Yesterday I mentioned the fabulous book, Here Come the High Notes by Marin Marka. This is great for any music studio or as gift for anyone with young children. I happened to notice that there is a box of scratch and dent books available for half off the cover price – truly a steal! Just […]
Coming Soon – Piano Expeditions!
After several years of tossing around the idea of offering preschool piano camp/classes, this year I finally decided to give it a go! It’s in “Beta testing” this week, but I’m super excited to introduce you to: Piano Expeditions! I have five students between the ages of 3.5 and 7 who are participating this week. […]
World of Wonder Piano Practice Incentive Theme is Hot Off the Press!
We’ve just wrapped a wonderful year of world travel (in spite of the stay-home orders for the last two months that forced us to finish up the year virtually!) in our studio. As a part of our journey, each student completed 40 Destination Pieces, memorized many vocabulary words, developed greater technical acumen with scales and […]
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: “10x faster results.” “No more boredom or frustration, ever.” “Break through any sticking point, speed limit or plateau in your progress.” The course featured Gregg Goodhart (a.k.a. “The Learning Coach”), […]
Calling All Lego Lovers!
And that includes pretty much everyone who has ever been a child, right? Wouldn’t you love to have a Lego set specifically designed so you and/or your students could construct their own symphony orchestra? If so, check out this product idea submitted to Lego by Daniel Smith: It’s quick and easy to create an account […]
Group Piano Class Goes Virtual!
Now that we’re about a month into our stay-home order around here, necessitating virtual rather than in-person piano lessons, I decided to give our monthly group class a try using a Zoom meeting. It went surprisingly well and was a fun time! We started with a game of rhythmic dictation where I played a 4-beat […]
