Piano at Play
Piano student care packages: deliver lesson essentials plus a little cheer
With online lessons several things are missing: adding stickers, placing sticky-notes on pages to make them easy to find and a myriad of other little special touches. You can recreate some of this by delivering care packages to your students that contain useful and fun things they can do at home, like adding their own stickers! Special delivery! ...continue reading →
Online piano lessons: Pointers for families setting up at home
Piano teachers can share this blog post with piano families to help them prepare for online lessons through the Zoom platform. This is the post I’m sharing with my own students and if you find it helpful, feel free to share it with yours, too! ...continue reading →
Online piano lessons for Beginner and Elementary students: Idea bank
Piano teachers everywhere are looking for ideas on how to teach beginner and elementary students online. By far, this will be the most challenging demographic to engage with remote teaching. Here are resources and tips to get you started! We can do this! ...continue reading →
Health-proof your piano studio: Doctor-recommended steps [COVID-19]
Dr. Judy Price is currently practicing medicine as a General Practitioner. I had the chance to pick her brain about how piano teachers can help to keep ourselves, our piano students and communities safe in light of the current global pandemic of the novel coronavirus - COVID-19.
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6 Ideas to adapt your private teaching style to online lessons
Whether dealing with mass quarantine or an occasional student who cannot make it to their regular lesson, it's best to be prepared with the option to teach online. Here are ideas on how to adapt your private teaching set-up to temporary or occasional online lessons. ...continue reading →
6 reasons the cajón box drum is better than a metronome in piano lessons
Find out how this simple percussion instrument has become an invaluable studio asset. From tempo fluctuation to teaching concepts of improvisation and rhythm and metre, the cajón is a piano studio must-have multi-tasker! ...continue reading →
Ear training Interval Dash, off-the-bench teaching strategy [Printables]
This off-the-bench resource teaches intervals by ear and visualizes them spatially without using notation. This approach is highly effective in helping students to gain a sound perspective and to learn to identify intervals by ear with accuracy. Plus, it’s fun! ...continue reading →
5 ways piano teachers break students' hearts
Whether you’re a current piano student (or former one), there’s a chance you’ve had a broken heart at one time or another over piano lessons. Teachers are only human, and sometimes don’t realize the impact of their actions, approaches or attitudes. This post is an attempt to mend that broken heart. ...continue reading →
Leapin' Lemurs help teach key letters, intervals and much more! [Teaching aid]
Children learn through play! To incorporate a spirit of playfulness into our piano lessons is to help our students learn more effectively! Find out how you can get these sweet, fun Leapin' Lemurs to use in your own piano teaching! They're versatile, useful and will have your students leaping to learn key letters and intervals! ...continue reading →
