I wanted to tell you about a Christmas new release of my friend and frequent guest writer Kevin Costley. It seems to have been released a bit later than many Christmas books, but I know you’ll want to check it
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Since the topic this week is encouraging creativity in our students at Christmas time, I thought I’d re-post the “Theme and Variations” challenge that we completed in my studio last year. It was great fun and there is still time
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Thank you to all you students who submitted artwork for the 2010 Christmas Cover Art Contest. This year we chose to have an animal theme, so each picture was to incorporate animals into a Christmas idea. Since there was only
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Every few years, my students do a creative “Story in Sound” project for our Christmas recital. It is very easy to implement and the students and audience seem to enjoy it immensely. It’s not too late to do this for
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Betsy Streeter, is an artist and designer who has worked in film, video, animation, print, cartoon features and video games. I follow her blog as she shares many great tips on drawing and encouraging creativity. She has a theme on
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Today is the birthday of Abigail Adams, wife of founding father John Adams. Ever since reading David McCullough’s book John Adams, I have been fascinated and inspired by this beautiful woman. Abigail was beautiful, witty and incredibly intelligent as evidenced
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I was visiting Anne Crosby’s Piano Discoveries site the other day and found that she had uploaded yet more exciting games! She has now divided and organized the games into categories including: Beginner Concepts Interval Identification Key Signatures Notes, Ledger
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by Kevin Costley There are many times in life that being a fast sight-reader comes in handy. Although I believe sight-reading is a natural talent for some pianists, it is a skill that others have to work hard to achieve.
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I adore Christmas music! As a matter of fact, I just started listening to Christmas music this week in addition to having my students begin working on Christmas pieces. I love the old classics, but I find it is easy
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This is Part 2 of our interview with composer Mona Rejino. Read Part 1 here. 6. When you arrange a popular piece, do you use sheet music and re-score it, or do you listen to it and transcribe it? Both
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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!
