Laurie Richards
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 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.…
Adult Students Marking the Playlist
I am wondering about how other teachers find getting adults to tick the playlist. Especially men look at me with that “Not going to happen, lady” look in their eye. I am finding that retired women seem happy enough to do it, and some personality…
Variations & Arrangements – Taking Notes
I have a questions about writing notes for Variations/Arrangements. I understand clearly from all my training materials that there are no support materials for this, and I am not to let them write down notes or clues for how the songs went. So, I am…
What To Charge For Shared Lessons
I have struggled with this alot. Half of my students are in Private Lessons but paying Shared Lesson rates, as I don’t have someone to partner them with. What I need to do is cut down the lesson time by 5 minutes as I resent…
Students Unhappy in Shared Lessons
I have a student who is not happy in her shared lesson. She’s in a shared lesson with one other student around the same age and has been for about 2 months. It seemed she was happy in the situation for the first month or…
Shared lesson, different learners
I was wondering if there might be any quick solutions for this: Two girls, same age, been together in shared lesson for couple of years are about to start level 4. Girl 1 is ready, girl 2 is not. Girl 1 does arrangements, composition, improvising, accompaniment.…
Putting Private Students Together
I’m full only because I have 5 private lessons that are probably too far from each other to catch up and pair together. Any thoughts on this? For example I have one student at the beginning of Book 4 and one finishing Book 4, one…
New Student Struggling
The mother of a 6-yr-old that recently began lessons called me this evening and said that every day at home practice has been a struggle with her child throwing a tantrum or crying every time. When I asked her if it seems to hard for…
New Student Frustrated Already
So, I just recently signed up a 6 year old soon-to-be seven year old. She has had one lesson… and I got a phone call from her mom today stating that, her daughter had been getting frustrated. Putting her head down on the keyboard, and…