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How To Rescue Your Piano Lesson When Students and Parents Arrive Upset
Has this ever happened to you? It’s 3pm and you’re ready to wow your student with the fantastic piano lesson you have carefully planned. You can just imagine the joy on her face when you announce the...
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My Favorite Piano Teaching Ideas From Pinterest
Welcome to the Piano Geek Week edition of The FAME School Blog! If you haven’t heard about or signed up for Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Piano Geek Week, be sure to check it out! But, first look below for...
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Visually Describing Your Studio
Today I discovered the coolest app in a post from the blog An Ethical Island. The app is called CloudArt and is available for iPad in the iTunes store. The app is quite versatile in that you can type...
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Why It’s Called The “Trouble” Clef
On a recent visit to Michael’s I found this cute little notepad. As with a lot of random things that are in my studio at any given moment, it became a teaching aid in a piano lesson. Just as I was...
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Custom T-shirts for Your Studio
When my students and I were invited to play at a local retail store that was featuring a day of continuous piano music from area piano teachers and their students, I got the idea to have everybody wear...
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Never Give Up!
Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day. With that comes reflection on how becoming a mother has changed your life and how your kids have grown. My son is the kid playing in the video above, and I have to...
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A Piano Project Kids Love!
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you might already know that I love doing recording projects with my piano students every year. For the past several years we have done CD’s. The first year...
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New FREE Printable: A Piano Project Kids Love
In yesterday’s post I shared some pictures and video from our Piano Bears Spring Project where the students made bears at Build A Bear Workshop that have a recording of them playing the piano. The...
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Summer Celebrations: A Student’s First Chord!
Do you remember when you played your first 3 note chord? Filed under: music lessons Tagged: music lessons for children, music milestones, piano, piano chords
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Summer Celebrations: A Child’s Wisdom
Kids really do say the darndest things! Filed under: music lessons Tagged: performance quotes, piano quotes
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Summer Celebrations : Finding The Perfect Piano Accessory On Vacation
I found this mug at Fresh Market in Hilton Head, SC while on vacation last week. The piano teacher in me couldn’t resist! Filed under: practicing Tagged: awesome, cool, piano, practice
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Getting Parents Ready for Piano Season
When your piano parents think about the upcoming piano season will they be seeing themselves dragging their kid to and from lessons and battling at home over practice OR will they be laughing out loud...
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A Fun Back To School Piano Lesson
As the awesome piano teacher you no doubt are, you want your first piano lessons of the new school year to be spectacular! So, allow me to suggest an idea from www.teachpianotoday.com. I call it “Light...
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The Most Irritating Question
You know what it is. Every child asks it when you present them with a multi-day or multi-week challenge or anything that requires consistent effort no matter how minimal. I have encountered this...
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Free Printable: 88 Day Practice Challenge Tracker
The above printable is available for FREE DOWNLOAD and can be used to keep track of your students’ piano practice days. I am using it in conjunction with the excellent practice resource called Shh…Your...
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The Talking Piano Bench That Teaches Sight-Reading
Sadly, the piano bench is an often overlooked treasure chest in the piano room. On the day my first piano was delivered when I was just a little girl, I can remember being as enamored with the piano...
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Piano Tuning
Filed under: music lessons, Parents Tagged: piano, piano lessons, Piano tuning
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Attention Lifelong Piano Players!
Filed under: music lessons Tagged: music lessons, piano lessons, piano statistics
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Musicians, Athletes and Practice
“Musicians are small-muscle athletes, so the same principles of physical conditioning which apply to athletes also apply to musicians.” – Barry Green in The Mastery Of Music: Ten Pathways to True...
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Don’t Let School Holidays Sabotage Piano Lessons
Yesterday was Labor Day here in the United States and that means we did not have piano lessons. Knowing that the holiday was coming I gave my students more than enough material to work on for two...
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