Did anyone else grow up with the Wee Sing series of songbooks? I still have a collection of these childhood favorites sitting on my shelves (I think I need to pull them off and start using them in my teaching!). I just recently discovered that there is actually a Wee Sing Website with more info, […]
Free Piano Sight Reading Flash Cards from Diane Hidy
If your studio is anything like mine, you can never have too many sight reading resources at your fingertips! I was thrilled to discover these sight reading flashcards from Diane Hidy. This will be great to have available in the studio and to give students to use on their own during the week!
Performance Enhancing Tips for the Learning Student
In keeping with our studio practice incentive theme this year, Project 28, our group classes this year are called Project Symposiums. We held Project Symposium #1 last night and had a ton of fun! Another new dimension to the group classes this year is that for each one I’m having one of the Pursuit of […]
Win $200 From the Piano Technicians Guild!
Do you have a great teaching idea, app, or worksheet that you’d like to share with other teachers? If so, you could land yourself a $200 prize from the Piano Technicians Guild! From now until December 31, 2012, the PTG is collecting teaching ideas and resources from PTG and MTNA members to add to their […]
And I Thought 16 Pianos Was a Lot!
For many years I have been intrigued by the concept of a multi-piano concert. This year, thanks to an invitation from the Kansas City Music Teachers Association, six of my students and I are going to participate for the first time in their flagship event featuring 16 pianos and 32 pianists! We are so excited […]
Review and Giveaway of A Piano in Every Room
From the opening chapter of Rosamond van der Linde’s colorful memoir, A Piano in Every Room, readers will be drawn into the life of the young girl whose insatiable curiosity and love for music convinced her from the age of seven that she was destined to become a piano teacher. This was especially remarkable because […]
