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Tag Archives: piano teaching

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 [...]
Posted in Early Childhood Music, What I'm Up To | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

Links page has been updated

By joy (admin) | Published: 19 February 2010
The Links page here at colorinmypiano.com has been updated!  I’ve created a new category devoted to sites with free sheet music, preferably for piano. My personal favorite: IMSLP / The Petruccit Library This site contains TONS of sheet music pdfs of the great classical works!  Just this week, for example, I was looking to round out one of [...]
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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 players - [...]
Posted in Beginners/Elementary Level, For During the Lesson, Games, Ideas, Intermediate Level, Music Theory, Other Resources, Printables, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, piano camps | Also tagged , , | 2 Comments

Resources @ musicmotivationblog.com

By joy (admin) | Published: 16 February 2010
At the musicmotivationblog.com, there are a variety of free resources available for teachers and students.  Particularly, there are pdfs of pentascales, chords, chord progressions, scales, etc. in every key.  New resources are added daily, so be sure to visit regularly.  To check the listing of free resources, click here!
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3 Benefits of Incorporating Improvisation | Part 6 of the series

By joy (admin) | Published: 11 February 2010
We’ve arrived at the end of the series on incorporating improvisation!  We’ve already discussed the obstacles, history, and value of improvisation.  And in the last few posts, we discussed at length a practical, 4-part method for incorporating improvisation into the piano lesson.  Today’s consideration is the last of the series: what are the major benefits [...]
Posted in Improving as a Teacher, Improvisation, Memorization, Motivation, Topics in Teaching Piano | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

Things I Learned from a Yeol Eum Son Masterclass

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 February 2010
Last week, my university held a master class by Yeol Eum Son, the silver winner of the 2009 Van Cliburn competition.  I played a Chopin Etude, op.10 no.6.  She gave me a number of specific suggestions which were very helpful, but there were two general concepts I took from the experience: 1. Posture: keep your chest [...]
Posted in Improving as a Teacher, Inspiration, Posture at the Piano, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To | Also tagged , | 5 Comments

My recent find

By joy (admin) | Published: 8 February 2010
Just thought I’d show off my recent find – I was at a outlet store a couple of weeks ago, and I found these laminated boards for students to draw music symbols using a dry erase marker.  One side has the symbols pictured….
Posted in Ideas, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, What I'm Up To | Also tagged , | 2 Comments

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 improvisation Use improvisation [...]
Posted in For During the Lesson, Improving as a Teacher, Improvisation, Topics in Teaching Piano | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

30 Theme Ideas for the Music Studio Events

By joy (admin) | Published: 4 February 2010
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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 improvisation Use improvisation [...]
Posted in For During the Lesson, Improving as a Teacher, Improvisation, Other Resources, Printables, Topics in Teaching Piano | Also tagged , | Leave a comment
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