My musical strength has always been sight-reading and it’s been a long process to develop any ability to play by ear. After reading this funny little anecdote my Dad sent me today, though, I’m feeling pretty good about myself… 🙂 The symphony musicians had little confidence in the person brought in to be their new […]
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Trying a New Stitch
Since I’m currently serving as the president of one of our local music teachers associations, one of my responsibilities is to write a letter for our quarterly newsletter. Just for fun I thought I’d post the article I wrote for the most recent newsletter… Several years ago one of my students presented me with a […]
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 […]
Join the Music Matters Blog Facebook Blog Network
For those of you who are on Facebook, I’ve created a Blog Network for Music Matters Blog. I’m not totally sure how I’m going to use it yet, but I thought it seemed like a fun thing to do. 🙂 I’d love to have you join the network!
Random Ramblings…
Is everyone else equally crazy this time of year?! We just finished our Music Progressions evaluations this weekend – hooray! (So that’s my excuse for a dearth of posts this week.) I told my students I would even give them one week off of playing scales as a reward for all their hard work. 🙂 […]
Songs for Teaching
When I taught Character First! Education classes in some of our local elementary schools, there was a Kindergarten teacher who had moved her piano into her classroom. All throughout the day she would take a seat at the piano and play little songs to help reinforce various grammatical rules, spelling, math facts, etc. The students […]
