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Resisting Hands Together
I have a 5 year old who is resisting playing hands together. He is happy to play 5SS together but nothing else. Any ideas how to encourage him? some young children think it is going to be too hard to do so instead of giving…
- Last updated 1 year ago
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Slowing Down Students
What creative ways do you use to get students to slow down? I don’t know any creative ways, I just resort to tapping a slow beat, and getting them to play along to the audio slow version. I wonder if it is a stage they…
- Last updated 3 years ago
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General Open Stage Questions
In response to some questions I have read, here are my replies. “…I’m assuming that I should do a brief description of the program at the beginning to introduce Simply Music..not sure how long, how much?…” I think it’s valuable to talk about SM, at…
- Last updated 3 years ago
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Airtable Studio Organization
In response to a recent post asking for suggestions on spreadsheets and studio organization, I mentioned a free database software app I have used the past few years called “Airtable.” Airtable is a cloud-based database creator with really exciting possibilities, and the FREE version is…
- Last updated 4 years ago
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Stage fright help
Looking for some advice re: stage fright. I had a student that performed for a talent show at school. Forgot where to put her hands and just couldn’t get started. I was there and ran up after she tried a few times to start to…
- Last updated 6 years ago
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Teaching Christmas Songs
I’m in the first few months of teaching. We’re obviously heading into the holidays and want to teach a few carols, and I have the two simple Christmas books, but it’s ‘music’ and I wasn’t sure about how to go about teaching those..I think as…
- Last updated 8 years ago
- Christmas, events, teaching melody
Piano Party
I like to hear how other teachers’ Piano Party or Concert went, so I am sharing my recent event. I went with Piano Party idea this year and gave out blow out blowers (bought in packs of 10 or 20). After each item the audience…
- Last updated 7 years ago
- events, performance ideas, piano party, recitals