by Whitney | Dec 10, 2014 | 4 D's, Christmas, Composition, Delight, Featured, Printables, Resources, Sheet Music
Today I am sharing something big… Something I’ve been working on personally all year. Ready… set… go! I’ve finally started publishing my own music at a new personal domain – WhitneyHawker.com! My amazing web designer has helped me...
by Whitney | Oct 9, 2014 | 4 D's, Composition, Delight, Discover, Featured, Resources, Sheet Music
All of my students can’t stop telling me about their Halloween costumes! I’m not sure I’m ready to even think about what I’ll dress up as but if these kids are so excited about this holiday so we might as well jump on the band wagon and bring...
by Whitney | Aug 14, 2014 | 4 D's, Composition, Delight, Discover, Featured, Printables, Resources, Sheet Music
“How long until the student begins making music?” This question haunts me since the days of critiquing our teaching from recordings during undergrad and grad school. Too often, it’s easy to begin with some chatter about the week and while this is...
by Whitney | Jul 22, 2014 | 4 D's, Composition, Delight, Develop, Featured, Games, Printables, Resources
Hello again! We are having a busy summer with many trips and lots of camps so I wanted to take a moment to share an idea we used in our recent piano ensemble camp. Besides playing duets and a few multi piano ensembles, I wanted to center the “off the...
by Whitney | May 22, 2014 | 4 D's, Composition, Delight, Featured, Printables, Resources, Sheet Music
So what in the world do frogs have to do with piano?? Today I’m sharing an awesome idea for a group ensemble to “Down by the Banks”. Do you remember that children’s song? The one about the frog? Ok, now that the visual makes sense let’s...
by Whitney | May 1, 2014 | 4 D's, Composition, Printables, Resources
Today’s AMTA presentation handout may be downloaded here! Thanks for visiting 🙂 CompTHandout To see notes from all of this series of posts see below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3