I hope you and your students are thinking of some questions to ask Mona for our composer interview! Please submit these in the comments section of this Composer Interview post. Here is a brief preliminary interview with Mona which discusses […]
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When I began my fall semester a few weeks ago, I told my students that they could each earn their own Erasable Highlighter to use in their home practice time if they demonstrated that they were practicing well at home (see
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If you are a student composer, music teacher, or piano teacher, you will want to take advantage of this great opportunity to submit interview questions to a living composer! I’m sure you remember that last year, Kevin Costley was our
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Here is the final portion of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Myth #4 Improvising is only for jazz musicians. This one is easy to dispute. Playing by ear is downright
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Here is Part 2 of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash. Read Part 1 here. Myth #3 Only experts can teach ear skills. The biggest obstacle for students seeking ear skills is finding instruction. To illustrate this, let me
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I wanted to invite all my teaching friends to a workshop I will be giving entitled, “Nurturing Creativity and Inspiration.” This workshop will be on September 17th, at Senseney Music in Wichita from 9:30-11:30. The Wichita Piano Teacher League asked
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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
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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
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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
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