“Learning should always be fun. They should be having a ball. It’s amazing how much they remember when it is fun” Dan Grable Where I live it’s almost the end of the long summer holidays and students are about to head back to school. So it’s that time of year when I open up the…
Many years ago I taught a new learner who was what you might call a ‘reluctant sight-reader’. They pretty much guessed the notes, hitting a piano key and hoping it was correct rather than working it out properly. Frustrating, right? I found that if I corrected them as they were playing, this made it worse….
My students are all motivated by garbage! Well, my music theory game Garbage Monsters that is. I love music studio competitions and have always found them to be highly motivating amongst my students. At the start of last term I pinned up a leaderboard for Garbage Monsters in my studio and made sure I had plenty of…
