It’s time to announce the winner of the Noteworks app giveaway… *drumroll*
Congrats, Julie! Please check your inbox for an email from me.
Thank you to everyone who entered and shared ideas about improving your students’ note identification skills. It was so fun to read all the comments!
Still interested in the Noteworks app for iPad? Hop over to the iTunes store — at $4.99, this app is definitely worth it. 🙂
Time to announce the winners of the Speakbeat giveaway! These five lucky commenters have won a promo code to download the Speakbeat app for free:
Congrats! Check your inbox for an email from me. 🙂
SpeakBeat – Cost: $1.99. View it in the iTunes store here.
SpeakBeat is a metronome app, but with a twist: it “speaks” the beats! Just choose the time signature and choose whether you’d like sub beats counted (the “and’s,” “one-and-a’s,” and the “one-e-and-a’s”) or not. The tempo can be adjusted from 20-240 bpm. There are also 8 different voices to choose from in the settings: a variety of male and female voices, as well as a few fun ones like Darth Vader and Kermit the Frog! The app’s interface is easy to navigate and quite nice-looking.
We all know the value of having students count aloud as they play, right? Counting aloud does more than self-correct the student’s rhythm — it also teaches students to be play in awareness of the meter. (See more about my thoughts regarding teaching rhythm here.) Continue reading “Review & Giveaway: SpeakBeat app”
I am completely blown away by (1) the number of entries in last week’s giveaway (over 100!), and (2) all of the wonderfully ideas you shared for motivating to students to practice! (Check out all the responses here!) It’s so great to be a part of this teaching community online. We benefit SO much from sharing with each other!
And now, to announce the two randomly-chosen winners of Andrea & Trevor Dow’s wonderful piano practice book:
Congrats! Winners: expect an email from Andrea soon!
Just a little reminder…the giveaway of Andrea & Trevor’s pdf book “Shhh…Your Piano Teacher Thinks This Is Practice” ends tonight at midnight EST! If you haven’t entered yet, you’d better do so soon. The winner will be announced tomorrow.
I know my summer posts have been a little far and few between, and mostly about camp stuff…it has been a very busy and unpredictable summer so far. 🙂 I will probably be back to my usual kinds of posts come September – so bear with me in the meantime!
I hope you are enjoying your summer!
Andrea & Trevor Dow of Teach Piano Today have recently created a resource called, “Shhh…Your Piano Teacher Thinks This Is Practice.” She kindly sent me a copy to review, so I’m going to tell you about it — and give you a chance to win your own copy!
First, here is Andrea’s description of the pdf book:
The book contains 88 activities that are absolutely, positively, most definitely NOT BORING! and are designed to get students excited about spending time on the piano at home. They act as a companion to a piano students’ regular practice, and have been created to to be used with any level and any age for 88 days! Also, when teachers receive Shhhh… Your Piano Teacher Thinks This Is Practice they also receive a license to reproduce unlimited copies, as long as it is for use within their personal studio.
Each page of the book has a practice activity designed to encourage repetition during practice (without the student realizing it) and help them think about their piece in a different way (like asking them to find all the C’s in their piece, or practice the rhythm of the LH). Some of the activities also encourage students to share their music, by asking students to play a piece for a family member. Continue reading “July 2012 Giveaway: Shhh…Your Piano Teacher Thinks This Is Practice”
My goodness, because of those two weeks I took off from blogging, I completely forgot to draw the winners of the “Matthew 6:33 Piano Teacher” eBook giveaway! Sorry about the delay. Here are the 5 winners:
Congrats to our winners! Winners — stay tuned for an email from the eBook’s author.
Just wanted to take a moment to announce the two winners of the sheet music necklace giveaway from last week. The winners are commenters #12 and #25: Erica and Becky! Congrats, ladies! Please check your inboxes for an email from me.
Many of you were curious about how I made the necklaces, so I will try to get a post up about that eventually. 🙂
Early next week, I’ll be traveling to Michigan to give a presentation for a couple of local music teachers associations back home. My presentation is called, “Business Sense for Piano Teachers of the 21st Century.” Wish me luck! I might take a couple of days off from blogging, depending on how busy the weekend turns out to be.
Have a great weekend, all!
We’re still celebrating our three-year anniversary here at Color In My Piano, and today we are finishing off the week with one more giveaway! Two winners will be selected in this giveaway to receive one of the reversible necklaces pictured below:
One side is a green damask paper and the other is vintage sheet music.
Today’s post brings a new Forum Q&A topic, and another GIVEAWAY!
Our last Forum Q&A discussion was about perfectionism. It’s never too late to add your thoughts to the comments, so feel free to hop over there and join in the conversation! I plan to follow up with an article on perfectionism to discuss this topic further at some point, but haven’t gotten to it yet! So many ideas, so little time… 🙂
Today’s new Q&A topic is about assignment notebooks. I’m curious –
What is your method of writing down assignments for students? Do you use a notebook (if so, any particular size/type?) or do you have a custom-made sheet you designed on the computer? What kinds of things are usually included on a typical assignment?
Today’s giveaway is a pair of decorative balls, decoupaged by hand with vintage sheet music: Continue reading “Forum Q&A: Assignment Notebook/Pages for Students”
Today marks the three-year anniversary of Color In My Piano! HOORAY! It’s been such an exciting year, and I’m so thrilled to have been able to share my experiences with you all. Thank you all for your support and for making this blog such a fun place to share resources and ideas with each other. I can hardly believe Color In My Piano has been online for three years already.
Below is a run-down of the history of the Color In My Piano blog, as well as details about a GIVEAWAY! Read on. Continue reading “Celebrating 3 Years!”
Congratulations to….
Laura!
I have just sent you an email that you are the winner!! Andrea Dow will send you your Fearless Fortissimo pdf soon.
Thanks everyone for your wonderful comments!
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