As I continue my summer cleaning process here on Music Matters Blog, it’s been fun coming across these old post drafts. I have no idea why this one never got posted, but here are some [nostalgic for me!] pictures of one of our first summer piano camps! We used the simple Piano Camp Lesson Plans, […]
The Motherlode of Free Music Worksheets!
I’m doing some spring summer cleaning here on Music Matters Blog and am going through old drafts of posts that never got published. Here’s one I completely forgot about and will definitely be coming back to! Check out the awesome and huge collection of free music worksheets on the Fun and Learn Music website! I […]
Piano – The Book
This beautiful, interactive ebook has accomplished what no other iPad game or resource has yet been able to accomplish – it has gotten me excited about using the iPad with my students in their lessons! As much as I love technology, I confess that although I’ve wanted to figure out ways to incorporate it effectively […]
Activate the Brain!
I love to attend workshops or participate in courses that really make me think. You know, ones where the presenter shares fascinating research or information, and then you have to process it yourself and figure out what to do with that information, or how to apply it to your situation. Sometimes it’s also nice to […]
Playground Time!
Have you seen Kristin’s Piano Teacher’s Playground? This is one of my favorite stops for fun, colorful, yet clean-looking free worksheets to use with my piano students. In fact, since our Vanishing Voices practice incentive theme incorporated doing a theory worksheet every three weeks to earn Mental Miles, I used her Scale Detective, Identifying Half […]
Vanishing Voices is Here and You Could Win a Complete Studio Display Package!
Every year around this time I release our latest studio Practice Incentive Theme, and I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited as I am this year! Vanishing Voices: a musical race against time! is one of the most successful themes we’ve ever done in our studio. I have seen every student grow so much […]