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…
Articles on everything from sight reading to games in the studio!
Colour coding sheet music is nothing new. Teachers have been doing it for decades – even my own teacher used to highlight entire sections…
Students stop piano lessons for all kinds of reasons, sometimes they are heading to the next step in their musical career, but often students…
Learning piano isn’t just a childhood pursuit. As teachers, we often encounter adults seeking to learn to play for the first time, or perhaps…
Jennifer Gibb is a piano and singing teacher from New South Wales. She graduated from The Masters University in California in 2017. While living…
The countdown, the fireworks, the champagne, the resolutions. The new year has officially kicked off, and music teachers are getting ready to look at…
Do 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…
The Piano Teacher had the privilege of interviewing Penelope Roskell to chat about her latest publication: The Complete Pianist.
It’s that time of year again. Music teachers all over the world are frantically putting together recital lists, sending letters to parents telling them…
When I first encountered the idea of Group Piano Lessons, my first thoughts were “how could that possibly work? My private lessons are tailored…
Are we dedicating enough time to the very thing we are creating this art for – Hearing & Feeling?
Every time I go into my local music shop, I struggle to stop myself from taking home armfuls of repertoire books. There is always…
Well how’s that for a loaded question! Impossible to answer unless you’re about to write about it, which, luckily, I am. 😊 Obviously, rote…