Following on from the (totally serious!) blog post earlier about the ‘secret’ of playing the piano, I have found some great advice for flautists. If you want to improve then take the advice of James Galway …
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box
James Galway
My beginner flute students should take note!
My students love emojis! My own vocabulary is probably quite small, compared to theirs, with the odd smiley or laughing face in my messages. So I decided to create a music game based on emojis. It’s all about key signatures using the keys of C, D, F and G major in the treble and bass…
PRIMER LEVEL It’s the night of his big piano concert and Henry is late! The traffic is terrible so he orders a pizza to be delivered to his dressing room … but when Henry gets there, all that’s left is the empty box! SUSAN’S BOOKS REVIEWS An incredibly fun book. I have about 15 students…
SUSAN’S BOOKS REVIEWS Delighted to announce that my popular piano music mystery, ‘Who Stole My Pizza?’ has now been released for treble instruments in the key of C. So if you play flute or recorder, for example, you can join in the fun and test your detective skills in this theory and sheet music based…
Emily collapsed theatrically onto the piano stool and we both giggled! “Tiring day?”, I enquired and nodding her head she proceeded to tell me all about her maths test and that PE had been “awful” as the teacher made them run around the field “ten times!”. Making sympathetic noises, I realised the lesson would be…
I teach a lot of young students and we often use music games to reinforce what they are learning (as you may have gathered from my website!). I’ve noticed recently that you can actually tell a lot about a student’s learning style just by playing a game. Recently, for example, I was helping someone with time…
PIANO PRIMER LEVEL Following on from the success of Who Stole My Pizza, is a new mystery adventure for beginner piano. In a kingdom far away someone stole the King’s dragon, but can your students rule out the suspects and crack the case? SUSAN’S BOOKS REVIEWS A ‘guess who’ style mystery This fun piano mystery…
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