Have you ever launched into a new school year full of enthusiasm and carefully planned goals for your students only to have your expectations dashed to pieces by a sheepish admission that they didn’t practice at all? You wonder if their lack of effort is a harbinger of the year to follow. Will it be […]
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Boogie-Woogie is Back! – Guest Post by flowkey
At flowkey we love helping fans of all genres get inspired and learn from piano greats. In our new Featured Artist series, we highlight different genres and pianists, showcasing their skill in beautiful piano music videos. We’re excited to kick off the series with Arthur Migliazza, our favorite award-winning boogie-woogie pianist from New York: ?? […]
Split End Arpeggios at the Piano
One of the approaches that I encourage my students to use to help them become fluent in piano arpeggios is a hands together pattern that one of my teachers showed me years ago. I could never remember the name of them, so I finally tasked one of my creative students with determining a name and […]
Student Favorites to Wrap-up the Year
Since this was our last week of lessons (next week we have our Year-End Evaluations) I let each of the students choose what they wanted to do for the lesson. Several (not surprisingly!) chose games. They love to skim the 5 for Fun! Games and Activities for the Private Piano Lesson book for ideas! One […]
The Creative Juices are Flowing!
After seeing Alyssa’s creative composition a few weeks ago, Stephanie and Claire were inspired to create their own musical sketch for a fun duet they were working on. They polished up their performance of Jalapeno Hop by Melody Bober and Stephanie drew the artwork for the accompanying story about a couple of jalapeno museum robbers. […]
A Creative Composition Project
In case anyone here didn’t already know how in love I am with the Piano Safari method, I thought I would share a highlight from the lesson this week with my new beginning student Alyssa. We learned the piece, Outer Space from the Level 1 book over the last couple of weeks. Outer Space is […]
