If you use Twitter, you’ll want to follow @PrimaMusic! You can save an extra 10% by using their special Twitter code through the end of September. Prima music is an online music retailer with excellent customer service! They emailed me
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Hal Leonard has published a new series of mine called Easy Hymn Solos! I am so excited about this series because there are 10 solos in each book and each of them are actual arrangements of sacred music rather than just
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Since I blogged about incentives, there has been quite a bit of discussion in emails, comments, and other forums about what kinds of things teachers use to award their students. Many teachers want to make sure that the awards incentivize
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Many teachers have asked where they can get the Composer Bucks or Music Money that I referenced in my post about my 2009 incentive. Here are a couple of resources: Free Music Money – Susan Paradis has a wonderful site
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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
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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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!
