Category Archives: Piano Students

If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of providing piano student assessments for parents… but the idea of writing out pages and pages of comments has prevented you from doing so, this post is for you! Piano Student Assessment Sheets… … Continue reading »

I tweeted yesterday about a conversation I had had yesterday with a 7 year old piano student.  It went something like this… Me:  ”So, does that sound like a good plan?” (referring to what I would be looking for in … Continue reading »

The topic of youth vs experience has been raised several times in recent weeks, both on the Teach Piano Today blog and around the web, so of course I had to write a post about it… I mean, how controversial, … Continue reading »

Piano teachers spend a lot of their day thinking in segments of time.  30 or 45 minutes is carefully broken down into parts – book work, theory, sight reading, music games, performance preparation.. they all have to fit somewhere!  But … Continue reading »

I came across a great article today called “11 Sounds Your Children Have Never Heard“; a summation of 11 sounds that have all but become extinct.  Check out the list below.  I’m betting you’ll agree that your piano students have … Continue reading »

Let’s not kid ourselves… the piano is NOT an easy instrument to learn. It can chew up and spit out even the most motivated adult student… so imagine how it can sometimes make our youngest musicians feel; disheartened and even … Continue reading »

I adore my little 6 year old piano student who comes at 4:30 on Wednesdays … but I got almost no sleep last night.  I wasn’t quite myself, but had her lesson planned to the minute today – she’s away … Continue reading »

I dreamed of teaching my children to play the piano ever since I dreamed of having children.  In my fantasy my little one would climb up on my lap and gaze at me with adoring eyes “Mommy… please teach me … Continue reading »