I’m excited to tell you that an article of mine, ‘Tapping into Creativity” is being published in the August/September 2011 issue of American Music Teacher. It is on page 25-27 and contains a 1-minute teaching technique which can energize the […]
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Sometimes teachers email and ask why a printout from my site or other site doesn’t print correctly. Â Many times, this is because the version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is not up-to-date. Â Do yourself a favor and update your version of
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I think its high time we had a little talk about better browsing experiences! Â If you are using Internet Explorer, chances are you experience slow browsing speeds and unsafe browsing session and you may not even know it! Â I can
I apologize for the inconvenience, but I need to change the date of the ComposeCreate® “Meet and Greet” to Thursday at 1:30.  We will still meet at the Piano Teacher School booth.  I hope to see you there!  Be sure
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For those of you going to the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, we’re going to have a “meet and greet” for ComposeCreate® readers!  If you are going, let’s meet in the exhibitor hall at the Piano Teacher School Booth, booth
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We finished our week of Piano Camp a few weeks ago and I am still flying high with excitement and energy from my students! Â If you missed the little video we made of our camp adventures, please take just 2
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Quite a few people commented and sent me messages about the life-altering quote from G. K. Chesterton on repetition. Â I thought it might be good to tell you the source of this in case you want to read this fantastic
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Well, it’s finally happened! I spoke of a new look for ComposeCreate.com in several newsletters a few months ago, so hopefully this doesn’t throw anyone off too much. Everything that was in the previous look is still here. Â I’ve added
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I just came back from our KMTA conference where one of the college faculty on a panel answered the question, “How do you prepare a student who wants to study music?” with a “Well, I honestly don’t know if I
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I’m on a bit of a break from teaching and posting on the ComposeCreate blog, but I wanted to give thanks to some very important people on this very important day. I’d like to thank those who have sacrificed their
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!
