Games

Introducing “Tuned In” — A Conversation Card Game for Musicians

If you’ve ever attended one of my group classes for my piano students, you know that I like to start with a short ice breaker activity. Often, it’s as simple as asking each student to state their name and their favorite color/animal/book/ice cream flavor.

I think ice breakers are useful for getting people connected. And the best teaching — and the best music-making — happens when people feel connected to one another.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve been experimenting and testing out a new ice breaker activity with my groups — and I’m so excited to finally share it as a new resource in my shop: a printable conversation starter game called Tuned In.

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Group Classes

How I Planned Guest Group Classes for Students I’d Never Met

A colleague recently asked me to lead a series of group classes for her students while she was away for a month. Her goal: keep them engaged with their piano pieces and hopefully practicing in her absence.

While I have a variety of activities and games I draw upon when working with my own students, it proved an interesting challenge to consider what to do with a group of students whom I’d never met. I wanted to come up with activities that would be enjoyable while also musically meaningful.

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