videos
Piano Expeditions – Highlights in the Words of the Students
Several weeks ago we held our first Piano Expeditions piano camp – To France with Saint-SaĆ«ns and His Carnival. Here’s what the adorable students had to say about it!
Learn Piano (or any instrument) Like a Genius
When Christopher Sutton and his team at Musical U announced a Musical Superlearning course, I was intrigued. After all, promises like this don’t go unnoticed: ā10x faster results.ā āNo more boredom or frustration, ever.ā āBreak through any sticking point, speed limit or plateau in your progress.ā The course featured Gregg Goodhart (a.k.a. “The Learning Coach”), […]
Group Piano Class Jam Session
One of my objectives with every group class (held monthly) is for students to not only perform for each other, but also to play music together. We accomplish this in various ways, but for our January group piano class, I thought it would be interesting to try having a jam session. This isn’t something we […]
New Piano Sheet Music for I’d Rather Have Jesus
It only took me about 5 and a half years, but the piano sheet music is finally done and available for the original arrangement of I’d Rather Have Jesus. I posted the video of it in 2013: And I’ve been procrastinating notating and publishing it ever since. š But after many hours of work over […]
How Playing a Musical Instrument Benefits Your Brain
I enjoyed this engaging TEDEd animated video about How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain. Info that we music teachers have heard before, but it’s always a great reminder – and always worth sharing with our studio families and prospective students! ?
