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 […]
Piano Camp Ideas
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 […]
Highlights from a Week of Piano Camp
It’s impossible to capture all the emotion and energy of a week of piano camp in a video, but I love putting together a highlight video as a reminder to the students and myself of the great week we had together. Here’s our highlight video from last week’s piano camp, To Russia with Mussorgsky and […]
Piano Expeditions Piano Camp – Day 5
It’s hard to believe that the week has come and gone already! Here are highlights from our final day of To Russia with Mussorgsky and His Exhibition: We started by reviewing all the main concepts we’ve learned this week using the ever-popular Eggspert quiz game! A new element for today’s Read-it! time was allowing each […]
