I love your Music Matters Blog. So inspirational!! But I have a question regarding your practice incentives. How can a teacher pull out all the bells and whistles to make this what I’d want it to be when I teach in my home – in the living room to be exact? I’d love to have […]
Monday Mailbag
Monday Mailbag – 5 Tips for Helping Students Fix Persistent Mistakes
How do you help your students when they keep playing the same mistakes? I tried different method and section or so-called “smart practice” with him, but somehow, he still makes the same mistakes even though I have said that a thousand times! What a relevant question for all of us music teachers! This is such […]
Monday Mailbag – When Students Can’t Memorize
What happens when students just can’t memorize (I’m one of them; I just don’t have the capacity for memorization)? Do we give up on them as musicians, or is there another way? We are all gifted in different ways, with different capacities for various skills. In my opinion, it’s more valuable to be able to […]
Monday Mailbag – Notation Software
I’d love to be able to use notation software in my studio. I have some budding composers, and I also would love to do my own “edits” of songs for some students that is more readable than me just printing it out. However, there are several products out there, and they all claim to be […]
Monday Mailbag – Choreography at the Piano
How can I help my students express with their bodies when they are playing? Many of them just SIT THERE and play. Even the students who play with all the expression (dynamics, phrases, articulation, etc.) feel intimidated when I ask them to move a little and not play like “robots.” Years ago, when I was […]
Monday Mailbag – Studio Bookkeeping Software
I’m currently in a class called Group Piano and Technology, for my masters program. We’re reviewing everything technology-related to teaching piano. I know that you use Music Teacher’s Helper and I was wondering if there are any other similar programs out there that compare. That was the only program of its kind that we discussed […]
