Guest post by Lucas Carbonneau Ah, summertime. The season of family vacations, fresh lemonade, and laying by the pool. Though we’re all enjoying the sunshine, music teachers often worry about how to work around their students’ summertime commitments. Music teachers...
Positive Wins and Lessons Learned Teaching Online
Earlier this week I asked my email subscribers to let me know how they were doing and to share with me something positive they have learned or experienced during their time of distance learning so far with their students. As happy tears shed from my eyes reading each...
Guest Review: Music Lab- Setting Up For Success! Solving a Problem
Anna Fagan shares her experience with music lab and how it all began for her in this review below. I love her story and maybe yours is similar? Whether or not you have been running a music lab for years or just getting started, music lab was born to solve a problem....
Be Our Guest: How Does Simon Teach Us How to Practice?
Today I have asked Andy Fling with MakingMusicFun.net to share a recent post he wrote for his email subscribers. In this post he shares how using the game that many of us have grown up with, "Simon" and apply it to practicing. I have personally used this game (via the...
Be Our Guest: Using STEM Based Projects in the Independent Music Studio
Disclaimer: The affiliate link included in this post does not affect your purchase price or the creators royalties in any way. Thank you for your support and happy teaching! It's been awhile since I have had a guest post on the blog and I'm excited to introduce our...
Be Our Guest: Top 10 Tips to Help the Independent Teacher From Burnout
There are certain times a year where burnout tends to show its face a little more. Winter tends to be one of those times so this guest post couldn't have been more well timed. I am excited to have Laurabeth Roundy, a private piano, violin, viola and fiddle teacher...
Be Our Guest: How to Begin Teaching Piano in Groups
I'm excited to introduce our April guest blogger to you today. Dorla Aparicio recently started a group piano teaching blog, www.grouppianoteaching.com. If you have ever thought about teaching piano lessons in a group setting, you will definitely want to subscribe to...
Be Our Guest: Skype, FaceTime, Hangouts, Oh My!
I'm really excited to introduce our guest this month. Sarah Lyngra will be blogging about online lessons. She has a lot of experience in this so you will want to read her post! Also I would highly recommend her online course available at TeachPianoOnline.com. The...
Be Our Guest: Can my iPad REALLY be used for piano practice? SERIOUSLY-REALLY?
You are in for a fun treat with our guest blogger today. Becki Laurent is full of positive energy and is a big proponent of staying relevant with our students. She offers some great tips on what she has used successfully with her students including her own kids. Enjoy...
Be Our Guest: F.U.N. is not a 4-letter word
I'm super excited to introduce our guest today! Many of you are familiar with her name and her music. Jennifer Eklund is the owner and composer of the ever growing, very popular among students and teachers, PianoPronto.com. If you haven't heard of PianoPronto.com, as...