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! If you missed the little video we made of our camp adventures, please take just 2
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This post is for all my piano students. Here are this week’s lead sheets for the July Challenge: Michael: Week 2 – Lead Sheets Elementary Chloe, Bethany, Jana: Week 2 – Lead Sheets Intermediate Sarah and Nicole: Go to this website
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Quite a few people commented and sent me messages about the life-altering quote from G. K. Chesterton on repetition. 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. I’ve added
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This post is for all my piano students. As you know, I am taking the month of July off of teaching, so I am challenging each of you students to learn new lead sheets each week in addition to at
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Have you been wondering what we did at our Music Menagerie Piano Camp this year? Well, wonder no more… Wanna come next year? 🙂
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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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This article is written by Stephen Hughes, a teacher in Texas whom I met on Facebook. He moved to a new community and grew his studio from 3 to 23 students in 5 months in very creative ways and I
Networking for Piano Teachers: Why not put yourself out there? Read More »
At a recent conference, Betty Todd Smith, a wonderful conference presenter said, “Children never tire of repetition. It is we adults who hate the monotony of repetition.” That sentence really struck a chord with me as a piano teacher. I
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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!"
