Here’s a fun-looking Practice Record that you can download for free from the Piano At Pepper website and print out to use with your students. For about the past six years or so, I’ve made my own student assignment books and practice records, but I always like to get ideas from the designs of others […]
Teaching
Scale and Chord Progress Chart
Several years ago, I developed this progress chart to include in each student’s practice journal so that we could easily track which chords and scales they had mastered at various tempi. Although I haven’t used the chart for a while now, I still get comments from other teachers who are using it successfully in their […]
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Dealing With Parental Misconceptions
One of the frustrations Independent Music Teachers often deal with is requests from parents that seem unreasonable and outside of what is allowed in our studio policy. The importance of communicating openly and clearly with parents became clear to me in a recent situation I encountered. A student showed up at my studio for her […]
Worksheets for Sightreading
The worksheets on this site work great for reinforcing note recognition and some basic sightreading. Each of the following categories contain three separate worksheets that can be downloaded for free: Bass Clef: C Position Bass Clef: Line Notes Bass Clef: Space Notes Bass Clef: Line and Space Notes Treble Clef: C Position Treble Clef: Line […]
Naxos – A Great Composer Resource!
Naxos is a pretty familiar name to most musicians and music teachers, but for some reason I had never visited the site. I came across it in a recent search for information on an obscure composer. I was amazed at the exhaustive list of both composers and artists. There are portraits and brief biographies for […]
