How Each Pedal Tells a Story
Do you find yourself needing a refresher on how to explain each of the pedal functions to your students? Interested in seeing examples of music that use each? Look no further!
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10 Must-Have Music Games to Energize Your Music Lessons
Music lessons can be fun and engaging with the right tools. Fortunately, there are many options on the market for games and resources that can make your teaching more dynamic.
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120 Left-Hand Piano Patterns and How to Use Them in Your Teaching
Teaching music skills outside the traditional repertoire can help students learn to do more than just memorize and perform music. Don’t get us wrong: we love, respect, and teach all of this wonderful traditional repertoire, but we also want our students to become versatile, well-rounded musicians who have a personally rewarding and marketable skill set.
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Top 10 Must-Have Christmas Books for Piano Students
It’s sometimes overwhelming to sift through all the Christmas repertoire because there are so many options! If you are like us, you probably want to find
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Getting Started with Lead Sheets and Chord Charts
Lead sheets and chord charts aren’t just a fun activity for more advanced students or those who are playing in a band setting. They require functional skills that pianists at every level, even beginners, should be learning.
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4 Tips to Improve Student Listening
As music teachers, prompting students to listen is one of the most important things we can do! Here are a few tips for quickly improving your students’ listening skills.
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Quick and Easy Piano Teaching Tips for Elementary Technique
We embark on a new blog-post series to share our favorite tried-and-true piano teaching tips from some of the best experts in our field. This installment includes some of our favorite solutions for Elementary Piano Technique. From smelling big flowers to swinging like a monkey, we hope that you will learn something “quick and easy”
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The Piano House Challenge
There’s nothing quite like team spirit to motivate students! So we are sharing one of our favorite ways to encourage team spirit in your studio: The Piano House Challenge.
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New Technology for Music Teachers at NAMM 2023—New Product Releases!
Over three days, I joined 45,000 other attendees to witness all sorts of product debuts in the music industry. I thought this would be a great opportunity to write about all of the new things I saw and heard about and how they might impact us as music teachers (and, particularly piano teachers).
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The Best Apps Every Music Teacher Should Have
Music teaching apps have come a long way since their inception, and they now offer a wide range of features that make practicing music skills more accessible than ever before. In this article, we will be discussing some of our favorite music teaching apps, who they are best suited for, and how we use them in our music studios.
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