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Group Class Ideas

Piano Camp Day One – To London with Handel and His Messiah

June 6, 2022 by natalie Leave a Comment

It’s one of our favorite weeks of the year – piano camp! We are continuing with our Piano Expeditions themes, this year To London with Handel and His Messiah. Here are a few highlights from our first day: Day One supplies are ready to go! We’ll be using several of the new printable full-sized piano […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Piano Camp Ideas, Piano Expeditions

Heartbeat Rhythms in Action!

April 11, 2022 by natalie Leave a Comment

We’ve been having fun using the new Heartbeat Rhythms music dictation game in both group classes and private piano lessons the last couple of weeks! For group class, I gave each student a copy of the pulse sheet and had piles of the note value hearts in the middle that they could utilize. I played […]

Filed Under: Feeling the Pulse, Fun Extras!, Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Rhythm Blocks

Heartbeat Rhythms – a hands-on dictation activity to help students understand musical pulse and rhythms

March 24, 2022 by natalie Leave a Comment

Ever since I came across D’Net Layton’s post on rhythm blocks many years ago, I’ve had it in mind to make a similar rhythm resource for my studio. Wood blocks cut to size were a bit more ambitious and space-consuming than what I wanted to create, but after lots of pondering and experimenting in the […]

Filed Under: Feeling the Pulse, Group Class Ideas, Piano Camp Ideas, Resources, Rhythm Blocks

Free Full-Sized Piano Keyboard

March 16, 2022 by natalie Leave a Comment

In preparing for piano camp this year, I searched far and wide to find a full-sized piano keyboard that I could use for some music theory games and activities. The few options that I found were much more than I wanted to pay, so I decided to see if I could create a simple printable […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Piano Camp Ideas, Resources Tagged With: Free Resources

Review of Extreme Heterophony by John Pitts

February 3, 2022 by natalie Leave a Comment

When composer John Pitts contacted me about reviewing his newest book, Extreme Heterophony: a study in javanese gamelan, I was intrigued for two reasons. Not, mind you, because I had any idea what it was about! But because, firstly, there has been an increased effort in the music education community to explore more diversity in […]

Filed Under: Group Class Ideas, Improvising, Repertoire Suggestions, Resource Reviews

Rollin Rhythms Game a Hit at Piano Group Class

December 6, 2021 by natalie 2 Comments

For our practice incentive theme this year (The Aquarium Caper), we are emphasizing developing rhythm skills, so I’ve been searching for a variety of rhythm games to include in our monthly piano group classes that will continue to reinforce rhythm knowledge and skills. For our last group class, I came across the free Rollin Rhythms […]

Filed Under: Game Ideas, Group Class Ideas, Worksheets Tagged With: Free Resources

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