I’m very excited about the incentive program I started for my students this year. My goal was to encourage them to actually “make music” this year instead of just playing the notes, rhythms, and details correctly. You know the difference! […]
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Jason Sifford, a composer and contributor to the PianoTeaching.com forums, has started a new blog on piano pedagogy. The Piano Pedagogy Page promises “Extremely Random Thoughts on Teaching and Playing the Piano.” Random yes, but important nonetheless. His most recent
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Thank you all for your participation in this giveaway, your interest in the new book, and your very kind comments about Twister and other pieces! I appreciate all of your encouraging words and hope that eventually I will have enough
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Hal Leonard has just released Piano Recital Showcase Pre-Staff book, in which are two of my new pieces. “Cherokee Lullaby” and “Fire Dance” have been very popular in my studio (“Lullaby” is popular with the girls and “Fire Dance” with
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There is a great chart comparing Finale Notepad and MuseScore here. If all is as stated, then it seems that MuseScore is indeed a much better deal since it is free and has fewer limitations. Once again, I have not
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This is the third of the 3 points in Composition for Kids: Time Saving Ways to Encourage Composition in Your Studio. In this segment, we discuss why it is important to develop students’ ears and how to do this. If you
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There are two music notation programs by which all notation programs are measured: Finale and Sibelius. Of course, these two programs can do virtually anything imaginable in music notation, so no free program is going to compare. But, for students
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If you don’t watch any other post in this lecture series, watch this one. This is my favorite point and the point that I believe can make the biggest difference in your studio. In this video, I talk about relating music
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    Evangelical Lutheran Worship’s Piano Introductions and Alternate Accompaniments Volumes 9 and 10 have been released. I have written three settings (769, 802, 811) for Volume 9 and four settings (833, 864, 880, 893) for Volume 10. Several of the tunes were
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This is part 2e in the lecture I gave at the KMTA conference in June. In this segment, I finish talking about the ways in which we can encourage creativity and composition in our studio.  Please be sure to watch the
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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!
