For many families, April marks the beginning of a very busy season. New sports begin and school starts ramping up for a final push before summer (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere). Distractions from piano lessons seem to pop up everywhere.
And as it turns out, this is further complicated by the fact that around this time many families decide if they’ll be continuing piano lessons into the next school year.
Which is why there is no better time of the year to start using some serious out-of-the-box piano repertoire. This month we just released My Piano Teacher Thinks She’s A Ninja – Tunes For Teaching Technical Tricks. Check out the video preview below and then keep reading to see the music. (Note: don’t forget to turn up the volume)
My Piano Teacher Thinks She’s A Ninja
Do you have piano students who love a good challenge, who get excited about “showing their stuff”, and who could really benefit from some focused attention on technique? “My Piano Teacher Thinks She’s a Ninja” is your repertoire solution!
Now that you’re armed with this set of pieces designed to focus on “Technical Tricks”, your piano students will be honing their skills… like a ninja!
Each short piece targets a specific technical ability, giving you the motivating repertoire you need to engage your students while polishing their technical skills like a Ninja Grand Master. Each piece is preceded by a “Piano Ninja Training Page”, providing three steps to mastering the technical trick before it is placed within the context of the piece. This book includes two versions of every piece; one with a key signature and one where accidentals are used in place of a key signature to enable many different levels of students to participate.
Click the image below to flip through sample pages of the book.
Note: My Piano Teacher Thinks She’s A Ninja is no longer available but you can check out this month’s book by clicking on the image below.
Shelley says
April 15, 2015 at 7:32 amCool, looking forward to this! This piano teacher is a black belt in Karate so it’s right up my ally!
Andrea says
April 15, 2015 at 9:24 amToo cool Shelley! Your piano kids will love that connection 🙂
Sandra says
April 15, 2015 at 7:56 amMy younger students will love this. Your post today jogged my memory. (I’ve been intending to print these pieces out for them..)
Lindsay says
April 19, 2015 at 9:40 pmMy kids love these! My violinist even learned one, and my untrained 5 year old is working on it. These songs are brilliant for practicing the technique but also interesting and fun to play!