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Category Archives: For During the Lesson
Using Adjectives to Capture the Imagination
One of the ideas I’ve been exploring extensively throughout the research I’m doing for my paper for college (the one about improvisation) is making music musical. This seems so obvious, but really, what would music be without musicality? Check out this video, of a robot playing the violin.
Speaking of which, have you ever had students [...]
Also posted in Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Interpretation, Motivation, Resources / Links, The Power of Music, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To Tagged music students, musicality, piano teaching Leave a comment
Creativity in the Piano Lesson | Part 1 of the series
I’ve been reading a lot about improvisation (non-jazz, particularly) and creativity in the piano lesson lately, as I’ve been working on a paper for my Into to Music Research class for college. It’s interesting to me how today there seems to be a trend for exact, literal performances of composers’ works. It was not always [...]
Also posted in Composition, Improvisation, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To Tagged Composition, Improvisation, piano, piano teaching Leave a comment
Highlights from Michigan Music Teachers Conference 2009
This past weekend was the Michigan Music Teachers Association 124th State Conference, taking place in Bay City, Michigan. A couple of my fellow college piano pedagogy majors and I drove over to Bay City on Monday, to hear the conferences of the day. Conferences are so great because they give you all sorts of new [...]
Also posted in Current Events, Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Inspiration, Practicing, Topics in Teaching Piano Tagged music, piano teaching Leave a comment
Just Added! Flashcards: Naming Notes (Middle C Position)
Just added to the Printables > Other Resources page:
Flashcards: Naming Notes (Middle C Position)
There are two pages in this file:
Page 1: Contains 10 flashcards for reinforcing the notes of the Middle C position (i.e., Bass F through Treble G).
Page 2: Contains the “answers” to the note name flashcards, to be printed onto the backside of Page 1.
This [...]
Also posted in Beginners/Elementary Level, By Student's Level, Ideas, Other Resources, Printables Tagged flashcards, music, piano teaching Leave a comment
Just Added! Flashcards: Melodic Patterns 1 & 2
Just added to the Printables > Other Resources page:
Flashcards: Melodic Patterns 1
Flashcards: Melodic Patterns 2
These flashcards (pictured at right) are my absolute favorite. They have a variety of uses, mainly for beginner piano students:
For beginner students who understand quarter and half note rhythms: Ask the student to simply clap the rhythm they see.
For beginner students who are [...]
Also posted in Beginners/Elementary Level, By Student's Level, Ideas, Other Resources, Printables Tagged flash cards, games, music, piano teaching Leave a comment
Free Board Game for Music Students