Practicing & Playlists
Why Insist on Using the Playlist
I have a few students who do not actually mark their playlists. They are playing beautifully, and just use their table of contents to go through all the songs every day. The parents confirm that the practice daily and long. Should I insist on the…
Managing the Playlist Portion of the Lesson
Up to this point in my Simply Music teaching, I have had groups of two students. In September I will begin an adult group with 5 students. How do you handle the playlist portion of the lesson? What do you have other students do while…
Playlist – Keeping Songs Alive
Here’s a scenario… young girl (about 4th grade) is playing well. Father has said in the past she loves it and they’re so glad that they found me. Student isn’t always completely accurately so I asked her to go back and watch the video to…
Checking the Playlist
Do you find that with young students it is acceptable to have them color their the space (instead of checking it off) after they have practiced on the particular day? I am wondering if the coloring may have any advantage over checking. I would be…
Keeping Playlists Long Term
While this may be a silly question… I’ve not given any instructions to my students as to how long to keep their playlists since I started 3 yrs ago. Is there really much need, beyond a month or two back, to keep old playlists? Yes,…
How to Remedy a Sloppy Playlist
I have a group of adults where one is much faster than the others. I finally moved the faster one out of that group… should have done it sooner. Meanwhile, I moved too fast for the slower two people, partly because I wanted to make…
How Do I Revive the Playlist
I have a sister and brother (11 and 8) who have been taking for 2 years now in a Shared Lesson and are in Level 4, but cannot play very many of the songs from Levels 1-3. My routine with lessons is that the first…
Helping Restore a Spotty Playlist
I’m wondering if you have any suggestions for a student who has taken a sabbatical from lessons due to a house remodel. She is a 10 year old girl, gone from lessons for about 4 months, returning next month. Her playlist was always a bit…
Playlist Practice Issues
i have made up a haphazard list of playlist practice ideas to give students ideas for different ways of going through their songs to keep them alive. Some of the ideas I have gotten from other teachers. i would like to get even more ideas.…
Playlist Games
After reading Simpedia postings and experiencing answers from my students to my question, “Can I have a look at your Playlist”, I decided only a couple of nights ago to write up the songs of each level on individual small cards and group them into…