Piano at Play
How to compose piano music? Heart and Soul can teach you! [Part IX]
Composing sets you free to create using what you already know about music! Show your students how to use what they know about Heart and Soul, its chord progressions, texture and patterns, to create their very own original music! Post includes videos of student examples! ...continue reading →
How to Improvise on the piano? Heart and Soul can teach you! [Part VIII]
Improvising gives you and your students permission to play outside the box! Heart and Soul’s familiar patterns can inspire your students to try their hand at improvising! They’ll have the chance to come up with fresh, current and alternative sounds all their own! Help them gain confidence being creative at the piano. This blog post is complete with a tutorial video that helps them get started! Share it directly with your students! ...continue reading →
How Heart and Soul teaches Primary Chords [Part V]
Heart and Soul offers an easy way to teach or learn the most-used chords in all styles of music: the primary chords. This blog post is complete with images, a tutorial video and a FREE printable sheet, and is a great way to start any young student on understanding keyboard harmony! Share this post directly with your students to give them a project they can do at home! ...continue reading →
Heart and Soul piano play-along -- Duet videos [Part IV]
A student at home can play duets in two ways: with a family member, or with a virtual duet partner! Share this blog post directly with your students and they’ll be able to play any part of Heart and Soul along with the duet videos! ...continue reading →
Heart and Soul piano play-along -- Alternative tune [Part III]
Do you know Heart and Soul’s alternative melody? It’s catchy and fun! This post will help your students learn Heart and Soul’s other tune by rote with supporting videos and a FREE printable guide sheet. Your students can use the same steps to teach it to a family member! They can play the duet with family at home or the videos. Feel free to share this video directly with your piano students! ...continue reading →
Heart and Soul piano play-along -- Learn the tune [Part II]
Share this video directly with your piano students! It will help them learn Heart and Soul’s tune by rote with supporting videos and a FREE printable guide sheet. Your students can use the same steps to teach the melody to a family member! They can play the duet with a family member or the videos. ...continue reading →
Heart and Soul piano play-along -- Learn the bass and chords [Part I]
Share this video directly with your piano students! It will help them learn Heart and Soul’s bass line and chords by rote with supporting videos and a FREE printable guide sheet. Your students can use the same steps to teach it to a family member! Family duet, anyone? ...continue reading →
Piano play-along duets for families at home: Heart and Soul [Teacher intro]
Here’s how piano teachers can organize a complete unit in eight sections on Heart and Soul! Students can learn: all three parts by rote (with supporting guide sheets); 2) how to teach it to a family member; 3) to play the duet with online videos; 4) how to improvise; 5) primary chords; 6) relative minors; 7) how to transpose. Keep your students engaged with this amazing project! ...continue reading →
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 →
