practice pads
Travel Keyboard
I’ve read in Kat M.’s post about travelling. So, here’s a question to all INTERNATIONALLY travelling teachers. I’m travelling in Europe for a month in the summer and the airline charges an arm and a leg if I took a keyboard. How do you travel…
Trouble Starting Piece
Looking for some advice…I have student who stutters everytime he starts to play. He’ll replay his starting note numerous times before finally getting into the song. Once he gets going, he plays well. But if there’s a break in his playing, or the start of…
Practice on Vacation
A student is on a 6-week road trip. His mom just texted, “My piano player has been missing his piano. It is his coping mechanism when the world gets overwhelming. I didn’t realize how much piano helps him. Do you know of general places–besides music…
Practice Pads and Controlling the Events
I’m in my second month of teaching Simply Music, and I have groups of mostly 3-6 kids. I have four practice pads that I got laminated but not mounted. Initially I tried using the practice pads, but I found it frustrating, especially with the younger…
Controlling The Events Hands Together
Knowing the paramount importance of controlling the events when getting hands together for the first time in a piece how does one handle this in a group? Would it be adequate enough to do a demo with one student at the piano and then get…
The Power in Using the Practice Pads
I had an interesting lesson today – something new! I teach my Wednesday lessons at a local little church – several lessons back to back, so there’s no time for any late starts. It’s a nice facility and works really well for my lessons. I…
Playing with Practice Pads and External Speaker
“Another thing I remember Jy saying was that if they don’t do it in your studio, they won’t do it at home. So I incorporated greater use of the keypad before going to the piano with both private and group lesson students. I gently but…
Using Practice Pads
With regard to the recent discussions about Practice Pads, I wish to add a word of caution. Please be careful to make sure that only a small or modest percentage of your class time is spent with individual students processing content on their individual Practice…
Processing Patterns
Just wanted to share an experience I had with my daughter. She was going through her Playlist and had trouble recalling a small section of Dog?. She tried to figure it out but no luck. Later on that day (whilst I was driving and she…
Unfolding the Lesson
I’ve been digging around in Simpedia but not finding quite what I was looking for. In a chat (or phone?) transcript I found my exact question but it was never answered: Can you offer some innovative ways to unfold the lesson, besides in the hands,…