After nearly two years of work, I’m thrilled to report that Born to Deliver is hot off the press and ready to make its way into the hands of millions of readers throughout the world! 🙂 Check out the Born to Deliver website to read the first chapter, find out more about the book, read […]
Teaching
Free Music, Film, and Audio Engineering Courses On-line
Thanks to Music Matters Blog reader Victoria Shaw for alerting me to this collection of free on-line courses from Coursera on the topics of music, film, and audio engineering! In addition to music and education, I am also fascinated by the world of film and drama and writing. There are so many parallels in the […]
Monday Mailbag – When to Start Teaching Scales
When do you start teaching scales? I have been using the “Piano Adventures” method books and really like them, but they don’t teach scales or time signatures until four books in, and I am debating about teaching younger students scales before they encounter them in their music. How soon do you start introducing scales and […]
Thirty Thanksgiving Blessings
In the November/December 2012 issue of Clavier Companion, Susan Geffen wrote a very kind review of Music Matters Blog. Since the magazine recently launched a blog (if you haven’t already, you should definitely add it to your blog reading list!), they asked if I would contribute a guest post. As I pondered what to write, […]
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
The studio is closed for Thanksgiving this week, so I’ll be taking the week off of blogging as well. Hope you all have a wonderful time of celebration and rest with your families. Here’s a video of one of my favorite songs that reminds me to have an attitude of thankfulness for the many blessings […]
Fun Friday Film
If I let them, I think a good 50% of my studio would choose to play Carol of the Bells for the Christmas recital every year. 🙂 It’s one of those pieces that everyone just loves. Well…check out this cool a cappella version of the Christmas favorite by Pentatonix:
