Audio recordings

This past month, I started making a point of assigning students to both LISTEN to the audio tracks and practice playing along with audio tracks HANDS SEPARATELY. Specifically, I’ve started directing students to try playing one hand alone with the audio tracks on a routine…

• Last updated 5 years ago
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Below is an email from a parent. Any advice on strategies I could suggest? This student has been with me for about 6 months. He is in first grade and is moving through Foundation pieces at a just-under-average pace. I have noticed memory is an…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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My adult (late 50s) student loves the playing-based tools but told me today that for Sit By My Side (F5) he finds them hard to use (think about) when putting his hands together, though he uses them well for hands separate on that song. Besides…

• Last updated 6 years ago
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What is the easiest way to record students? Does the voice memo that comes on my iPhone work (i.e. can I save them in files on my computer for when I apply for my certified teacher status) or is there a better way? Is there…

• Last updated 6 years ago
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Re: the last Danny Boy in Accompaniment 2 – one of my students pointed out to me that the first chord in the audio doesn’t sound like the Ab13 that I play on my piano. I have listened over and over and it seems that…

• Last updated 9 years ago
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Please help me with the rhythm of Lead Me to Light. I can’t feel it, and my most advanced group is ready to learn it next week. I’m getting it with counting, but I need to teach it playing-based. I sometimes will sing a lyric…

• Last updated 9 years ago
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I have a student that seems to have rhythmic issues. He is working really hard and has made huge progress but still seems to have a little trouble hearing and processing some of the rhythms. His mom is making him use a metronome at home…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I have two individual cases where my students (both around 9 years old) want to merely “execute” the song – and as fast as possible! I have played to them with a lot of love, with the appropriate speed that the song requires, but once…

• Last updated 8 years ago
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I have a couple students that I know tend to play through their simpler songs asfastastheycan.  I assume that this isn’t the best to help them develop playing with feeling, etc., and the one girl has trouble playing the song itself when she slows down.…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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How do you all use the audio recordings in weekly lessons? Can you give me some ideas? I set aside some lesson time. Go to the website and open the audio recordings. Explain that most students take a while to get the hang of using…

• Last updated 8 years ago
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