I promise I’m still going to answer all the specific questions relating to my piano camp, but in the meantime, you have to check out these awesome rhythm blocks that D’Net made! They are so colorful and such a wonderful teaching tool. Looks like I have something else to add to my summer to-do list! […]
Teaching
Piano Camp – The Daily Plan
Since many of you were interested in more specifics from my piano camp, I’ve copied my daily schedule below to give you a better idea of how I structured each day. I had 2 1/2 hours with each group (usually I do 2 hours a day and meet Monday through Friday, but since Friday was […]
Memories of Piano Camp 2008!
You can watch this video I put together last night to catch a glimpse of how our Olympic-themed Piano Camp turned out this week. It’s impossible to capture everything, but suffice it to say that we had a wonderful time!
Great Pianists on Piano Playing Podcasts
Michael Griffin, developer of the Music Education World website and author of the Music and Keyboard in the Classroom curriculum, has just posted eight episodes of a new Great Pianists on Piano Playing Podcast (scroll to the bottom of the page for the links). The eight episodes range from 5 to 18 minutes in length […]
Piano Camp Planning
Next week will be my week of piano camps and I’m sitting here at my dining room table with papers scattered around, jotting down ideas and finalizing the daily outline while the strains of Vivaldi’s Oboe Concertos quietly escape the speakers of my CD player in the background. There are always so many ideas and […]
Don’t Slam on the Brakes!
Lately I’ve found myself using the same analogy with a number of my students because it seems to be very effective. I tell them to imagine that they are riding in the car with one of their parents and are approaching a stop sign. Then I ask whether their parent waits until they are right […]
