There are now 19 practice incentive themes in the Music Matters Blog store, and for years I have thought about creating short videos as an overview of what each theme entails. I know for me it often helps to see something in action as opposed to just reading about it. But I’ve never gotten around […]
Practice Incentives
Win a Free Practice Incentive Theme Plus All the Studio Decor!
As is my custom when I am wrapping up one practice incentive theme in my piano studio and preparing for the new theme, I’m offering a giveaway of the previous year’s theme along with all of the correlating studio decor and any additional supplies remaining. In this case, that will include the Destination: GPS downloadable […]
New Practice Incentive Theme is Now Available!
Whew! What a whirlwind this spring has been. Our end of year studio recital and cookout has come and gone, and we are only one week away from a week of Piano Expeditions piano camps! With this week off I finished tweaking the practice incentive theme we just wrapped up – Destination: GPS – so […]
Practice Incentive Brings Unusual Blessings
Drawing inspiration from Proverbs 11:25: “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched,” I included an element in this year’s practice incentive theme where students could opt to leave a “Blessing Card” in the destination they were leaving in order to give the next arriving student an opportunity to earn extra coins. This has been a huge […]
Recording Piano Practice with Fruits
One unexpected way that I often see my students’ personalities come out is in their assignment books. We have a custom assignment book that correlates with our practice incentive theme each year, and one of the elements is that they always have to record what they practiced and on which days in order to keep […]
Musical Form & Analysis for Beginning Piano Students
Having been a long-time piano student who graduated from high school with no idea how to tell what key I was playing in, I’ve been determined as a piano teacher to make sure that my students understand music theory. Not in a disconnected fill-in-the-answer-in-the-theory-book way, but in a way that ignites greater understanding and appreciation […]
