40 Piece Challenge Updates…
The story of more just keeps getting bigger… The latest unexpected development in the 40 Piece Challenge saga is the
40 Piece Challenge
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
The Hal Leonard Australia 40 Piece Challenge 2013: suggestions for getting started
In 2013 Hal Leonard Australia is running a 40 Piece Challenge. And I’m very excited by this news. The challenge is to teachers primarily – can your students each learn at least 40 new pieces in 2013?! This challenge is not a random, out-of-the-blue event. There’s a massive back-story to the development of this 40-Piece Challenge, which you can read about here. But the point of the whole exercise is to encourage students to learn, perform and experience far more music than our exam-focussed culture usually allows. And to do so in order for students to develop much better reading skills and much broader musicianship, which will lead our students to be more likely to play the piano for the rest of their lives (no matter what grade exam they make it to before they stop taking piano lessons). This post isn’t about convincing you that this challenge is a good idea – there are plenty of posts I’ve written
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Elissa Milne 