Do your students (or you!) need some motivation for a New Year of piano lessons? It’s easy to fall into a slump after all the energy of the holiday season. Perhaps a new practice incentive theme is just the thing! We have 15 tried-and-true programs ready to download and print for use in your studio. […]
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Win Your Own Ideal Piano Footrest!
Have you seen this amazing little construction? A piano teacher in Wisconsin, along with her fiancé, designed the Ideal Piano Footrest and are in pre-production. Before they mass produce them, they are giving away 10 of them via a drawing on their website in order to solicit feedback and tweak the design. I just submitted […]
Piano Companion App – A Guest Post by Sergey Bogdanov
Piano Companion is an app that can be downloaded on your computer, tablet, or phone. Upon opening the app, you are greeted with a simple menu that allows for all of the features to be easily utilized. Below is a description of the tabs and their respective features. At the top left, you will find […]
Highlights from the Kansas Music Teachers Association Conference
One of the highlights of my teaching year is attending our Kansas state music teachers conference. Partly because I get to catch up with my good friend and colleague, Lisa, along with other piano teachers from across the state. Partly because it’s an opportunity to take a short road trip and explore a new place […]
A New Venture – Hammock in the Woods
Ever since I was a little girl playing “travel agency” in the basement with my sisters, I’ve had a fascination with learning about and visiting places all across the globe. In those days we had no internet, so we contacted Convention and Visitors Bureaus across the country requesting copies of their latest magazines until our […]
Gearing Up For Fall with a New Practice Incentive Theme!
After long sessions of brainstorming, frequent prayers, multiple days of late-nighters, too many hours on the phone with tech support trying to resolve software issues, and I-won’t-say-how-many Klondike bars :-), our studio practice incentive theme for this fall is finally ready. It’s a super fun combination of two of my favorite things: sightreading and sightseeing! […]
