I love the Wall Street Journal as an unusual source of creative and entrepreneural inspiration. On Monday, March 1st, there was an article entitled, At 3M, Innovation Comes in Tweaks in which CEO George Buckley was interviewed about his company and […]
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This is Lesson #6 in the pages that most spoke to me in What Matters Now. While there is a lot of truth to this little adage, I don’t know that I would completely discount the importance of working on our
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The Music Education Blog Carnival is a collection of interesting articles posted by music education bloggers. Each month (except for the summer months) a music ed blogger volunteers to host the “event” on their site. They then parse through submissions and
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As your students prepare for state theory tests, you might be interested in the Major/minor Triad Keyboard Flashcards that are available from this site. Each of these cards shows a piano keyboard with the notes of a triad marked. All
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Natalie has posted a review of my Irish Celebration piece on Music Matters Blog. Thanks, Natalie! You can buy this piece of sheet music from any of the online music dealers, your local music store, or directly from Hal Leonard.Â
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Circle of Fifths Worksheets I’ve recently begun to explain to my students how I choose the order of their scales by using the Circle of Fifths. Basically, I just told them that C is zero accidentals (I don’t show them the
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This is Lesson #5 in the pages that most spoke to me in What Matters Now. I’ve referenced this one at the beginning of the year when I was making 1 year goals. I love her last line, “Don’t worry
I love hearing from students who have played my pieces! Â This is the 2nd group of pictures I have received from a student who learned my Twister piece for his recital last year. Â I had the privilege to hear this
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When I was an undergraduate, I was fascinated with the question about whether music had meaning, was moral, and whether it was effective in communicating meaning or morality. I wrote several papers about this, but when I crossed over into the world
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve come across some great posts and resources related to teaching piano. Â Here are a few of them: * Â Toilet Paper Dynamics: Jason Sifford, a composer and piano teacher has written a great post that
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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!
