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Tag Archives: music
Early Childhood Music Classes
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 [...]
Posted in Early Childhood Music, What I'm Up To Also tagged classes, early childhood, piano teaching 1 Comment
12 Tips for Memorizing Piano Music
I’ll be the first one to admit: memorizing music does not come easily to me. I really have to work at it, and it takes a lot of time. Over the past couple of years, I have been reading and trying out everything I could find about memorizing music, and I’ve come up with a [...]
Free Board Game for Music Students
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 players - [...]
30 Theme Ideas for the Music Studio Events
Here’s a list of 30 theme ideas for music studio events! Themes can be used as the studio theme for the school year, or for summer music camps, or for studio recitals. If used for the studio theme for the whole year, there are a number of ways the theme can be incorporated: the incentive [...]
Posted in Group Keyboard, Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Incentive Programs, Inspiration, Motivation, Music History, Recitals / Performances, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, piano camps Also tagged activity, camp, game, group lessons, Ideas, Incentive Programs, party, piano, piano teaching, recital, studio, summer, teacher, theme Leave a comment
Free New Age Piano mp3s
I recently came across an interesting site containing free mp3s of new age solo piano music. What a great resource to pass on to my piano students! It’s important for students to listen to a wide variety of music, but often they are only exposed to pop music. New age piano music is bound to [...]
Upcoming Poster Session @ Mich. Music Conference
Remember that improvisation paper for school that I’m been mentioning here and there? Well, I’ve been accepted to present my research findings at the poster session on January 22 as part of the 2009 Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan! I don’t know if any of you Michiganders out there are planning on attending [...]
Posted in Current Events, Improving as a Teacher, Improvisation, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To Also tagged Improvisation, piano teaching Leave a comment
Organizing your Music Books
How do your organize your library of music books? About a month ago, I purchased a new bookshelf (see photo) for my music, because most of my books were still in boxes with no place to go since our move to our new apartment. In just a few hours, I managed to re-organize all my [...]
Posted in Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Repertoire/Method Books, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To Also tagged music library, piano teaching, sheet music, teachers Leave a comment
Make Business Cards for Your Music Studio
Having business cards on hand is a convenient and professional way to give your contact information to potential students and their parents. Here’s a simple, clean template for making your own business cards for your music studio!
Printables > Other Resources > Business Cards Template for Music Teachers
This template is a Microsoft Word (.doc) file, [...]
Posted in Other Resources, Printables, Topics in Teaching Piano Also tagged business cards, music studio, piano teaching, teachers, teaching music Leave a comment
Practicing for juries…
The end of the semester at college is near! I’m been working hard on my piano pieces for juries (the end-of-the-semester for music majors). Take a listen:
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Music & Movement: Inseparable!