Category Archives: For During the Lesson

Group Piano Class Ideas

By joy (admin) | Published: 30 March 2010
I recently came across this great video/podcast on Mario Ajero’s YouTube channel: an interview with pianist and piano pedagogue Dr. Julie Knerr.  Both Maria Ajero and Julie Knerr are graduates from University of Oklahoma’s widely recognized piano pedagogy program.  In this video, Dr. Knerr shares some of her game ideas for her group piano classes [...]
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Just Added: Write In The Barlines Worksheet #1

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 March 2010
That’s right, a new free printable worksheet has just been added to the Printables > Worksheets page: Write In the Barlines #1 This worksheet is an one I created a few years ago, and I thought I’d share it here for any of you to use!  My students LOVE taking home “extra credit” worksheets (outside [...]
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Teaching 2-Against-3 Using Movement

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 March 2010
In answer to a question a received last week, I thought I’d talk a little bit more about teaching 2 against 3, as I had mentioned in a post about teaching music through movement. To tell you the truth, I have not needed to teach 2 against 3 very often so far, and when I [...]
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Celebrating One Year!

By joy (admin) | Published: 15 March 2010
After browsing through the colorinmypiano.com archives and — alas! — it seems that we’ve missed our own anniversary! Here’s a rundown of the history of the colorinmypiano.com blog: It was on February 28, 2009 that I first conceived of this blog and wrote my first post: a welcome and brief statement of purpose.  I found my [...]
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Free Board Game for Music Students

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 February 2010
Just added to the Printables page: a free piano-bench-sized board game for music students, called Adventures in Music!  I am so thrilled to be offering this game on my website.  This is my first attempt at creating a music game for students, and I’m quite excited about the results. Here’s the lowdown: Designed for 2-4 [...]
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Incorporating Improvisation | Part 5d in the series

By joy (admin) | Published: 5 February 2010
This is a continuation of the series on the topic: incorporating improvisation into private piano teaching.  I had originally planned to post all 4 steps into one post, but the post would be too lengthy.  So the topic “Incorporating Improvisation” is being divided into 4 separate posts: Develop Related Skills Create an atmosphere conducive to [...]
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Incorporating Improvisation | Part 5c in the series

By joy (admin) | Published: 1 February 2010
This is a continuation of the series on the topic: incorporating improvisation into private piano teaching.  I had originally planned to post all 4 steps into one post, but the post would be too lengthy.  So the topic “Incorporating Improvisation” is being divided into 4 separate posts: Develop Related Skills Create an atmosphere conducive to [...]
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Incorporating Improvisation | Part 5b in the series

By joy (admin) | Published: 29 January 2010
This is a continuation of the series on the topic: incorporating improvisation into private piano teaching.  I had originally planned to post all 4 steps into one post, but the post would be too lengthy.  So the topic “Incorporating Improvisation” is being divided into 4 separate posts: Develop Related Skills Create an atmosphere conducive to [...]
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Incorporating Improvisation | Part 5a of the series

By joy (admin) | Published: 25 January 2010
Now to the heart of the discussion!  We’ve already covered some common obstacles encountered when trying to incorporate improvisation, and we’ve briefly discussed the history and the value of improvisation.  Now let’s discuss a practical way to incorporate improvisation (non-jazz improvisation, in particular) into the piano lesson. There are 4 steps in the method I [...]
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Using Adjectives to Capture the Imagination

By joy (admin) | Published: 6 November 2009
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 [...]
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