I attended and presented at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers last week and learned so much! There have been several sessions in which I thought that if I had attended only that session, the whole institute would have been […]
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As expected, I had a wonderful time with all my old and new friends at the SMU Institute for Piano Teachers. It was such an honor to be invited to share at the Institute and I learned so much from
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This is a wonderful collection of advice from Ira Glass, writer and host of This American Life. It’s great advice to the young songwriters that I trained last week, and even continues to be good advice for me though more
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My students just finished their week of our Songwriting Workshop and we used Finale Notepad 2012 (free) to make lead sheets. While this is a very helpful tool, it has many limitations, so I wanted to outline the other Finale
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Guess what I found this week?! It’s the perfect one minute timer for our Minute to Win It games that were such a hit in our spring group lesson. The timer beeps every 5 seconds (and it’s loud enough for
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Looking for a quick and easy game for your beginning, intermediate, and advancing students? Here’s a few that are available on ComposeCreate.com which I rarely mention, but teachers love: Fishy Flashcards Young students loves this familiar carnival game! Students can fish
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Piano tuition made easy! No more charging by the week, learn how to create a firm policy for piano tuition and tips on implementing it in your studio.
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Why You Should Institute Yearly Piano Lesson Price Increases This article is first in a series of posts that are a follow-up to the workshops I’m giving this summer and fall called, “Best Stress-free Business Practices in 2012.” In a
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At our KMTA conference this year, I was asked to present a short session about all the resources that are on the ComposeCreate blog for helping students prepare for the Kansas Music Progressions, the Washington Audition Examinations, and the North
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The Newton Music Teachers Association recently commissioned me to write an intermediate piece for their monster concert. Â Hal Leonard has published this piece along with 4 other duets from Phillip Keveren, Eugenie Rocherolle, and Sondra Clark in a new book
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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!
