Have you ever been to a national piano pedagogy conference? If you have, you know how energizing it can be to your teaching! If you have not, perhaps it’s because you think it might be too expensive. Well, I’d like […]
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Dorla Aparicio and I had corresponded several times prior to the SMU Institute. I had adored her beautiful website for some time and it was a particular delight to meet her this last week. I asked her to share a
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This is the second article in the “Can’t Teach Without…” series. I have two whiteboards in my studio and I can’t imagine teaching without either of them! Both are magnetic which is important so that I can use all the
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I attended and presented at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers last week and learned so much! There have been several sessions in which I thought that if I had attended only that session, the whole institute would have been
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As expected, I had a wonderful time with all my old and new friends at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers. It was such an honor to be invited to share at the Institute and I learned so much from
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This is a wonderful collection of advice from Ira Glass, writer and host of This American Life. It’s great advice to the young songwriters that I trained last week, and even continues to be good advice for me though more
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My students just finished their week of our Songwriting Workshop and we used Finale Notepad 2012 (free) to make lead sheets. While this is a very helpful tool, it has many limitations, so I wanted to outline the other Finale
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Guess what I found this week?! It’s the perfect one minute timer for our Minute to Win It games that were such a hit in our spring group lesson. The timer beeps every 5 seconds (and it’s loud enough for
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Looking for a quick and easy game for your beginning, intermediate, and advancing students? Here’s a few that are available on ComposeCreate.com which I rarely mention, but teachers love: Fishy Flashcards Young students loves this familiar carnival game! Students can fish
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Piano tuition made easy! No more charging by the week, learn how to create a firm policy for piano tuition and tips on implementing it in your studio.
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The Great Fuzzy Event of 2026!
You will not believe what we released at this premier event! Four new Fuzzies solos, a new and FREE incentive program, summer ideas, new resources and so much more! Even the replay is super fun!
