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How to Lead a Group

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…

A Case of the Blues in Level 4

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…

Time Management and Fitting It All In

I’ve been teaching Simply Music for almost a year, and I now have students entering level 4.  My studio space is small so my class size ranges from one to three students. Throughout the past year I have been having increasing difficultly with time management…

Retiring Pieces from Repertoire

I am moving for the first time into Time for More Music. So I’m at a point where I will soon be able to tell students that it’s okay to retire certain pieces from their repertoire. Although I’ve seen recommendations about when one might choose to…

Restoring Students’ Momentum After a Break

Do you have a particular thing that you do the beginning of the year to get everyone focused again? There are three times a year when my studio has a break from lessons. Spring break is a week, summer break is 3 weeks, and Christmas…

Remembering Arrangements

One of my frustrations is that most students seem to forget the arrangements, sometimes after working hard to learn them. Naturally it’s from lack of practice, but the arrangements are easier to forget since they’re not written down. Adults especially have trouble even remembering them…

Teen Students & Parents

I have a couple of teenagers (16 and 17) that have years of previous experience and have been with Simply Music since summer ’09. They both catch on easily and are wonderfully capable of going forward.  However, neither of them are keeping their playlist alive and…

Managing Students Who Don’t Follow Instructions

I have an adult student who has been SO keen and enthusiastic and constantly comes back saying that he has gone further into the video, and taught himself, pieces we have not covered yet. I have explained a few times that this is not acceptable.…

Students Processing and/or Resisting our Approach to Reading

I have an adult male student, 35, in the middle of Level 3 (Shared Lesson with one other adult), more than half way through Accompaniment 1, and with many Variations and Arrangements on his Playlist, who has a very hard time keeping his Playlist alive.…

Dealing with an Impatient Student

The following is an email exchange between Carrie L., Michigan and Kim L.  Questions and answers were edited and organized in a particular order. She has had prior lesson experience and is very quick and smart. The 2nd lesson her mom mentioned that she gets…