The March special for Hal Leonard includes 40% off the Easy Hymn Solos series. If you haven’t used this series before, you might be surprised to find musical arrangements of hymns at elementary levels! These are not just hymn tunes
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How To Compose A Good Melody In a recent Composition Corner post, I talked about 5 problems that students often have when writing melodies or writing pieces. Today, I would like to start to give you some general components how
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Today’s inspiration point is from Lewis Carroll: When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental
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This excerpt from “Life after graduate school: The importance of a Mentor” is written by Kristin Yost (soon to be featured in a series of ComposeCreate posts on finances). Kristin is the founder and executive director of Centre for Musical
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Mona Rejino has a new book out that looks like just plain fun for everyone! The book is Just for Kids and features elementary pieces about all kinds of favorite activities of children. I think this is going to be
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Thank you again for inviting me to speak to your group on “Growing a More Musical Studio.” I have learned much in the last few years as I have strived to teach my students to play more musically and I
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Today’s Inspiration Point comes from Beethoven, Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
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If you are a member of the Hal Leonard Teacher VIP club, you probably already know that they are running a 40% special on the Composer Showcase and Piano Recital Showcase series. American Portraits is in this series, so you might want
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Betsy, a teaching friend of mine, wrote to me recently and said that a student of hers played Twister at a winter recital and loved it. She said that it was a good piece for helping her learn to loosen
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Thank you to all my Facebook friends who answered the question, “How would you define the word “musical” to someone who is not a professional musician?” I appreciate you for helping me brainstorm definitions of “musical.” In my upcoming lecture,
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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!
