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Do Your Piano Parents Receive “Random Emails of Kindness”?
A couple of months back I wrote a post on “random emails of kindness” as a way to inspire and motivate your piano students and their families. At our music school we make “random emails of kindness” a weekly task… … Continue reading
How to Teach Piano to Over-Scheduled Olivia
In order to survive as a piano teacher, you’ll need to know how to teach piano to over-scheduled students. My piano studio hallway has become a hockey gear locker more often than my air fresheners would prefer. I’ve stored trombones, … Continue reading
How To Correct Hand Position in Young Piano Students… It’s Q&A Day!
Question: One of my biggest struggles in piano teaching is hand position. I have tried so many different strategies -discussing and demonstrating the natural round hand shape, playing on their arm, their head, demonstrating on the keys, having them ride … Continue reading
What Piano Teachers Can Learn From My Ponytail Tales
At some point in your life you will be faced with a seemingly impossible hurdle; a challenge that will test the very essence of your being. Six months ago, I came face-to-face with my hurdle… The Piano and the Ponytail … Continue reading
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
Are Your Piano Students Always Playing Catch-Up? It’s Q&A Day!
Question: What is the best way to encourage a child to work on a technique that the ‘lesson book’ has already moved past but the student didn’t really master? Piano students working out of piano method books have approximately two … 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
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