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Archives for December 2010

Monday Mailbag – Teaching Performance Skills

December 6, 2010 by natalie 1 Comment

During your informal performances in group lessons, how do you prepare your students for how to approach the bench and to take a bow afterwards?  Do you have them introduce their piece and/or talk about it?  I really want my students to become more comfortable with performing for their peers as a ladder-step to performing […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Monday Mailbag, Recital Ideas

Super Cool Musical AlphaGems!

December 3, 2010 by natalie 3 Comments

Does anyone else keep a list of projects that they’d like to make for their studio? It seems like my list grows longer rather than diminishing in size! Regardless, these Do-It-Yourself Musical AlphaGems that Joy posted about recently have just been added to my list! I think my students would really love these, and there […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Studio Ideas

Equipment Needed to Live Stream a Recital

December 2, 2010 by natalie 1 Comment

After the post about my upcoming Christmas recital, several of you left comments or sent e-mails asking what equipment was necessary in order to live stream a recital. This will be my first time experimenting with this, but from what I can gather here’s what I’ll need: A USTREAM account. Laptop computer with access to […]

Filed Under: Computer Help, Recital Ideas, Technology Tips

Group Class Focuses on Performance

December 1, 2010 by natalie 1 Comment

It’s been a while since I posted pictures, so I figured it was about time! The Thursday before Thanksgiving week, we held our third studio group class. We have four main areas we’re focusing on this year, and each group class highlights one of them. This one focused on performance. We started out with a […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Recital Ideas

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