2. Make it social Studying piano can be kind of lonely. Kids practice by themselves. Then they sit in a small room with an “old” teacher who for 30 minutes tells them everything they’re doing wrong. Then they go home and repeat. One reason why so many kids end up choosing sports over piano is […]
Resources
3 Tips to Turn Students into Music Theory Rockstars – Guest Series by Kristin Jensen
Now that you know the three steps, let’s dive a little deeper into each one and learn some specific action steps you can take to implement these practices in your studio. Make it fun When I was a student, learning theory meant doing written assignments out of a workbook at home. I always completed my […]
3 Tips to Turn Students into Music Theory Rockstars – Guest Series by Kristin Jensen
It was a special day when my first two 4 year old students aced the first grade level theory exam. Kids have proven to me time and again that they are capable of doing so much more than we realize. Those two four year-olds really stretched my creativity as a teacher as I realized that […]
Resources that Private Music Teachers Love
Music Teacher’s Helper (one of my favorite resources!) recently conducted a survey asking private music teachers what their favorite resources are. They compiled the results into this handy, hyperlinked infographic (including yours truly 🙂 ): View the infographic here as well: http://www.musicteachershelper.com/blog/resources-music-teachers-love/
Review of Good Music Brighter Children by Sharlene Habermeyer
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s! Reviews have been absent for a while here on the blog this past holiday season for the sake of regrouping, spending time with my wonderful family, and for the sake of meeting my goal to thoroughly go through the aforementioned (in the title) book so it […]
A Collection of Free Composer eBooks by Thomas Tapper
In doing some research for next semester, I came across this section on gutenberg.org that contains a set of 13 composer books by Thomas Tapper that are available as free downloads. You can download them for Kindle, iPad/iPhone/iPod, or as an HTML file. The files contain easy-to-read text along with photographs and portraits relevant to […]
