Keys to Success: Prepping Your Students for End-of-Year Piano Exams
byThe end of the year is in sight, and you know what that means… piano exams are coming! While some students might feel the…
Piano Teaching Ideas
Articles on everything from sight reading to games in the studio!
Celebrating Piano by Color
byColour coding sheet music is nothing new. Teachers have been doing it for decades – even my own teacher used to highlight entire sections…
Teaching a Memorable Last Lesson
byStudents stop piano lessons for all kinds of reasons, sometimes they are heading to the next step in their musical career, but often students…
Ten Ideas for Teaching Piano to Adult Beginners
byLearning piano isn’t just a childhood pursuit. As teachers, we often encounter adults seeking to learn to play for the first time, or perhaps…
Learning To Teach
byJennifer Gibb is a piano and singing teacher from New South Wales. She graduated from The Masters University in California in 2017. While living…
New Year, New Plan
byThe countdown, the fireworks, the champagne, the resolutions. The new year has officially kicked off, and music teachers are getting ready to look at…
Why our Students are Practising Less
byDo your students practise enough? Mine don’t. There, I said it! My students don’t practise1. And by ‘don’t’, I mean ‘hardly’. And I’m talking…
Penelope Roskell chats ‘The Complete Pianist’
byThe Piano Teacher had the privilege of interviewing Penelope Roskell to chat about her latest publication: The Complete Pianist.
“Miss, I don’t want to perform”
byIt’s that time of year again. Music teachers all over the world are frantically putting together recital lists, sending letters to parents telling them…
Group Piano Lessons: Do They Work?
byWhen I first encountered the idea of Group Piano Lessons, my first thoughts were “how could that possibly work? My private lessons are tailored…
Black Key, White Key, Hear Me!
byAre we dedicating enough time to the very thing we are creating this art for – Hearing & Feeling?
Mega Resource Review
byEvery time I go into my local music shop, I struggle to stop myself from taking home armfuls of repertoire books. There is always…