It is only four weeks until my next studio group event, so I spent Saturday morning planning and preparing. Our theme is Great Pianists and one of the things we are going to discuss is what makes someone a great pianist. In an effort to improve our own piano performance skills my plan is to […]
Teaching
This Week in Photos
Addi and Holly love playing games at their lesson, so this week we started with a fun mystery note game. Each of them chose a colored game piece and placed it on the designated starting key on their piano. I sat in my chair and turned around backwards. Then I would call out instructions like, […]
Listen and Learn – Educational Songs
A couple of weeks ago I was alerted to this fantastic Listen and Learn Music Blog that is run by Rachel Rambach, a board-certified music therapist specializing in work with children who are diagnosed with autism. Rachel has a whole collection of educational songs on topics ranging from colors to instruments to technology. Each of […]
Studio Policy Website
Susan Todd has revamped the Studio Policy Website and just went live with it a couple of days ago. In addition to studio policies, there are a number of other teaching ideas and resources that any teacher, but especially beginning teachers, will find invaluable. When the members from our Pno-Ped-L e-mail group first started discussing […]
Music Memory Game
Last Friday I hosted our local music teachers association meeting at my studio and we had a great time sharing game and activity ideas. In the course of talking with one of the other teachers, I was reminded of this Music Memory game that I made up years ago for a small beginner level music […]
This Week in Photos
Chord Sharing Prompted by one of the suggestions given in the improvising workshop I attended at the state conference earlier this month, I pulled one scale block from the jar (D) and instructed my high school student to see how many different chords she could come up with that contained the D. She went through […]
