What a pleasant surprise it was to me when 8-year old Joey announced part way through his lesson that he had chosen another piece to work on. “Because it will make me have to count,” he said and then quickly added, “and I need to work on my counting.” Ah, yes! An early convert to […]
Organized Worksheets!
The best thing happened today! A student was having trouble with a particular rhythmic concept and I realized I had a worksheet that would help reinforce at home what we had just been working on at her lesson. Now, a week ago, I would have had to rummage through several folders full of worksheets to […]
Group Class Travels Back in Time
At our group class the other night, we traveled back in time to the Renaissance. I turned off all the lights in the studio and lit candles all around the room. As the students arrived, they heard the sound of monks singing Gregorian Chantsin the background. We focused throughout the class on how music is […]
Discovery School’s Puzzlemaker
Discovery School’s Puzzlemaker is an amazing tool! I’m getting ready for a group class tonight where we’ll be discussing how music is a form of communication and I used it to create this hidden message worksheet for the students to take home to keep the things we talked about a little more fresh in their […]
Professional Recording Possibility
MusicMatters is a site I came across when I was in the planning stages for the Music Matters Blog site. MusicMatters offers a very unique service. They will send a recording engineer to your music event to either do an audio or video recording. They will then master these into either a CD or VHS […]
Quarter and Half Note Worksheet
Here’s a simple worksheet I put together this morning for a student who has a lesson this afternoon. It was a piece of cake to do this in Microsoft Word using tables and the new Bach Musicological Font I mentioned in this post. Here’s another sample I typed up of just a glimpse of what […]
