Since we were getting ready for our first group event last week, I took the opportunity to film several of my students playing their pieces so they could watch themselves and use it as a tool for improvement. I really need to do this more often! I finally decided to create an official YouTube channel […]
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Solve the Clue – Win a Prize!
My studio theme/practice incentive this year is Mastering the Mystery of Music. I’ve divided the year into six different sessions, each with a different topic. Our first topic was The Symphony Orchestra. Each week if a student completes his mastery challenges, he receives a clue. The mystery this first session was to figure out which […]
Resources for Voice Teachers?
I just received an e-mail asking me if I know of any good resources for vocal pedagogy. I’m sure there are some blogs or websites out there that would be a great resource for vocal teachers, but since I don’t teach voice I’m afraid that I’m not much help in that area. So I thought […]
Dream Blog for Church Pianists Who Want to Learn to Improvise!
A couple of days ago, Jennifer Cook left a comment on one of my posts and I clicked over to her blog to check it out. What a treasure! If you are a church pianist and want to learn to improvise (or need some fresh improvisation ideas), you must go read The Church Pianist blog! […]
Piano Student Judge’s Worksheet
It is only four weeks until my next studio group event, so I spent Saturday morning planning and preparing. Our theme is Great Pianists and one of the things we are going to discuss is what makes someone a great pianist. In an effort to improve our own piano performance skills my plan is to […]
This Week in Photos
Addi and Holly love playing games at their lesson, so this week we started with a fun mystery note game. Each of them chose a colored game piece and placed it on the designated starting key on their piano. I sat in my chair and turned around backwards. Then I would call out instructions like, […]
