If you’re looking for simple, easy-to-follow piano scale fingering diagrams, look no further! A complete set of Major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor keyboard fingering diagrams has been added to the Music Matters Blog store, and you can download them for free! I’ve begun including these in the back of my student assignment […]
Teaching
The Secret of the Keys Practice Incentive Theme on Sale This Month!
I had planned to do a short video clip of each student at our Year-End Evaluations, having them share what they liked best about this year’s practice incentive theme: The Secret of the Keys. However, I forgot to do so with everyone except Ellie, so she gets to be our spokeswoman for this year! Here […]
Treat Your Studio and Support Children with Special Needs
Summer is just around the corner and with it a nice change of pace for most of us, and hopefully some time to generate new ideas for our studios! We have wrapped up our Secret of the Keys practice incentive theme and it is now available in the Music Matters Blog store (get your coupon […]
Free Piano Technique Webinar with Josh Wright
A number of years ago a friend gave me a new album by a pianist I hadn’t heard of at the time – Josh Wright. I listened to it over and over again and especially loved his rendition of Liszt’s La Campanella (this is a crazy performance of it using two pianos!). I just came […]
Review and Giveaway of Here Come the High Notes by Marin Marka
The first in a delightful series of children’s books from FableNotes, Here Come the High Notes is an imaginative story that introduces the treble clef and its notes from Middle C through Treble G (12 notes). Author Marin Marka is an occupational therapist and music teacher who has a passion for reaching children of all […]
Group Piano Class Jam Session
One of my objectives with every group class (held monthly) is for students to not only perform for each other, but also to play music together. We accomplish this in various ways, but for our January group piano class, I thought it would be interesting to try having a jam session. This isn’t something we […]
