When it comes to playing games with students, keep the games as simple as possible! You don’t want to spend valuable lesson time just explaining how a game works. These printable cards offer loads of possibilities for making quick, simple games with students.
Creating your own solo music festival is a great way to offer a judged event for your students that is tailored to fit the exact needs of your studio. Perhaps your teaching association does not have an event in the fall. Or perhaps there is an event at the right time...
Teenage students need pieces that give a lot of bang for their buck. They need showstopper pieces that have lots of patterns. Here is my list of favorites for teens. Each piece has patterns that will make it quick for teen students to learn. These would also work great for adult students!
Has a student ever come to his lesson without his assignment book and you have *no* idea what you did last week? Yes, it happens! If you have a full studio of private students, it is hard to remember exactly what you do week from week with each student. I’ve...
The Piano Safari Roundup has links for various supplements that coordinate with the Piano Safari method. Supplements include both worksheets and activities.
Sometimes I like to do a simple, quick rhythm activity to finish up the last few minutes of a lesson. Here are four ways you can reinforce rhythm with students in under five minutes.
During the summer, I like to offer occasional group classes for my students. I usually arrange a popular song so that multiple levels of students can play together. I just finished arranging Take Me Out to the Ball Game. It should be a fun piece to do with students...
A friend of mine asked me to make a rhythm chart that shows the length of various notes. In the chart below, you’ll see that the duration of each note is represented by the length of the box in relation to the whole note. For example, the length of the box for a...
