Thanks to a tip from Amy Chaplin in her Friday Finds #264, I was introduced to the Creative Piano Teacher website. The site is run by Olivia Ellis and Davis Dorrough and has a fabulous collection of colorful and well-designed free resources for piano teachers. They have an entire section of Free Resources, and I […]
Resource Reviews
Guide to Contemporary Educational Piano Composer Websites
Several times now I’ve heard Dennis Alexander mention his personal website and how few teachers seem to know it exists. And several times now I’ve forgotten about it! So I decided that maybe if I make a point of writing about it, I’ll be more inclined to remember it. And while I was at it, […]
32 Free Folk Songs and Popular Tunes for Easy Piano
One area of particular interest for me is folk songs from different countries. Especially when I’m putting together the Piano Expeditions piano camp curriculum, I enjoy trying to find folk songs from the country we’re “visiting” and see if they can be adapted for use in our week of piano camp. I was recently checking […]
Anytune App
At a recent Dennis Alexander workshop sponsored by our local music teachers association, Dennis mentioned that Anytune app. Maybe I’ve been living under a rock when it comes to new apps, but I had never heard of this one, and boy, have I been missing out! Anytune is a free app that enables you to […]
A Comparison of Jane Magrath’s Piano Teaching Literature Reference Works
Years ago I acquired a used copy of Jane Magrath’s book, The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature, published in 1995 by Alfred Publishing. It has served me well for many years, especially in my early days as a piano teacher when I was learning how to appropriately level and select repertoire for […]
Rediscovering Free Piano Sheet Music at Virtual Sheet Music
I just downloaded a 36-page Virtual Sheet Music edition of Schubert’s Two Marches, Op. 121 for piano duet. For free! It’s one of the two featured free music downloads that Virtual Sheet Music is offering this month. I discovered that they offer two new free downloads every two weeks. Definitely have that page bookmarked now! […]
