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    It’s Here: Rhythm Manipulations! It’s Here: Rhythm Manipulations!

    It’s Here: Rhythm Manipulations!

It’s Here: Rhythm Manipulations!

After years of brainstorming, creating, editing, and revising, the second book in the Reproducible Rhythm Explorations series is finally here! Rhythm Manipulations  picks up where Rhythm Menagerie left off. Rhythm Manipulations is designed to appeal to more mature students such as pre-teens and teens as it explores more advanced rhythmic concepts. Each unit showcases original contemporary art which visually represents the rhythmic […]

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    Hal Leonard’s new discounting Hal Leonard’s new discounting

    Hal Leonard’s new discounting

Hal Leonard’s new discounting

I love the way Hal Leonard is structuring their teacher discounts now! It used to be that you could get 40% off of up to two copies of most publications, but then a $9 shipping and handling charge was applied to it, making small orders about the same as full price. Now, they are offering a 25% discount with free shipping!

This makes much more […]

Thanksgiving Week Sale!

Now through Saturday at midnight, get 20% off anything for sale in the store! This is the lowest price ever on any of our products, so I hope you can take advantage of this to stock up on fun games (Stinky Sox, Affirm-a-term), resources (Rhythm Menagerie, Practice Theory Tests, etc.), and music for your studio. If you are a newsletter subscriber, you already received […]

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    Quick and Easy Summer Games Quick and Easy Summer Games

    Quick and Easy Summer Games

Quick and Easy Summer Games

Looking for a quick and easy game for your beginning, intermediate, and advancing students? Here’s a few that are available on ComposeCreate.com which I rarely mention, but teachers love:

Fishy Flashcards

 $5.50

Young students loves this familiar carnival game! Students can fish for these fun flashcards with a fishing pole made from a pole, string and magnet. […]

New Hal Leonard 40% off offer

Hal Leonard has some great titles in its current monthly promotion for their Teacher VIPs.

Here’s what Hal Leonard says about their music:  Great selections for your upcoming spring and summer recitals by all your favorite Hal Leonard and Willis composers. Order up to two copies of each of these specially selected publications at a 40% discount. Additional copies […]

By |April 27th, 2012|Good Deals, New Music, Piano Teaching|Comments Off

Hal Leonard Sacred Music 40% off

Hal Leonard is offering 40% off select sacred books in the month of February via the Teacher VIP line.  This includes my Easy Hymn Solos series, the Phillip Keveren Series, and more!  Simple visit the Teacher VIP link to see what […]

By |February 18th, 2012|Good Deals, Piano Teaching|Comments Off

HL Winter Catalogue – 40% off

Now through March 31st, you can get 40% off books on technique from Hal Leonard.  See all of the books included in this special offer here.  Here are a few books in which I am especially interested:

  Piano Teacher’s Guide to Creative Composition by Carol Klose

New Year Sale on Everything

ComposeCreate.com has never had a sale on everything, but I think its about time!  Now through January 1st, you can get 20% off anything in the ComposeCreate store.   That means you can get Rhythm Menagerie for a song, Practice Theory Tests and Sight Reading Pieces to prepare your students for their musicianship exams (Music Progressions), all my sacred books from Augsburg and […]

By |December 26th, 2011|Good Deals, Piano Teaching|Comments Off

What’s on your Christmas Wishlist?

Well, we are nearing Christmas and also the end of the year when we try to take advantage of tax deductions for teaching supplies.  I recently started a “teacher wish list” or “studio wish list and thought it would be fun to tell you what’s on it as well as see what’s on yours.  I confess that I went ahead and ordered several of […]

MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grants

MTNA has announced that grant applications are now available for the 2012 MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grants.

The purpose of the Teacher Enrichment Grants is to provide assistance to music teachers for private study, specific college-level course work or other projects that will enhance the performing and teaching skills of the […]

By |October 7th, 2011|Dollars and Sense, General, Good Deals, Piano Teaching|Comments Off