In the last year, I’ve tried to be more deliberate in finding ways to be active in and bless the community in which I live. You can read about how my students blessed our community in the Sight Reading for Sight Saving Challenge! Last year, we took our Christmas recital to a local retirement village and got to see many residents thrilled to […]
A List of Creative Ideas for the Fall Lesson Book Bash
Suzanne from the Hilton Music Studio emailed me the other day to tell me how much she loved the Fall Lesson Book Bash article that Leila Viss wrote! She said her students were:
LOVING the Fall Book Bash! Everytime I punch a hole in a leaf they yell, “YESSSSS”.
Finale Notation Products
My students just finished their week of our Songwriting Workshop and we used Finale Notepad 2012 (free) to make lead sheets. While this is a very helpful tool, it has many limitations, so I wanted to outline the other Finale products that are available for purchase which do not have as many limitations:
PrintMusic® is designed […]
2011 Christmas Cover Art Contest
This year, I am asking the residents of one of our local retirement villages to be the judges in our Christmas Cover Art Contest. I made this display for them and asked them to choose their favorite from both the elementary and the older student selections. I’m always amazed at my students creativity and drawing abilities. Drawing is a skill that I never got […]
Holiday Sight Reading Challenge
On the goal setting form I had students fill out in August, many of my students expressed that they wanted to be better sight readers. In the past few months, my students have participated in a Sight Reading Challenge in which every day they practiced I said I would give a certain amount of money to a local charity. I am going to […]
Candy Corn Polyphony
This week, we had our fall group lessons and I had a fun time tweaking our games to go with a fall theme. I had a particularly good time figuring out what to do with my older kids who were studying monophonic, polyphonic, and homophonic music. We also had to do a segment of ear training on 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, and multi-metric meters. A […]
July Challenge: Lead Sheets Week 4
This post is for all my piano students. Here are this week’s lead sheets for the July Challenge:
Michael:
Week 4 – Lead Sheets Elementary
Chloe, Bethany, Jana:
Week 4 – Lead Sheets Intermediate
Sarah and Nicole:
Go to this website and look at all of the free, downloadable lead sheets for praise songs. Download one that you know or would like to learn and practice this using […]
July Challenge: Lead Sheets Week 3
This post is for all my piano students. Here are this week’s lead sheets for the July Challenge:
Michael:
Week 3 – Lead Sheets Elementary
Chloe, Bethany, Jana:
Week 3 – Lead Sheets Intermediate
Sarah and Nicole:
Go to this website and look at all of the free, downloadable lead sheets for praise songs. Download one that you know or would like to learn and practice this using […]
July Challenge: Lead Sheets Week 2
This post is for all my piano students. Here are this week’s lead sheets for the July Challenge:
Michael:
Week 2 – Lead Sheets Elementary
Chloe, Bethany, Jana:
Week 2 – Lead Sheets Intermediate
Sarah and Nicole:
Go to this website and look at all of the free, downloadable lead sheets for praise songs. Download one that you know or would like to learn and practice this using […]
July Challenge: Lead Sheets Week 1
This post is for all my piano students. As you know, I am taking the month of July off of teaching, so I am challenging each of you students to learn new lead sheets each week in addition to at least 2 new pieces from your books.
Here are this week’s lead sheets:
Michael:
Week 1 – Lead Sheets Elementary
Chloe, Bethany, Jana:
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