If you do not have a large music store in your area, I know it can be difficult to choose music for your students when you cannot preview the music. Valerie, from Dollarhide Music Center (in Pensecola, Florida), has made a list of ALL the pieces on the new NFMC Bulletin that have samples to view online! This should make shopping for your NFMC music much easier.
My favorite part of what Valerie has done is to link directly to the music sample rather than to a page on which you’ll have to click yet again to see the music. I plan to use this in the next year as I pick my student’s recital music.
Thanks Valerie, for making all of our lives easier as teachers!
Pre-Primary and Primary Class I-IV
The idea to do this was inspired by a local teacher, who mentioned how difficult it was to wade through the bulletin and all the different websites to try and find samples online.
It’s the very least I can do, to help you hard working teachers in any way I can! While I’m not a piano teacher myself, I’m fortunate enough to count many of my customers as friends, and I know from them that running a studio is hard work, and all of it falls solely on the teachers’ shoulders. It is the policy of our store to support our local teachers in any way we can, by offering student referrals, free recital space, workshops, meeting space and whatever else we can do to encourage them, and putting all these samples online seemed like a good way to continue in that tradition.
Keep up the good work! I love your site!
Well, it truly is a helpful service to teachers. I would encourage any Pensecola teachers to support your store and these kinds of wonderful serices it provides! What a gift to us all. Thanks for all you do.
Wendy
This is SUCH a life-saver! Thank you so very much. It’s a dream to be able to look over the music AND hear it right here at the computer without spending an entire day in the music store. I personally can’t thank you enough for this wonderful service!
Thanks for the comment, Becky! I know what you mean that its a dream to be able to look at and see music online…sure makes picking music for students easier! The publishers are doing a better job at that these days. Hal Leonard is doing the best job (I’m partial, but I think its true!) with their “Closer Look” feature that they have on all new piano publications.