Tag Archives: technology

Tips for Making Your Blog Reader-Friendly [Part 1]

By joy (admin) | Published: 24 February 2011

With today’s advances of technology, there are many new blogs popping up about music, piano teaching, and everything else under the sun.  This is a wonderful thing!  It’s great when people can freely share their expertise, ideas, and resources with others via the web. However, if you’d allow me, I’d like to rant just a [...]

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iPhone & iPod Touch Apps Suggestions, Anyone?

By joy (admin) | Published: 27 January 2011

My husband gave me an iPod Touch for Christmas, and I’ve gradually been downloading various apps to personalize it for the things I do.  It’s very exciting!  I love that I can access my email and the internet easily while I’m on campus, without going to a computer lab or hauling my laptop along with [...]

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10 Fun & Free Musical Fonts

By joy (admin) | Published: 13 December 2010

Looking to spice up your studio documents?  Check out the fun music fonts! 1.   LD Music | This charming font features hints of musical-symbol-likeness.  This font would be perfect for studio newsletters, recital programs, and other studio handouts! 2.   Simple Melody | Shows up as the font “New” once installed.  For some reason, the [...]

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2010 MMTA Conference (5): Technology Tips by Martha Hilley

By joy (admin) | Published: 2 November 2010

What follows are the notes I took from a session with Martha Hilley about Tips for Incorporating Technology Into Your Studio at the 2010 Michigan Music Teachers Association conference.

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Tutorial: Using Audacity Software in the Piano Studio

By joy (admin) | Published: 12 August 2010

A tutorial about how to use Audacity software to capture/record sound and how to make basic edits to audio files, and how to export and share audio files. Audacity is a powerful audio editing software that is available for free download at audacity.soundforge.net. This post also discusses the various uses of the free Audacity software specifically for piano teachers and gives some ideas for further uses of Audacity in the piano studio other than for recording students.

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Roland V-Piano

By joy (admin) | Published: 27 July 2010

Check out this series of 4 videos about Roland’s V-Piano.  They claim: “This is the future of the piano.”  Thoughts?

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A Follow-up on Recording Students Before Performances

By joy (admin) | Published: 19 April 2010

I don’t know about you, but I have some students who are participating in a spring performance coming up soon!  Last week, I recorded my student Jean playing her recital piece during her lesson (click to read more about recording students as preparation for performances).  Then we spent some time listening and discussing the recording. [...]

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