“My dad said I should start with my map pin here because that would give me the most central location for getting to the other destinations.” ~student after the September Surprise “My dad had a question…can you go around the world to the east and come back in on the west?” ~student at the first […]
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Free Music Listening Challenge Game
One of the favorite activities from our September Surprise! this year was the Music Listening Challenge. Teams had 4 minutes to listen to 10 musical excerpts and try to correctly identify the piece title and composer. I’ve added a free download of this Music Listening Challenge game to the Music Matters Blog store, so feel […]
September Surprise! 2023 Highlights
Whew! What a whirlwind it is when the school year starts back up and lessons are in full swing! As usual, we launched our new year of lessons with a September Surprise: We began the evening with the big announcement of this year’s practice incentive theme! This is one of my favorite things to plan […]
3,000 Piano Repertoire Videos
I have a vague recollection of hearing about this project at one point, but I was thrilled to recently rediscover the University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Project! Their description explains, “Over the course of the next few years, we will be posting basically the complete piano teaching repertoire for beginners to intermediate level pianists. In […]
A Highlight Video from Piano Camp
Here’s a brief highlight video from our Piano Expeditions piano camp week of To Italy with Vivaldi and His Four Seasons: Video created with the Splice app. Soundtrack created with AIVA. The full downloadable piano camp package is now available in the Music Matters Blog store as well!
Piano Camp Day 5 – To Italy with Vivaldi and His Four Seasons
We wrapped up our final day of piano camp, To Italy with Vivaldi and His Four Seasons today. It sure has been a blast! Here are a few highlights: On Day 5 we love using a quiz game to see what the students remember from the week. Several of the students who have attended piano […]
