Six Music Matters Blog readers will be the excited new owners of one of two cool music apps! The winners of the drawing are as follows: #24 – Bethany #19 – Genevieve #27 – Anna #7 – Lacy #32 – Kristi #12 –Â Wendy M Congrats to all of you! I’m going to give away […]
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Visit Music Museums Without Leaving Your Studio!
Anyone traveling to any cool places this summer? Will you be checking out any museums while you’re there? There’s so much to be learned by visiting museums and exploring the exhibits! That’s one reason I was really excited to come across this Virtual Museums post by About.com’s Music Education editor, Espie Estrella. Here are a […]
Monday Mailbag – Letting Students Go
I need to let 5-6 of my 21 students go for next fall. How do I tell the parents of those I’m choosing not to teach next year? The ones I’m cutting are the students who don’t practice. I love the families, the kids, and especially the moms. We are good friends and I don’t […]
Do You Have an Adjective List?
I don’t actually know how I ended up on the 3-D Piano e-newsletter list, but an article in the recent issue caught my attention – Imagery, Emotion, and Imagination: Cultivating vibrant performance through descriptive adjectives and metaphors. This is a concept I’ve heard before, but I’ve never tried it out to this extent with my […]
Review and Giveaway of Two Cool Music Apps!
When I got my new iPod Touch, there were several music apps at the top of my list. Here are two of them: Scales & Modes I have to admit, as a very visual person the first thing that attracted me to this app was the beautiful design. But if all it does is look […]
Monday Mailbag – Listening to Great Pianists
And now…back to your regularly scheduled programming! After several weeks of neglecting the Monday Mailbag posting, here’s hoping the rest of the summer will go better as far as keeping up with it! I have a slew of questions to post, so I may even stick some in on other days, too. 🙂 As a […]
