Check out this announcement at the ComposeCreate.com blog: Wendy Stevens has written a new adult piano book entitled: Returning to the Piano: A Refresher Book for Adults. I often have a hard time deciding what adult method to use with my adult students. Especially when they aren’t true beginners and have had previous experience with [...]
Just added: a new free, printable worksheet called: > Performing at the Piano Worksheet Just in time for the spring recital season, this fill-in-the-blank worksheet is intended to help prepare students for an upcoming recital or other performance by discussing stage presence and performance etiquette. Terms/concepts covered in the worksheet: Memorizing Applause Bowing Checking the [...]
A colleague of mine and I are planning to learn some four-handed piano music this summer, and perhaps do a whole recital together of just four-handed music in the fall semester. So I’ve been digging around on YouTube, looking for repertoire ideas. And I have couple of cool videos to share with you today: What [...]
I just discovered these manuscript copies of Bach’s 2-part inventions over at the IMSLP’s Petrucci Music Library. I always find free pdfs of music scores that I need on their site, but I never realized that they also have pdfs of some hand-written manuscript copies to download as well! Although this is not Bach’s handwriting, [...]
A new free worksheet has just been added to the Printables page: Navigating at the Keyboard. This worksheet is for young beginners who have only just recently been exposed to piano. This worksheet is designed to help them become familiar with the layout of the keyboard so that they can locate and identify the keys [...]
Susan Paradis from the Piano Teacher Resources blog has written has excellent review of the The Perfect Start for Piano by Kevin & Julia Olson, a series of books intended for reinforcing note-reading on the staff for beginners and elementary level students. They look great – I love that fact that they are designed to [...]
I don’t know about you, but I have some students who are participating in a spring performance coming up soon! Last week, I recorded my student Jean playing her recital piece during her lesson (click to read more about recording students as preparation for performances). Then we spent some time listening and discussing the recording. [...]
Many of us teachers are probably currently preparing our student for spring recitals, so today I thought it might be beneficial to discuss a way of preparing for performances: recording your students playing their pieces, and then listening to the playback together. Benefits of Recording The student practices performing. Playing for a recording device can [...]
This week, I recently stumbled upon some great blogs about piano teaching to add to my blogroll. Some are new, and other have been around for a while, but they all have wonderful things to share! Jen’s Piano Studio Blog – lots of game ideas and free resources.
Joy is a pianist and teacher in Ohio with great passion for helping students experience the wonders of music making!
