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How To Teach Piano to Chatty Cathy
Do you have a “Chatty Cathy” as a piano student? These kinds of piano students are always amusing, are never boring, and are full of amazingly un-related information during their piano lesson time. You know more about them (and their … Continue reading
How to Teach Piano to Mr. Casual McTryitout
Does this sound familiar? You open your piano student’s piano bag and haul out their piano books. The newsletter you sent home with them last week to give to Mom flutters to the ground. Their books have clearly not been … Continue reading
How to Teach Piano to Einstein
All of my piano students are gifted. I know this because their mothers tell me so! All kidding aside, while I adore each of my little “prodigies”, their giftedness is more often in the “gift of gab” category than the … Continue reading
Note Reading Issues ‘No More’ – 7 Solutions For Success
Question: I have a student who has taken almost 10 years of piano with me and claims that she can’t read notes. She is a junior in high school and she starts working on her June recital pieces in September. … Continue reading
How To Teach Piano to the Tongue-Tied
I wouldn’t consider myself to be an overly verbose person. But I never felt more like a blabber mouth than when I first started teaching and had several excessively shy piano students. Apparently I can’t stand silence… so I fill … Continue reading
How To Teach Piano To Space Cadets
My piano studio has enormous windows that look out into our bustling little village. As well as giving my studio a bright and cheery feel, they also allow me to be aware that there is a world beyond my four … Continue reading
How I Learned Piano Pedaling in My Dad’s Old Mazda
Question: I have trouble teaching pedaling to my students. Can you help? Teaching pedaling on the piano is one of the more difficult tasks for many piano teachers. Piano students are very enthusiastic about using the pedal (what a cool … Continue reading
The Piano Teacher Test – Writing is to Reading as Composing is to…
With the exception of fruit roll-ups, “See Spot Run”, and Beanie the class Bunny, I don’t remember much about Grade 2. I’m sure we did reading, writing, and arithmetic, after all, I turned out pretty SMRT… but I can’t remember … Continue reading
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