Sale on Books
Kristin Yost’s book How I Made $100k My First Year as a Piano Teacher is now on sale at the PianoAccents store. In addition Neeki Bey’s Africa piano book is also on sale for only $11. This book contains 10 classic […]
Laminating Rhythm Drills
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me until now, but a great way to save money on printing rhythm drills and Rhythm Menagerie would be to print them on card stock and then laminate them! Then, students
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Holiday Challenge Update
My students are so excited about the Holiday Sight Reading Challenge I issued a few weeks ago. I love that I can use this idea for sight reading or next year for practice, extra credit challenges, etc. It’s a very
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ComposeCreate® is on Google+
If you have a gmail address, you’ll want to get in on the new Google+ social network! It’s far cleaner and easier to make sense of than some of the other social networks. Plus, there are great “hangout” features which
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What’s Worth Reading
I always appreciate when other bloggers link back to this blog. But it’s been a while since I’ve linked back to anyone but Susan Paradis’ wonderful blog, so I wanted to give you some links to a little of what’s
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Holiday Sight Reading Challenge
On the goal setting form I had students fill out in August, many of my students expressed that they wanted to be better sight readers. In the past few months, my students have participated in a Christmas Sight Reading Challenge
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Is Rhythm Menagerie for Private Lessons or Groups?
I’ve been asked this question a few times since the launch of Rhythm Menagerie, so I thought I’d let you know that Rhythm Menagerie was designed to be used in private lessons, though it does work well in groups. Some
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Thanksgiving Melodic Dictation
In case you missed it in the Candy Corn Polyphony post, I wanted to let you know that there are new Melodic Dictation activities on the Web Rewards pages. There are now Level 6 and Level 7 melodic dictation samples
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Candy Corn Polyphony
This week, we had our fall group lessons and I had a fun time tweaking our games to go with a fall theme. I had a particularly good time figuring out what to do with my older kids who were
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A Fun Christmas Jingle Bells Project
This year, I’ve decided to make “Creativity at Christmas” my theme for this year’s Christmas recital. I have a whole list of creative projects that students will be encouraged to participate in and many of these will be shared at
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