And now, to announce the winners of the EasyScales Visual Guides giveaway:
*drumroll*
Congrats! Winners, please check your inbox for an email from me.
If you aren’t one of the winners, you can still order yourself a set of EasyScales! Just visit Jo Tee’s website here for more information.
Now that I have enough students to do so, I have begun holding monthly group lessons with my students. I tried it a few times last year, but ended up with a poor turnout both times. Fortunately, now I have enough students to make it worth the effort. I call them “Piano Parties.”
Right now, any of my students under age 15 are invited. My youngest private students are 4, so this makes for a very wide range of ages! Eventually, my goal would be to split them into groups by age/level, but for now, I am just happy to give them some kind of group lessons. I am keeping them very fun and informal.
Our first one was a back-to-piano pizza party last month, and I completely forgot to blog about it. Oops! 🙂 I’ll tell you about it now. Continue reading “My New Monthly Group Lessons: “Piano Parties””
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing.”
— Louis Armstrong
Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send me a message here.
It has been a little over a year since my husband and I moved to Ohio from Michigan. I have been thinking a lot lately about what it was like to relocate and start a studio from scratch in an unfamiliar area. I’m sure some of you have been through this too, or will be going through it soon — perhaps my reflections can be of encouragement to some of you! Here is what I learned from the experience:
Three new Great Composers Lapbook & Biography sets have been added to the ColorInMyPiano Shop!
They are:
Continue reading “3 New Composer Lapbook sets Now Available”
Today is the day to announce the winners of the Mozart Lapbook & Biography set giveaway!
Here they are:
Winners, please check your inbox for an email from me. Congratulations!
Stay tuned — tomorrow I will be adding three new composer studies to the ColorInMyPiano Shop!
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.”
— Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send me a message here.
Our previous Forum Q&A was about items students like to see in incentive prize boxes. Thanks for all the responses!
It is time for new topic! Our new Forum Q&A topic was submitted by Hannah (thanks so much!):
What do you do for students who stop and get frustrated at every tiny mistake they make? How can we encourage them and help them to know it is okay to make mistakes every now and then? How can we help them find ways to improve and prevent mistakes without stressing further stressing them out?
Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below this post!
Today, I would like to tell you all about the EasyScales Visual Guides, a patent pending product by Jo Tee! Jo Tee is a creative piano teacher from Singapore.
Here is how it works: Continue reading “Review & Giveaway: EasyScales Visual Guides set”
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. 🙂
With my music homeschool class, we have been studying the instruments of the orchestra. We started this endeavor a long time ago, starting with completing the Musical Instruments Workbook. We have also used Robert Levine’s book: The Story of the Orchestra, and frequently played this review game for remembering the names/families of the instruments.
When I found this “stand-up symphony” download from the St. Louis Symphony website, I knew this would be another great way to review the instruments — as well to as learn where the members of the orchestra sit onstage.
This was such a fun class project! Over the course of a couple of months, we cut out the figures, colored them, and then folded/taped them so they could stand. Continue reading “Instruments of the Orchestra Study – FREE Orchestra Stage Pieces”
“Musical training is a more potent instrument for education than any other.”
— Plato
Every Wednesday brings Words of Wisdom here at the Color in my Piano blog in the form of a musical quote or joke, intended to bring inspiration or humor to the middle of your week. Have suggestions? Send me a message here.
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