I just gave a workshop last weekend to our local music teachers association on setting up your own website. Regardless of whether you are designing your own site from scratch or are using a pre-designed website from another provider (like Music Teacher’s Helper), you will definitely want to set up your own domain name so […]
Amazing Grace: The True Story – A New Musical
I first read about this new musical, Amazing Grace: The True Story, in a news magazine and was thrilled! The story of how it came to be (nine years in the making!) is fascinating. I’ve been following their website and subscribed to their newsletter so that I could stay up-to-date with the progress. From everything […]
Piano Camp Planning
Next week will be my week of piano camps and I’m sitting here at my dining room table with papers scattered around, jotting down ideas and finalizing the daily outline while the strains of Vivaldi’s Oboe Concertos quietly escape the speakers of my CD player in the background. There are always so many ideas and […]
Don’t Slam on the Brakes!
Lately I’ve found myself using the same analogy with a number of my students because it seems to be very effective. I tell them to imagine that they are riding in the car with one of their parents and are approaching a stop sign. Then I ask whether their parent waits until they are right […]
Free Coupon for sheetmusicplus.com
I just received a $1.50 coupon in the mail for Sheet Music Plus. It has to be used by August 2, 2008. Rather than just trash it, since I’m not planning to use it, I thought I would offer it to the first interested reader. I’ll give the coupon code to the first person to […]
No Such Thing As Piano
This is a great point by Mike over at the How to Practise website. I’ve noticed how often my students, who play well with dynamics at their lessons, often can’t get the same good sound when they perform in other venues. I’m definitely going to start using this principle of “no such thing as piano” […]
