Studio Management

This is my first official post as a “teaching” licensed teacher!! Yeah! It’s nice to be able to jump in and ask pertinent questions. I’ve learned so much from all of you. I know it is a judgement call on how much information to unfold…

• Last updated 8 years ago
• Chinese Dreams, DCT, Dreams, Dreams Come True, how fast to move, learning pace, level 1, listening to the audio recordings, Night Storm, Night Storm inc, NS, rhythm, unfolding material

I have a student that has a difficult time keeping a beat. She is 6, has been with me since September is almost through Level 1. Week to week she can follow through with my corrections and suggestions for her songs but then loses them…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• listening to audio recordings, playing too fast, rhythm difficulty

How important is it to play the upper level songs by memory? I have found the songs beginning in Level 8 to be more difficult to remember. Even with Canon in D (Level 7) many students have a hard time remembering, even though it’s very…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• keeping songs alive, memorizing harder pieces, upper levels

I’m just launching the Playlist Management program in my studio and absolutely loving the simplicity and clarity it bring to the whole playlist process. Besides the engaging and straightforward training in how to use these new playlists, the training was also packed with lots of…

• Last updated 8 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, accompaniment games, games, name that tune, playlist games, playlist management, snakes and ladders

There are some very simple games students can use at home. I used to use these when I taught traditionally and realized these could work really well with Simply Music, especially in driving home the point about CTE. Sometimes we spend a few minutes in…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• controlling the events, games, Laurie Richards

The school near me is having a talent show and a couple of my students want to perform. One really wants to do a duet. Any ideas of what she could do to have a duet with another student? One student (4th grade) is in Level 6, while…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• Duet Ideas, Laurie Richards, recital, talent shows

Can I open a discussion about duets in general and how playing in public in a duet in approached? This is a response I sent to a parent who was not happy a student played a duet and not a solo at a Christmas Sing-a-long.…

• Last updated 5 years ago
• claiming territory, coaches, duets, Gordon Harvey, letting students go, playing duet at recital, unhappy parent

Yesterday I did an FIS for a student that has had 2 years of traditional lessons. She is a cousin of my student that also has had 2 years of lessons, all SM! The Mom wants to switch her daughter to me because she is…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• four goals, Free Introductory Sessions, group lessons, learning a new way of learning, previous experience, shared lessons, traditional students to SM

I know this is an old thread, but I too have struggled with the student with prior experience. While I agree with introducing C& I, Arrangements, and Accomp, and boning up with the Reading rhythm and notes, my question is this: Do you still have…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, arrangements, claiming territory, comp and improv, prior experience, reading, students that already read music, traditional students

This is an edited outline of an email posted on the Forum by one of our teachers. She was a relatively new student herself at the time she began her Teacher Training. Her experience, as outlined below, is not uncommon. I have also included responses…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• learning as a student, staying ahead of students, teacher training