With all that technology can do for us today, you would have thought that we could tune our pianos with something electronic or digital before now. But ask any piano tuner about how “stretching” the intervals between the octaves in
Are Piano Tuners Days Numbered? Read More »
Question: I am trying to increase the number of daytime/adult students to expand my teaching hours and income. I live in an area with lots of children, but also a sizable retiree population. What do you think of offering discounts
Understanding and Attracting Retired Adult Students Read More »
A few weeks ago, I told you about a survey that the Butler Student Chapter was doing in regard to online marketing. They sent this as a follow-up and with a little more information about their session at MTNA this
Butler Survey Results Read More »
Last week, I received this email from a teacher in New York: My young student is in Unit 2 and this week was LOVING “howling like a wolf.” After we finished the page, which was adorable, trust me….she looked at
Rhythm Menagerie Gets the Best Compliment Read More »
The Dollars and Sense feature of ComposeCreate.com has been running for over a year now and I thought that spring break might be a nice time to give you an index of articles. This is also a great time to
Index of Dollars & Sense Articles Read More »
I rarely pre-order a book, but the new book by Jonah Lehrer Imagine: How Creativity Works intrigues me enough that I pre-ordered today. It’s set to be released in just days, March 19th. I read the very interesting essay How to
Fantastic Article on “Imagine: How Creativity Works” Read More »
Marketing Piano Lessons to Homeschool Students Here are some things I have learned that affect how your marketing piano lessons to homeschool families when you are marketing piano lessons to homeschool students: Ah yes, we all want to have a first
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Remember the highlighter tape that I’ve raved about and recommended before? Well, Art from the Avid Aviator site has let me know that he now has an entire site devoted to highlighter tape now called HighlighterTapes.com. The tape we love
New Site for Highlighter Tape Read More »
Q&A with Kristin Yost and Wendy Stevens Answer #1 by Kristin Yost Some teachers think that their piano lesson rates should be kept secret, and I completely disagree. If you are a member of a music teacher association it should
How Do I Find Out Going Rates? Read More »
You’ve probably already seen me announce this on my Facebook page, or perhaps have seen it announced by all the many wonderful piano teaching bloggers out there, but Finale Notepad 2012 is now free! Download it here. Here’s what Finale
Finale Notepad 2012 is Now Free! Read More »
Merry to Moody:
Holiday music for everyone!
Tired of the usual holiday music?This free webinar is just for you! Lots of new, original, and classic holiday, winter, and seasonal music will wow your students onto the bench! And you'll love the new audience participation piece as well!
