Balance for your life … Creativity for your studio.
When you think about your studio, what comes to mind? A list of tasks that stretches so far in the future you just want to focus on this week. A studio that doesn’t feel like work, at least most days. The first mindset leads to a short-term view. But if you want to build a…
Usually, June is filled with outdoor sports, end of year concerts, enjoying the patio & emerging from our cocoons. With the COVID pandemic, things look a little different this year. Or, do they? Students still want to be outside visiting with friends & take a more relaxed approach to their learning. How do we motivate…
This is the question EVERY teacher would love to hear at the end of each lesson. After all, a student who feels lesson flies by is much more likely to continue taking lessons & even tell their friends about how awesome piano is. Sure it can get a bit awkward when you get to listen to the following conversation.
With the end of the year just around the corner (or so it seems), many of our students will be getting a bit wiggly on the bench, perhaps a bit teary-eyed at staying inside on a sunny day, and in general wanting to do something just a little bit different.
One of the favourite warm-up activities we did in my studio this year was rhythm warm-ups. I wanted my students to feel a steady pulse as they played piano, but I also wanted them to improvise with rhythms so when they saw them in their music it was easier to recognize. I wanted a warm-up that kind of did it all. This week, I am sharing the warm-up with you!
Chords are the backbone of music. Yet, how many of us take the time to teach our students about chords? Not as part of their technique exercises or on a theory page, but as an element that makes a song … well, a song. And, how many times do we sing chords so we can play chords?
Whether you teach in a home studio, commercial space or in student’s homes, the registration season always brings its own unique juggling act. Yet how to handle studio registration online, when in-person interviews are not possible, does not need to be complicated.
One of the biggest worries for teachers when hosting a virtual studio recital is the technology. Add in all the regular tasks for a recital & this can quickly become overwhelming. But, don’t worry! Here are easy tech tips for your virtual recital. P.S. This is Part 3 in a series on virtual recitals that…
Hosting a virtual recital, much like an in-person recital, has many moving parts. The nice part is that many of these parts are the same regardless of the format! P.S. This is part 2 of a series covering virtual or online recitals. Be sure to read about choosing the right type of virtual recital &…
While it would be easy enough to cancel recitals when your studio is online, it’s important for students to have a goal to work towards. And, a virtual recital that knocks your clients’ socks off is just the thing to remind them once again why they love working with you so much. Marketing your virtual…
Composing opens student’s eyes to what music really can be. Not just from an emotional point of view, but also a technical point of view as well. So, what is the trick to composing with students during online lessons? It just takes a few tweaks from what you might do in an in-person lesson!