Here’s another great site you should check out: the Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures website. You can register an account for yourself and even set up multiple accounts for your students and monitor their progress as they work through the different phases of the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra program. It looks very interesting and […]
Teaching
31 Days to Better Practicing
Want some fresh ideas to jump-start the new school year for your students (or yourself!)? I suggest you head over to Chris Foley’s Collaborative Piano Blog for some great, practical ideas on practicing. Last year he wrote a series on 31 Days to Better Practicing and this year he’s put together a handy reader’s guide […]
Audition to Study Piano with Mario Ajero
Check out this awesome opportunity that Mario Ajero is offering to anyone who is interested in studying piano with him! Mario is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Coordinator of Class Piano at Stephen F. Austin State University and also hosts The Piano Podcast. He is one of the leading experts in the field of […]
Piano Practice Tips
This Piano Practice Tips E-News Archives page has some wonderful thoughts on effective practice methods. I’m guessing that the e-newsletter itself is no longer in operation, because the archives are dated 2000-2002. Here’s another page I just found with even more archives. I haven’t read through all of the archives, but it’s nice to know […]
Treble Clef Music Game
This is the first game I ever made for my studio and it is still one of the favorites. I just cut a treble clef shape out of white posterboard and then cut orange and blue circles and placed them on the treble clef to create a path. Then I laminated it to preserve it […]
Piano Camp 2008 Q&A
First off, I must say that the general outline for the camp was put together by another teacher in our local association who is chairing the committee for our Music Olympics next week. This made my planning a piece of cake, since I really just had to fill in the specifics. Thanks, Sally! Now, on […]
