Tag Archives: classes

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 [...]
Posted in Beginners/Elementary Level, By Student's Level, For During the Lesson, Games, Group Keyboard, Ideas, Improvisation, Intermediate Level, Motivation, Resources / Links, Rhythm, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, music theory, piano camps | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Babies and Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 25 March 2010
Check out this interesting news article, reporting about a research study done on babies and their response to rhythm versus speech.  Here’s the summary from another site reporting on the same research: Human infants are born to dance, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Psychologists from the United Kingdom [...]
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Just Added: Hands & Fingers at the Piano Worksheet

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 March 2010
Just added: a new free worksheet, available on the Printables > Worksheets page: Hands & Fingers at the Piano This worksheet is suitable for use with new young beginners, either in the private lesson setting or in the classroom piano setting.  (I would not recommend using this worksheet with older students, because there is only [...]
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Early Childhood Online Resources

By joy (admin) | Published: 19 March 2010
I’ve been digging around online lately, looking for early childhood music resources.  (Yes, I’m sorry – I’m still on this kick!) Look what I found!  TONS of great links: Songs / Sheet Music MakingMusicFun.com – free printable sheet music with lyrics of all kinds of children’s songs Kididdles.com – free printable sheet music, lyrics, with corresponding [...]
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Music & Movement: Inseparable!

By joy (admin) | Published: 11 March 2010
One of the reasons I’ve been considering offering early childhood music classes is because I am a firm believer in the strong relationship between music and movement.  As an undergrad, I took two semester of Dalcroze Eurhythmics which I found incredibly useful.  We learned movements that fit different meters and learned to respond expressively to [...]
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Early Childhood Music Classes

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 March 2010
Lately, I’ve been considering offering pre-piano music classes for children and their parents — someday, when I have a private studio in my home again (Right now, I teach piano privately through my university’s community music school.).  My goal in providing these classes someday is to better prepare young children (think ages 0-5, especially) for [...]
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