Foundation Songs

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Students having difficulty with the order of Night Storm

I seem to be having increasing numbers of students struggling to put Night Storm together in the correct order between the lesson at which it teach it and the next lesson. Have other had this problem, and what’s your strategy to overcome it? I watched…

Students Struggling to Play Night Storm BH

I seem to be having increasing numbers of students struggling to put Night Storm together in the correct order between the lesson at which I teach it and the next lesson. I’ve had people coming back who play the whole first section 2 times and…

Warm-up Song

Using Chester Chills Out as an ongoing warm up exercise is appealing to me. One advantage is keeping the song alive over a long period of time. It can be played fast/slow, white/black notes. After level one, the next step is to take the advancing…

Student without a life coach

I have a blind, autistic adult student who lives in a group home and goes home on weekends. She plays the piano every day and up until about a month ago, I assumed that someone was with her when she practiced, that there was someone…

Blues Riffs

The blues riff of Light Blue that was taught in one of the recent Playground newsletters was FANTASTIC! I’m sorry I can’t find it again and I forget who taught it, but thanks! I’ve been playing it for my students and they love it. Where…

Accompaniment and Amazing Grace in Level 2‏

I am trying to figure out what to do with the Amazing Grace in Level 2. I have started the Accompaniment program with many of my groups at the end of Level 1 or towards the beginning of Level 2. I think this is a…

Level 8 – Food for Thought

I have taught Level 8 to dozens of students over the past six years or so. I recall that the first time I was surprised by some of the songs–thinking they were not as challenging (at first glance) as I expected them to be. I…

Teaching Level 8

I believe someone was mentioning Level 8 in some prior comments, so I thought I would add my 2 cents about teaching this level. Level 8 is always very interesting to teach!  I had a student just this week tell me that she was going…

Level 8, D-Part

I was wondering if anybody else has had difficulty memorizing D-Part?  I can play the hands separate from memory, but to put them together and do it from memory I can only do it using my ear rather than really knowing what I’m doing. I…

Shoo-Fly is it Blues?

I’ve just done Shoo-Fly, and in the video Neil says it’s a blues song.  I can’t figure out how it is Blues. So far I’ve learnt that Blues fits the I IV V pattern sometimes with a few variances. I can’t see any 12-bar blues pattern with…