I found this quote a while ago and it really struck a chord (no pun intended!). When learning the piano growing up, I always loved how I could pick up a book of music and be transported to a different world. Each piece told its own unique story. In a similar way I think that’s…
Do you have any students who struggle with note reading? Every week you ask them what that note is in their music and they look at you blankly – or just guess. When I was learning (back in the olden days!) my teacher did lots of note drilling. This was sometimes in the form of…
“Meet the student where they are, not where you are, and not where you want them to be, but where they really are” Frances Clark I have always really liked this quote because it highlights how important it is to teach the individual. We aren’t teaching robots or drones! Every student that walks through the…
With football fever (or soccer depending on where you live!) in full flow some of my students have been requesting to play themed theory games. One of the most popular is ‘Ball in a Bin’. In this trick shot style game, students have to kick the ball into the bins to score points and take…
Goo The Teacher has to be my students favourite music game this week! It’s a ‘Beat The Teacher‘ style game where the person standing under the goo machine when it goes off (thankfully a virtual one!) gets covered in green slime! The machine moves between teacher and student, and the only way students can pass…
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood” Fred Rogers I drove past my piano teachers house recently and memories of having lessons as a child came flooding back. All those years ago there was no…
