Jerald Simon, of the Music Motivation Blog, is developing a page full of fabulous free downloadable music theory worksheets! Current worksheets include major and minor pentascales, intervals, chord inversions, and chord progressions. What a great resource, especially for students preparing for state theory tests! He is planning to add one new download every day for […]
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Theme Ideas for the Studio
Joy, of the Color In My Piano blog, has posted a super list of 30 Theme Ideas for the Music Studio Events. I’m partially posting the link here so you call can check out the great collection of ideas. But I’m mostly posting it here so that I can come back and refer to it […]
A Peek Into My Christmas Recital
It’s been over a month since our annual Christmas recital and I’m finally getting around to posting pictures! I’ve gotten some questions and requests from other teachers related to the recital, so here is a glimpse into our 2009 recital, themed: Jesus: God of the Galaxy. First off, I LOVED having a professional photographer! It […]
Monday Mailbag – More about the Treble Clef Game
[Natalie’s Note: Following is a series of questions I received pertaining to this treble clef game – a favorite in my studio!] I began teaching beginner piano lessons this summer. Being a teenager with no experience, I feel like I “run out” of new ideas quickly. I really like your game ideas, and I have […]
Monday Mailbag – Adult Method Series
Do you have a favorite adult method series? Honestly, no. I don’t really like any of the adult method books that I’ve used. For beginning adult students, I usually use the Faber Accelerated Piano Adventures. Many of the adult methods are more chord-based in their approach and I feel like that is a disservice to […]
Monday Mailbag – Moving Away from Method Books
At what point do you discontinue using method books with more advanced students? What does their curriculum consist of (i.e. what do you do for repertoire, technique, etc)? Wow! Like my Introducing Baroque Music post, I’m afraid this will reveal my lack of structured lesson planning when it comes to the higher levels! Just don’t […]
