Recital Bingo
As my group and private students prepare for the recital, we try to practice performing as much as possible. To encourage good audience listening, I'm using a recital bingo game that I'm sharing today. I've seen several versions on Facebook so I don't know who exactly...
My Top Five Most Used Apps for Teaching
These days, the iPad is pretty commonplace. I have one, my students have them, they're everywhere! I got my first iPad free as a hand-me-down from my generous sister and began to r eally use it in my teaching when I started teaching in two locations. Having an iPad...
TED Talk Tuesday – Why I take piano on the road…and in the air.
It's been awhile since we've featured a TED talk video here, but I found a great one recently that I couldn't pass up sharing with our readers. I love how pianist Daria van den Bercken discusses music with such passion and I would also love to see a performing...
Composition Wheel
With the limited time in lessons, activities that combine several subjects in a fun way are my favorite. Today I'm sharing a new wheel activity that combines a theory review of diatonic chords with a composition activity and provides some sight reading practice. My...
MTNA Day 3
Finally catching up on MTNA conference recaps - so here's what my Day 3 notes look like! We started the morning early to attend the Piano Safari Showcase. I've been excited to check out their rote teaching music and it was neat to hear about their method from Dr....
MTNA 2016 – Session Summary “RMM ‘Best Ideas'”
The MTNA Convention in San Antonio was a wonderful experience! Although I think I am still recovering, catching up, and getting adjusted back to regular life. The days are packed full of wonderful events and....we didn't get any posts written up the last couple...
MTNA Conference Day 2 – Part 2
We're back resting in our room tonight and discussing our day. MTNA conference is my highlight of the year for teaching and today was a great reminder to me of how important creativity is in every lesson. The performers from yesterday, Time Out For Three, were so...
MTNA Conference Day 2 – Part 1
Today is the first official full day of the conference, but it seems like I have already learned so much already! I'm looking forward to two more days packed full of exciting sessions. Here's a quick summary of what I attended today, I still plan to pay some more...
Pedagogy Saturday 2016: Part 1
Great pedagogy Saturday today. We took a few pictures, wrote down lots of notes, but as Robert Duke told us, our real learning won't happen in these lectures. It will happen as we go home and use this knowledge, really worth with it to become better teachers,...
Q&A with Kat Souponetsky
To follow up our music review yesterday, my students made a list of questions they wanted to ask Kat Souponetsky. We chose the best questions and sent them to her. Today I wanted to share the questions and answers with you as well. Do you decide on a title before,...
New Music from Kat Souponetsky
As I was searching for new music online last month, I stumbled onto a fresh new composer - Kat Souponetsky at KatSounds.net. After reading her bio and listening to the recordings available on the website, I couldn't wait to play her music myself and share it with my...
JoyTunes Recital Invitations – New Templates
Do you remember the great recital invitation templates I posted about last spring? If not, you can find the post here: http://4dpianoteaching.com/recital-invitations-free-from-joytunes/ JoyTunes released new templates today that include some lovely fall and winter...