Summer is just around the corner and we are gearing up for our third year of Piano Expeditions. This year we’ll be traveling To London with Handel and His Messiah. I’m thrilled with how the workbooks turned out; the students always love having their own workbook to learn from and as a memento from the […]
Piano Camp Ideas
Heartbeat Rhythms – a hands-on dictation activity to help students understand musical pulse and rhythms
Ever since I came across D’Net Layton’s post on rhythm blocks many years ago, I’ve had it in mind to make a similar rhythm resource for my studio. Wood blocks cut to size were a bit more ambitious and space-consuming than what I wanted to create, but after lots of pondering and experimenting in the […]
Free Full-Sized Piano Keyboard
In preparing for piano camp this year, I searched far and wide to find a full-sized piano keyboard that I could use for some music theory games and activities. The few options that I found were much more than I wanted to pay, so I decided to see if I could create a simple printable […]
It’s Piano Camp Planning Time!
Is anyone else starting to think about and make plans for summer yet? One of our favorite studio events of the year is summer piano camp. I started holding piano camps many years ago as a way of changing up piano lessons during the summer. We’ve done a wide variety of camp themes over the […]
Free Piano Sheet Music for Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals
Anyone who’s been around here for a while knows that I’m a huge fan of Carnival of the Animals. I’ve used it as the theme for a regular summer piano camp for my students and also for the Piano Expeditions piano camp – To France with Saint-Saëns and His Carnival. Even before that, I used […]
Look Out for Low Notes Music Book for Kids is Here!
A couple of years ago I had the privilege of reviewing what has become my favorite kids book about music: Here Come the High Notes. It was the first in a series of books by Marin Marka of FableNotes, and I’ve been eagerly awaiting her second book ever since. Well, I’m thrilled to announce that […]
