Bradley Sowash, a wonderful jazz musician and composer, helps unscramble 4 myths of playing by ear. Here is Part 1 of “The Myths of Playing by Ear.” Playing by ear is one of those areas of teaching music that often […]
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DeeAnn Brown is an adjuct teacher of piano at Wichita State University. I have had the privilege of observing her teaching years ago when I was a pedagogy student at WSU. She amazed me then with her abilities to coax the
American Portraits Review Read More »
I have mentioned “performance classes” several times on this blog. I try to schedule 2-3 performance classes a year especially right before recital and competition time. These help the students practice performing before their big events. Since I don’t charge
Performance Class Listening Worksheets Read More »
Sigh. As one who loves perfection (I’m sure none of you are that way), it pains me to see the spelling error in the first paragraph of the ComposeCreate® newsletter that just went out! Evidently the author of the newsletter
“Motivating” students to practice Read More »
Especially for the school music teacher, this press release just came to me from J. W. Pepper: Editors’ Choice Online viewer enables free preview access from web-enabled devices. PAOLI, PENNSYLVANIA — AUGUST 27, 2010 — J. W. Pepper announced today
J.W.Pepper debuts online tool for music teachers Read More »
The new fall catalogue from Hal Leonard has arrived and I was excited to see that 2 of my recent books were on the front cover! So, you can now purchase both American Portraits and Returning to the Piano for
New Hal Leonard Catalogue – 40% off Read More »
Last year, I wanted to encourage my students to play more musically. I made some “Caught Ya Makin’ Music” cards to give to them every time they played one of their pieces musically. It was really amazing to see how
Certificate of Artistry Read More »
In this previous post, I wrote about a new item I was going to be using in the fall: erasable highlighters. I was so excited after learning about these that I ran out to purchase them from Office Max. I bought the Office
Erasable Highlighter Comparison: Pilot vs. Office Max Read More »
The Official Google Blog has been running a series of posts about how Google has helped people in unusual ways. This story gives me great hope for those moments when I too can only remember how a tune (without lyrics)
“Doot doot doodle-oodle” – Finding Tunes on Google Read More »
I wrote to Anne Crosby this weekend asking if she might be interested in creating some of the ladybug cards using the terms “half step” and “whole step” instead of “semi-tone” and “whole tone.” I know many of the American
Preparing for Fall: Still more games! Read More »
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