I love doing fun activities in piano lessons to reinforce the notes, rhythms, and other concepts students are learning, while being creative in a totally different way. Keep reading to learn about a fun composition activity I do with my youngest elementary piano students, and see how easy it can be for your youngest students to compose their very own…
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Make Your Own Custom Banner – Free Download
Add some pizzazz to your classroom or music studio with this bright and colorful banner! The quick and easy tutorial will guide you through a few simple steps, and you’ll have a fun banner that you can be proud of in just a few minutes. Perfect for piano recitals, birthday parties, classroom walls, bulletin board letters, back-to-school, end of the…
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Teaching Piano Lessons Online with Skype & FaceTime
Thanks to videoconferencing tools such as Skype and FaceTime, teaching music lessons online is becoming more and more popular among teachers all over the world. In this post I’ll share a few of my own experiences teaching online piano lessons: finding the right clients, introducing concepts in online lessons, visual aids, having online students perform in your studio recitals, what to do…
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How to Use Printable Sticky Notes in Piano Lessons
Printable sticky notes in piano lessons can give students a tremendous amount of ownership over their own practice sessions. Quick, easy, customizable sticky notes work for scales, solo repertoire, theory, recital prep, and so much more! Students are eager to follow their own practice steps, which makes practice time more effective and efficient, and the real bonus is that students…
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Go with the Flow in Piano Lessons
When students enter our studios, they usually arrive with some sort of baggage. Leftover and unprocessed feelings or emotions from the day, worries, stresses, fears. We often don’t see or hear about these issues, especially with students that are really good at “keeping it together”, but sometimes those feelings rear their heads during our weekly lessons with our students, causing…
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7 Easy Valentine Activities for Piano Students
Valentine’s Day is almost here, and you might be scrambling to find the perfect idea for a Valentine piano party, special music lesson, or to treat your students to something unique that still reviews music while allowing them to have a ton of fun! It’s so easy to incorporate some fun Valentine’s Day activities and games into your piano lessons…
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My 2018 Word of the Year #onelittleword: CULTIVATE
The One Little Word concept was started by Ali Edwards, who is a designer, blogger, workshop instructor, and author. Ali says she “began a tradition of choosing one word for myself each January – a word to focus on, meditate on, and reflect upon as I go about my daily life.” You can read more about the One Little Word concept at…
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