Continuing with the Piano Camp theme for the week, here are a few pictures from another one of our daily activities – ensemble playing! I played through a whole stack of ensemble repertoire last week looking for the perfect combinations for the group of students attending Piano Camp this week. We allocoate about 15-20 minutes […]
Group Class Ideas
Piano Camp – Improvising!
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 […]
Piano Camp in Pictures
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 […]
Working on Piano Camp Lesson Plans
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 […]
Monday Mailbag – Scheduling Group Classes
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. […]
Monday Mailbag – Carnival of the Animals Summer Piano Camp
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, […]
