Well, it’s official! Â I’ll be speaking at this year’s summer SMU Institute for piano teachers! Â I’m privileged to be amongst some very distinguished presenters and look forward presenting with them and meeting you! But, let me tell you a few […]
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How would you like to motivate your students to sight-read every day during the month of May? Â What if you could do this AND give back to your community and those in need at the same time? Sight-reading for Sight-saving
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A teacher recently asked me how to use Rhythm Menagerie with students who are older but still working on basic rhythms. I had to admit to her that I’ve used Rhythm Menagerie with all my students no matter what their age, but
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The Clavier Companion now has a free iPad app available in the iTunes app store. Â You can read the current version of Clavier Companion here in your browser even without the app. Â I believe that Clavier Companion will soon be
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With all that technology can do for us today, you would have thought that we could tune our pianos with something electronic or digital before now. Â But ask any piano tuner about how “stretching” the intervals between the octaves in
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Last week, I received this email from a teacher in New York: My young student is in Unit 2 and this week was LOVING “howling like a wolf.” After we finished the page, which was adorable, trust me….she looked at
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I rarely pre-order a book, but the new book by Jonah Lehrer Imagine: How Creativity Works intrigues me enough that I pre-ordered today. It’s set to be released in just days, March 19th. I read the very interesting essay How to
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Remember the highlighter tape that I’ve raved about and recommended before? Â Well, Art from the Avid Aviator site has let me know that he now has an entire site devoted to highlighter tape now called HighlighterTapes.com. Â The tape we love
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The February MTNA eJournal is now available and includes these articles: “New Music and the American Pianist” “Chopin’s Pianism and the Reconstruction of the ineffable:”
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The subject of motivation always interests me. Here’s a great post by Tim Topham summarizing the book on motivation called Drive. Â He mentions a few of the studies conducted on motivation including one on preschoolers and one on adults. Â The
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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!
