One of my favorite summer activities is setting aside time to brainstorm and plan for the next year’s studio practice incentive theme. It’s so fun to go over all the input from my students and their parents during our Year-End Evaluations. I solicit specific theme ideas in their questionnaires and then we also discuss areas […]
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Rhythm Practice Games for Music Lessons – A Guest Post by Spin the Wheel
Note from Natalie: As a student who struggled with internalizing a sense of musical pulse, I especially appreciate the way that Spin the Wheel incorporates different movements into their rhythm activities to help students not only understand rhythmic notation cognitively, but feel it musically as well! Rhythm Practice Games for Music Lessons: Create a Music […]
To the Isle Recap Video
Here’s a video with highlights from our adventure-filled week of Piano Expeditions piano camp, To the Isle with Powell and His Dragons! Here are a few comments from parents following this week of piano camp: “V. had the best time!” “The boys had such a great week.” “Thank you so much for including A. this […]
To the Isle with Powell and His Dragons Piano Camp Program is Here!
If you’ve been following along over the last week (despite the crazy technical difficulties!) you may have noticed that we had a wild week of dragons and music in our piano studio. Inspired by my granddaughter’s current obsession with dragons and the epic soundtrack music of How to Train Your Dragon composed by John Powell, […]
To the Isle with Powell and His Dragons – Piano Camp Day 5
Our final day of piano camp is here, and let me tell you, the dragons came out in full force today! It was all Lainey and I could do to keep our younger group on track. Thankfully, everything is scheduled in 10-minute increments, so it doesn’t allow much time for distraction or wandering. Here are […]
To the Isle with Powell and His Dragons – Piano Camp Day 4
Due to the technical issues I mentioned in the Piano Camp Day 3 post, there will be a quick succession of the remaining posts for piano camp week, trying to play catch-up. Here are the highlights from Day 4 of To the Isle with Powell and His Dragons: The students loved using a xylophone for […]
