Monthly Archives: August 2010

An interview with fellow grad student Loretta Lanning

By joy (admin) | Published: 13 August 2010
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An video interview with fellow grad student Loretta Lanning, discussing her thoughts on “Piano Teaching as a Profession.” This video was recorded and edited using iMovie.

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Tutorial: Using Audacity Software in the Piano Studio

By joy (admin) | Published: 12 August 2010

A tutorial about how to use Audacity software to capture/record sound and how to make basic edits to audio files, and how to export and share audio files. Audacity is a powerful audio editing software that is available for free download at audacity.soundforge.net. This post also discusses the various uses of the free Audacity software specifically for piano teachers and gives some ideas for further uses of Audacity in the piano studio other than for recording students.

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Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom

By joy (admin) | Published: 11 August 2010
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New: subscribe for daily OR weekly email updates!

By joy (admin) | Published: 10 August 2010

New!  You now have the option to subscribe to either daily OR weekly Color In My Piano updates via email.  Weekly updates might be just the thing for you if you want to stay updated with what’s new at Color In My Piano, but do not want your inbox cluttered with emails from each day. [...]

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SUMMARY | July Monthly Forum: Discussing Method Books

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 August 2010

Read about what readers posted concerning their thoughts about various piano methods, and also check out the list of questions to ask yourself when evaluating piano methods to use with your students. This post serves as the summary of the July 2010 Monthly Forum topic: Discussing Method Books.

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Wednesday’s Words of Wisdom

By joy (admin) | Published: 4 August 2010
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Just Added: “Listen & Sign” Game Printable

By joy (admin) | Published: 4 August 2010

Just added to the Printables page: “The Listen & Sign Game.” This printable corresponds to the game originally described in this post – a game I used in a Piano Mini-Camp held about a month ago. 

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I’m back!

By joy (admin) | Published: 3 August 2010

Have you missed me?  Due to some technological difficulties, I’ve been unable to post blog entries since late last week.  I’m so relieved to finally have things worked out! Due to the delay, however, our July monthly forum is being extended until (probably) Thursday – so if you’d still like to share your thoughts about [...]

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