Since I blogged about incentives, there has been quite a bit of discussion in emails, comments, and other forums about what kinds of things teachers use to award their students. Many teachers want to make sure that the awards incentivize […]
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Many teachers have asked where they can get the Composer Bucks or Music Money that I referenced in my post about my 2009 incentive. Here are a couple of resources: Free Music Money – Susan Paradis has a wonderful site
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I’m very excited about the incentive program I started for my students this year. My goal was to encourage them to actually “make music” this year instead of just playing the notes, rhythms, and details correctly. You know the difference!
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Jason Sifford, a composer and contributor to the PianoTeaching.com forums, has started a new blog on piano pedagogy. The Piano Pedagogy Page promises “Extremely Random Thoughts on Teaching and Playing the Piano.” Random yes, but important nonetheless. His most recent
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This is the third of the 3 points in Composition for Kids: Time Saving Ways to Encourage Composition in Your Studio. In this segment, we discuss why it is important to develop students’ ears and how to do this. If you
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There are two music notation programs by which all notation programs are measured: Finale and Sibelius. Of course, these two programs can do virtually anything imaginable in music notation, so no free program is going to compare. But, for students
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If you don’t watch any other post in this lecture series, watch this one. This is my favorite point and the point that I believe can make the biggest difference in your studio. In this video, I talk about relating music
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This is part 2e in the lecture I gave at the KMTA conference in June. In this segment, I finish talking about the ways in which we can encourage creativity and composition in our studio.  Please be sure to watch the
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This is part 2d in the lecture I gave at the KMTA conference in June. In this segment, I continue to talk about ways in which we can encourage creativity and composition in our studio.  Please be sure to watch the
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This is part 2c in the lecture I gave at the KMTA conference in June. In this segment, I talk ways in which we can encourage creativity and composition in our studio.  This point has several subpoints and I chose to
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