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About My Music, Music Education, Piano Teaching  2 Comments

December 21, 2018December 22, 2018

THE Piano Teaching Trend of 2018

Last week, Amy Chaplin, of Piano Pantry, asked piano teachers in various Facebook groups what they thought the big trends

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Music Education, Piano Teaching  3 Comments

March 11, 2016May 24, 2016

What is a “method”?

In English, we often use the same word to mean two, or more, different things. Bow, for instance, can mean

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Creativity, Music Education, Piano Teaching  12 Comments

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016

5 Brilliant Ways to Begin Teaching Improvisation to Beginners

Making things up seems like the polar opposite to learning how to do something. And most very first piano lessons

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Music Education, Music Theory, Piano Teaching  21 Comments

November 4, 2015December 22, 2018

How to Find Your Key (in a piece of music)

The single most common question I receive from piano teachers around the world revolves around the issue of knowing what key

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Music Education, Piano Teaching  20 Comments

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

Dichotomies in Piano Pedagogy

One piano lesson is pretty much the same as another, it might be easy to think, other than the style

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Classical Music, Creativity, Culture, Education, Music Education, Piano Teaching  9 Comments

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015

Repertoire: a “well-defined” or “ill-defined” problem?

Creativity is a goal oft-cited by parents wanting their off-spring to take piano lessons, and yet I find myself wondering

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Music Education, Piano Teaching  8 Comments

March 9, 2015June 19, 2015

The Blessing of Professional Development “Tithing”

  Piano teachers are a professional cohort driven by a desire to do good in the world much more than

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Music Education, Music Theory, Piano Teaching, Scale of the Day  5 Comments

March 3, 2015June 17, 2015

How Many Arpeggios Are There? Really?

My colleague and friend, Samantha Coates, was wondering aloud on Facebook the other day just how many arpeggios there were.

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40 Piece Challenge, About Elissa Milne, Music Education, Piano Teaching  25 Comments

February 4, 2015August 12, 2015

Where did the 40 Piece Challenge begin?

I honestly didn’t expect the 40 Piece Challenge to go global the way it has quite as rapidly as it

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Music Education, Piano Teaching  8 Comments

December 28, 2014December 23, 2015

The Night Before Christmas

This year my piano students have been absolutely mad keen on learning Christmas carols. Not so much keen to work

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