If you are a student composer, music teacher, or piano teacher, you will want to take advantage of this great opportunity to submit interview questions to a living composer! I’m sure you remember that last year, Kevin Costley was our […]
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Here is the final portion of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Myth #4 Improvising is only for jazz musicians. This one is easy to dispute. Playing by ear is downright
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Here is Part 2 of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash. Read Part 1 here. Myth #3 Only experts can teach ear skills. The biggest obstacle for students seeking ear skills is finding instruction. To illustrate this, let me
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I wanted to invite all my teaching friends to a workshop I will be giving entitled, “Nurturing Creativity and Inspiration.” This workshop will be on September 17th, at Senseney Music in Wichita from 9:30-11:30. The Wichita Piano Teacher League asked
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Bradley Sowash, a wonderful jazz musician and composer, helps unscramble 4 myths of playing by ear. Here is Part 1 of “The Myths of Playing by Ear.” Playing by ear is one of those areas of teaching music that often
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DeeAnn Brown is an adjuct teacher of piano at Wichita State University. I have had the privilege of observing her teaching years ago when I was a pedagogy student at WSU. She amazed me then with her abilities to coax the
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I have mentioned “performance classes” several times on this blog. I try to schedule 2-3 performance classes a year especially right before recital and competition time. These help the students practice performing before their big events. Since I don’t charge
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The new fall catalogue from Hal Leonard has arrived and I was excited to see that 2 of my recent books were on the front cover! So, you can now purchase both American Portraits and Returning to the Piano for
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Last year, I wanted to encourage my students to play more musically. I made some “Caught Ya Makin’ Music” cards to give to them every time they played one of their pieces musically. It was really amazing to see how
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In this previous post, I wrote about a new item I was going to be using in the fall: erasable highlighters. I was so excited after learning about these that I ran out to purchase them from Office Max. I bought the Office
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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!"
