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Quick Way To Learn A New Song

What You Will Need: 2 or more piano students (upper elementary and older) A song that these students like to listen to a lot 1 Die (small is fine, but GIANT is more exciting) 2 Pianos What You Do:...

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Coming Attractions

  Today I’m mailing a little inspiration to some students and wanted to share it with YOU too!   Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Albert Einstein, Coming Attractions, Dana Rice, einstein, inspirational...

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Handouts for the Pop/Jazz Track at MTNA 2013

Reblogged from 88pianokeys: Hello Jazz/Pop Track attendees and those who couldn't attend but are still interested, First, a huge thank you! We (Bradley Sowash, Chair and all those involved) were so...

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Picture Pentascales!

Helping kids learn and remember what notes go with each pentascale is easy with stickers and a printed piano keyboard! This is one that one of my boys made. He is a big Spider Man fan! Filed under:...

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Easter Egg Surprises

Easter Egg Surprises Today I’m reposting an Easter activity from last year in case you missed it and need an idea for lessons this week! Filed under: music lessons Tagged: Easter

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Scary Scales – An Unfortunate Musical Analogy

The frenetic scales loop race is heating up in my piano studio! Several weeks ago we began a quest to learn as many scales as we can before the end of the school year. As students have begun to...

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Adding Some Social To Private Piano Lessons

Who says private lessons have to be lonely lessons? With YouTube and a little creativity, the private lesson can become a great social experience for young students. When students are working on a...

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Teaching, Performing, or Both?

Before I started teaching privately on a full-time basis it never occurred to me that teaching would interfere with me performing. Fast forward a few years and I can say without a doubt that teaching...

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A Celebration of Octaves!

Do you remember the first time you realized your hands had grown enough for you to reach an octave on the piano? It happened to my daughter today, and she was so excited! She yelled for me to come look...

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Piano Geek Week: April 29-May 3

  The highly creative Andrea and Trevor Dow of TeachPianoToday.com are hosting an International Week of the Piano Geek from April 29-May 3, 2013. Andrea and Trevor have a seemingly endless treasure of...

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How To Rescue Your Piano Lesson When Students and Parents Arrive Upset

Has this ever happened to you? It’s 3pm and you’re ready to wow your student with the fantastic piano lesson you have carefully planned. You can just imagine the joy on her face when you announce the...

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My Favorite Piano Teaching Ideas From Pinterest

Welcome to the Piano Geek Week edition of The FAME School Blog! If you haven’t heard about or signed up for Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Piano Geek Week, be sure to check it out! But, first look below for...

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Visually Describing Your Studio

Today I discovered the coolest app in a post from the blog An Ethical Island. The app is called CloudArt and is available for iPad in the iTunes store. The app is quite versatile in that you can type...

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Why It’s Called The “Trouble” Clef

On a recent visit to Michael’s I found this cute little notepad. As with a lot of random things that are in my studio at any given moment, it became a teaching aid in a piano lesson. Just as I was...

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Custom T-shirts for Your Studio

When my students and I were invited to play at a local retail store that was featuring a day of continuous piano music from area piano teachers and their students, I got the idea to have everybody wear...

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Never Give Up!

Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day. With that comes reflection on how becoming a mother has changed your life and how your kids have grown. My son is the kid playing in the video above, and I have to...

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A Piano Project Kids Love!

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you might already know that I love doing recording projects with my piano students every year. For the past several years we have done CD’s. The first year...

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New FREE Printable: A Piano Project Kids Love

In yesterday’s post I shared some pictures and video from our Piano Bears Spring Project where the students made bears at Build A Bear Workshop that have a recording of them playing the piano. The...

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Summer Celebrations: A Student’s First Chord!

Do you remember when you played your first 3 note chord? Filed under: music lessons Tagged: music lessons for children, music milestones, piano, piano chords

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Summer Celebrations: A Child’s Wisdom

Kids really do say the darndest things! Filed under: music lessons Tagged: performance quotes, piano quotes

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