Along with you, I’ve had my share over the years of dealing with highly emotional parents, tiger moms, complaints, unkind emails, and irrational requests. It happens to any teacher, I’m sure. But even empathy from others is not wonderfully helpful when […]
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Do you ask your students how many days they practiced during the week? Maybe you look in their assignment sheets to see how many days they’ve practiced? Yep, I do too. But I know that the amount of time they practice does
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6 shortcuts to jump start and encourage creative piano teaching. A comprehensive guide to creative piano teaching that will result in new ideas.
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How Can I Be a More Creative Piano Teacher? It’s so important to know how to nurture nurture creativity and inspiration in our music teaching lives. It’s too easy to get involved in our students and their learning and forget
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We are all creative and I’m sure you all know that one of my missions with ComposeCreate.com is to empower you to both believe that you are creative, to be creative, and to learn how to bring out the musical
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6Â Ways to Get and Stay Creative Sometimes when you read someone’s blog, you get the idea that they have this fantastically neat and perfect life in which they have beautiful, fireside, quiet moments to write a blog post, create an
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The National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy was wonderful this year! Every teacher that I talked to spoke about how much they learned and benefitted from attending. I was busy in meetings, giving workshops, and just connecting with the teachers that
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I’ve been reading a lot about disciplines and the need to pro-actively train our minds so that our natural inclination is to do the best and the right thing. I love the way Tchaikovsky talks about discipline as it relates
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Being a mother of three, it is hard to find large chunks of time to work on anything be it a composition, a blog post, a project, or a lesson plan. Â But I’m often reminded of what my husband told
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I just saw a fabulous video, appropriate for teachers,musicians, and even children, about what happens when we copy creative works. While it might seem somewhat self-serving to blog about this, I will tell you that composers especially get so little
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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!
