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A Mallet, a Piano, and a Terrified Teacher
Imagine the excitement on the faces of your youngest piano students when you open up your piano, give them a mallet (xylophone…not kitchen!) and tell them to smack those strings. While a mallet in the hand of the wrong student … Continue reading
Tomorrow’s Rock Star Might Be Sitting At Your Piano Bench Today
Walk in to any preschool piano lesson and you’re almost guaranteed to hear two beautiful voices, one young and one… not so young… belting out everything from Baby Beluga to Down by the Bay. Walk in to any teenage piano … Continue reading
15 Ways to Make Your Piano Lessons Wonderfully Different This Week
The start of the piano teaching year is behind us. The excitement of new books, new pieces, and new teachers has waned. Now piano lessons are part of the weekly “routine”. I hate the word “routine”. It’s boring. It’s commonplace. … Continue reading
What Piano Teachers Can Learn From Dick and Jane…
In another life I taught elementary school. That was a tough gig… to put it mildly. While I hated tying shoes and opening Fruit Roll-ups, I loved teaching children to read. And while I never regret my decision to pursue … Continue reading
When Mozart Met Lady Gaga – Now Everyone’s Happy
Has the battle ended? Has someone found a way for classical and popular repertoire to exist peacefully in our piano teaching studios? I am going to cautiously say… maybe! All joking aside, let’s be honest, our piano students get inspired … Continue reading
How Experimentation and Innovation Brought Us Piano Teaching Success
If you ask my wife, she’ll tell you that I try to reinvent our piano programs on a weekly basis. I drive her crazy. I can be very frustrating because I’m kind of the “idea-guy-who-doesn’t-always-follow-through” which makes her the “exhausted-lady-who-follows-through-with-all-the-zany-ideas”! … Continue reading
Does this make me old?…
There are many things that remind me that I can no longer consider myself young. The nostalgic feeling I get when I hear the “Friends” theme song is one of them… sigh! (note: there is a piano teaching connection here, … Continue reading
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