Friday Food for Thought: If you find yourself repeating a “corrective phrase” over and over during a lesson… make sure that you’re also repeating a “praise phrase!” And if you want to bring a visual element to...
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From Sara: Today’s guest post comes to you from a fellow musician, educator, and blogger, Ian R.. This would be a fabulous article to pass along to your studio clients! Hope you enjoy 🙂 Practice makes perfect, as the old saying goes...
Read moreIf you’ve read my blog recently, it’s no secret: over the past four months I’ve been working on a two big projects with Tracy Selle. After approximately 20 hours of Google Hangouts with teachers all over the world, over 100...
Read moreTeaching chords in your studio? Here are 5 creative ways to teach or reinforce chord concepts such as inversions, chord quality, and lead sheet reading. These activities are great for private lessons or group lessons! Best of all: Most of them...
Read moreThis is one of my favorite quotes so far from What Great Teachers Do Differently by Todd Whitaker. We’re reading it right now in our Upbeat Book Club on Facebook. It’s a quick read, but there’s so much to think about! What this...
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Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today is SUCH a weird weather day in my neck of the woods. It’s good to be almost 80 degrees this afternoon, so much for your standard Western Pennsylvania fall weather! Today’s quick post is about 2 of our...
Read moreWell, I finally got around to writing Part 3 of my Gearing Up for Fall series! In Parts 1 and 2 we covered material preparation and fall scheduling. Now it’s time to get into some of the technology we’re using in the studio this year...
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Well, folks… I promised you 3 posts about Gearing Up for Fall. As you can tell from today’s title, that 3rd post hasn’t happened yet. Issues beyond my control keep popping up, and rather than bemoaning the circumstances...
Read moreFall Scheduling. These might be the two most dreaded words in a music teacher’s vocabulary. Close contenders include: Pink Eye. Softball Practice. (Volleyball, Soccer, Baseball, etc…) 61 Keys. Creating a fall schedule can feel like...
Read moreHello blog readers! It’s been a CRAZY busy couple of weeks in the studio. We just finished up our recital this past weekend, and I’ve got a couple projects that need to be wrapped up before I get back to blogging. In the meantime, I...
Read moreSometimes I struggle with keeping Wednesday “wordless.” Over the past 4 months I’ve collected quite a number of pictures from my students’ assignment sheets, and I’ve been meaning to make this collage for a while. So...
Read moreThis morning Tracy Selle announced that she’s keeping the 30% off sale open for her Upbeat Webinars for Piano Teachers until tomorrow, Friday, October 16th. I’ve already been contacted by several readers about my portion of the...
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