comp and improv

I love very advanced students and seem to be acquiring more of them as I go along. They are fun because of the pace we move and how many extra projects can be explored and accomplished. This type of student, however, will typically fly through…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, advanced students, arrangements, comp and improv, Laurie Richards, learning a way of learning, student home material, students moving quickly, tools and strategies

I have just had a call from an adult student with 10 years traditional background as a child, who, since seeing more advanced students playing at the my first recent piano concert, she is eager to get ahead and move faster with the program, feeling…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, adult students, advanced students, arrangements, comp and improv, composition, group lessons, previous experience, traditional background

I’m wondering about how to bring in Composition/Improvisation, Accompaniments, and Arrangements 1 for my students? I’m a pretty new teacher and my most advanced students are starting Amazing Grace in Foundation 1. When do I start to introduce these other programs? How much of each…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• Amazing Grace, arrangements, comp and improv, composition, Dreams Come True, improvisation, Night Stor, unfolding special materials

Let me preface this by saying that I’m a new Simply Music teacher with a lot of students who transferred into SM within my studio. The students are universally enjoying the program. Most of my students participate well in the composition process, but I have…

• Last updated 9 years ago
• being right, comp and improv, composing, Honey Dew, pentatonic, perfection

I have two students, both in Level 4, who have a bad case of the blues….a definite valley syndrome. Neither of them want to mark their playlist, let alone keep all their earlier songs alive. Both moms are very supportive Simply Music moms but they’re struggling…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• 100th lesson, accompaniment, celebration, chords, comp and improv, group lessons, I-IV-V, Long Term Relationship, Playlist, reading program, valley on Level 4

Anyone ever run into this problem of an experienced player who doesn’t fit into a group because of how much more quickly he’s going through curriculum. He’s had 5 lessons, he’s at the middle of level 3, through the accomp. book, processed most of accompaniment…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, advanced players, arrangements, comp and improv, lesson scheduling, rates, teacher responsibility, trust the method

I am a new SM teacher willing to travel to a neighboring town to teach four students from three families. The decision was a simple one, since those families would not have signed up had they all had to drive out to my location. I…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• comp and improv, group lessons, shared lessons, split classes, young children

I have just taken on a student with 6 years traditional experience. She’s 13. Her mother says that getting her to practice and attend her traditional lessons was becoming a bone of contention within the family and she is rebelling. She basically hates piano and…

• Last updated 8 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, comp and improv, keeping them interested, previous experience, reluctant students, teenagers, traditional students