Does anyone else keep a list of projects that they’d like to make for their studio? It seems like my list grows longer rather than diminishing in size! Regardless, these Do-It-Yourself Musical AlphaGems that Joy posted about recently have just been added to my list! I think my students would really love these, and there […]
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Equipment Needed to Live Stream a Recital
After the post about my upcoming Christmas recital, several of you left comments or sent e-mails asking what equipment was necessary in order to live stream a recital. This will be my first time experimenting with this, but from what I can gather here’s what I’ll need: A USTREAM account. Laptop computer with access to […]
Group Class Focuses on Performance
It’s been a while since I posted pictures, so I figured it was about time! The Thursday before Thanksgiving week, we held our third studio group class. We have four main areas we’re focusing on this year, and each group class highlights one of them. This one focused on performance. We started out with a […]
Monday Mailbag – Who Pays for New Student Music?
When you get $200+ worth of new music for your students, do you then have them purchase each one or how do you do that? At this point, I purchase all the new music for my students. Several years ago, I instituted a registration fee of $50 that is due by the 1st of August […]
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
This week I’m not teaching, so I decided to take the week off of blogging as well (in celebration of Thanksgiving and my birthday – which happens to be on Thanksgiving this year! :-)). I’ve also got a couple of speaking engagements this week and will be working on plans for our upcoming Christmas recital. […]
A Break from the Regularly Scheduled Programming…
…to have some fun! Several weeks ago, Sheryl, of the fabulous Notable Music Studio blog, contacted me to let me know that she had bestowed upon me the highly sought after and coveted Versatile Blogger award. Okay, so maybe that’s a bit overly dramatic, but hey, an award is an award, right?! 🙂 In order […]
