#6 – Brenda #1 – Tiffany #3 – Kate Each of you will receive your choice of a free composition from Kori Buchanan. I know you and your students will enjoy it!
Coolest Lego Ever – A Working Grand Piano!
Is anyone else here a secret Lego lover? I grew up building all sorts of Lego creations, and love the possibilities that abound with their many varied pieces. Well, I recently came across a Playable Lego Piano that has been designed by a musician and is being proposed to the Lego Review Board for consideration […]
Review and Giveaway of Kori Buchanan’s Piano Compositions
“Grand.” “Enjoyable.” “Really neat piece.” “I loved it!” Those are the descriptions and exclamations that I heard from students after one week of them playing Kori Buchanan’s excellent piano compositions! Kori has been a longtime follower of Music Matters Blog and contacted me recently about reviewing some of her piano compositions. I thought it would […]
And the Winner is…
#2 – Kathleen You will receive a free copy of Nathan Holder’s I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons. Congrats! Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway. Stay tuned for another one coming soon!
Group Piano Class Jam Session
One of my objectives with every group class (held monthly) is for students to not only perform for each other, but also to play music together. We accomplish this in various ways, but for our January group piano class, I thought it would be interesting to try having a jam session. This isn’t something we […]
Review and Giveaway of I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons
With bookend stories about the fictitious piano student Olivia in his new book, I Wish I Didn’t Quit: Music Lessons, author Nathan Holder paints a picture first of an all-too familiar scenario and later an ideal scenario when it comes to studying music. Himself a member of the “I-wish-I-didn’t-quit” statistic, Holder writes from a collection […]
