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Group Class Ideas

Piano Camp – Improvising!

July 14, 2009 by natalie Leave a Comment

One of the other activities we are doing each day of Piano Camp is improvising. I start out by having all the students play the pentascale, chord progression, and arpeggio of a given key. We do this several times all together. Then, I play an accompaniment CD and they play along with the CD. After […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Piano Camp Ideas, This Week in Photos

Piano Camp in Pictures

July 13, 2009 by natalie 1 Comment

Since I’m holding Piano Camp this week, I thought I’d give you a look into what we do each day. You can see the outline of my objectives for the week on the post Working on Piano Camp Lesson Plans. Not surprisingly, some of the activities took a little longer than I anticipated, so we […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Piano Camp Ideas, This Week in Photos

Working on Piano Camp Lesson Plans

July 9, 2009 by natalie 3 Comments

My Piano Camp is scheduled for next week, so I’ve been busy these last couple of days trying to assimilate all my ideas and devise the accompanying lesson plans. For more specifics on how I do this, you can read the post, How to Plan a Group Class. This year, I’m only holding one Piano […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Personal, Piano Camp Ideas

Monday Mailbag – Scheduling Group Classes

June 1, 2009 by natalie 3 Comments

I was just wondering how you fit in group lessons into your weekly schedule. How often would they have a group lesson? Do you just keep the same time each week and rotate which group you see? What I do is a little bit of a different approach from most teachers who conduct group classes. […]

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Monday Mailbag – Carnival of the Animals Summer Piano Camp

May 4, 2009 by natalie Leave a Comment

I have been thinking about doing a summer music camp theme, but haven’t done it yet…could you give me more of an idea of what other type of activities you did with your Carnival of the Animals piano camp? Here’s what my daily outline looked like for the camp. Daily Outline: 20 minutes – welcome, […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Monday Mailbag, Piano Camp Ideas, Worksheets

Echoes From the Square

April 16, 2009 by natalie 3 Comments

Recently, I received an e-mail from Elizabeth Wellburn, author of the colorful and captivating book Echoes From the Square by Elizabeth Wellburn. It is the beautiful story of cellist Vedran Smailovic, retold in this heartwarming children’s book. The video below is a recording of Ms. Wellburn reading the story, accompanied by images from the book […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Resource Reviews

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