Gordon Harvey

Just wanted to share with you a happy Simply Music experience. I have been teaching SM for about 3 years now. This year I entered 2 of my students in the Toowoomba Eisteddfod. Unfortunately, the piano section has preset boundaries as to what can be…

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Advanced Teachers: Talk to me about how to approach teaching compound time is this in relation to any particular piece? For example Greensleeves is in 6/8 and High Five is in 12/8. I would keep the explanation simple to students, but it’s basically dividing the…

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I committed this week to paying for phone book advertising and have been having second thoughts. I don’t want to waste money on advertising, yet want to do what I need to do to get students. I really want to teach shared lessons. My perception…

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Jazz program.The key of Solace of the Wind. First off I might say it’s C Minor with it’s key signature and initial chord but it’s the final chord that’s supposed to be the final arbiter, right? And that’s A flat Minor. In fact the whole…

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Thought it might be worth sharing this advice about hygiene around the piano, from the Piano Technician’s Guild (via Bernie’s Music Land, who by the way, deserve support from any of our Victorian SM teachers) COVID-19 and Piano Care – https://www.ptg.org/covid-19 Orignial discussion started March 19, 2020

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Another online teaching question… How do you do the notes at the end of the lesson? I may have the camera on my whiteboard as I write it. Or I just speak out what they need to write. I have them send me a photo of…

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I need to start jazz clues soon with a number of students. Help me understand what we mean by “jazz” and how it differs from the accompaniment things (playing all types of chords, variations) we’ve already been doing. I believe Neil talks about perceptions of…

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Transcription projects in Reading Notes: are you just having them write notes on a staff as you verbalize different intervals? Do you start having them identify note names as they figure out intervals? Other ways to do transcription projects with notes? Yes Jen they write…

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Just wondering when do triplets get introduced in the curriculum? For some reason I did not see them in RR. Are they mentioned later in context of a specific song? I believe the first time they appear is in Blues & Improv “hickory” rhythm. But…

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A parent asked me tonight “when will my daughter be able to hear a song, and just know how to play it with all the chords and in the right key?” I was unsure how to answer this, so of course I told the truth,…

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