The November issue of the MTNA eJournal is now available to read. In it you’ll find 2 articles: “Bach’s Goldberg Variations Demystified” by Cory Hall and “Handedness in Piano Playing – Biological Principles of Education” by Linda Minasian
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Kristin Yost’s book How I Made $100k My First Year as a Piano Teacher is now on sale at the PianoAccents store. In addition Neeki Bey’s Africa piano book is also on sale for only $11. This book contains 10 classic
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me until now, but a great way to save money on printing rhythm drills and Rhythm Menagerie would be to print them on card stock and then laminate them! Then, students
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My students are so excited about the Holiday Sight Reading Challenge I issued a few weeks ago. I love that I can use this idea for sight reading or next year for practice, extra credit challenges, etc. It’s a very
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If you have a gmail address, you’ll want to get in on the new Google+ social network! It’s far cleaner and easier to make sense of than some of the other social networks. Plus, there are great “hangout” features which
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I always appreciate when other bloggers link back to this blog. But it’s been a while since I’ve linked back to anyone but Susan Paradis’ wonderful blog, so I wanted to give you some links to a little of what’s
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On the goal setting form I had students fill out in August, many of my students expressed that they wanted to be better sight readers. In the past few months, my students have participated in a Christmas Sight Reading Challenge
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I’ve been asked this question a few times since the launch of Rhythm Menagerie, so I thought I’d let you know that Rhythm Menagerie was designed to be used in private lessons, though it does work well in groups. Some
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In case you missed it in the Candy Corn Polyphony post, I wanted to let you know that there are new Melodic Dictation activities on the Web Rewards pages. There are now Level 6 and Level 7 melodic dictation samples
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This week, we had our fall group lessons and I had a fun time tweaking our games to go with a fall theme. I had a particularly good time figuring out what to do with my older kids who were
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How to Revolutionize Rhythm in Your Studio
Learn how this rhythm curriculum gets rhythm IN students' bodies so it comes OUT in ALL their music! See why "It’s the best resource out there for teaching rhythms" and get your students "exponentially improving!"
