keypads

I’ve read in Kat M.’s post about travelling. So, here’s a question to all INTERNATIONALLY travelling teachers. I’m travelling in Europe for a month in the summer and the airline charges an arm and a leg if I took a keyboard. How do you travel…

• Last updated 11 months ago
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A student is on a 6-week road trip. His mom just texted, “My piano player has been missing his piano. It is his coping mechanism when the world gets overwhelming. I didn’t realize how much piano helps him. Do you know of general places–besides music…

• Last updated 4 years ago
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One thing I love about starting a new group is a chance for me to “do it better”. To put more emphasis on things I might have glossed over previously. I have a couple of adult beginning classes and I am using keypads more than…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• improving teaching, keypads, Laurie Richards, teacher improvement, teaching experience

Are there any guidelines for teaching Fur Elise to a group? Neil Moore teaches it on the training videos right at the piano. I’m not sure how to transfer this for a group. This is for the very first portion from Foundation 1. I usually…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• F1, foundation 1, Fur Elise, key pads, keypads, level 1, playing-based strategies, round robin, teaching Fur Elise to a group

For workshops, is there a recommended limit to how many students per piano, compared with how many you can have in a typical (non workshop) shared lesson? Somewhere I heard a suggestion of only 2 people per piano in a workshop, but for shared lessons…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• keypads, Laurie Richards, managing shared lessons, Night Storm, shared lessons, teaching on one piano, Workshops

I remember Neil brilliantly teaching a large group at a recent seminar but I didn’t take good enough notes. I have just combined kids from 3 different lessons into one group of 6 and two of the moms are balking—want more playing time and individual…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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My groups are all starting this coming week. I have only taught shared lessons of 2 people so far. Would someone be willing to share an example of how you teach a song to a group (when the students go to the piano, when to…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• group lessons, keypads, leading groups, Playlist, practice pads

I was wondering how you all set up your groups of 5 or more. I have the chairs arranged in a horse shoe shape. Do you have the moms sitting next to their child of do you separate the kids from the parents? I was…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• coaches, group lessons, keypads, Laurie Richards, practice pads, room set up, shared lessons

I finally started teaching the continuing education workshop just last night. 14 had signed up, 11 showed up, and at least 1 of the absent people is fairly certain to join in starting next week. So I’ve got a much bigger group than what I’m…

• Last updated 3 years ago
• keypads, large groups, practice pads, shared lessons

I am a new teacher. I teach a small group of 5. Today we put Dreams hands together. I felt that I needed at least 2-3 minutes individual time with each student to help “control the events” on the piano as they put it together.…

• Last updated 9 years ago
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