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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, 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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About My Music, Music Education, Piano Teaching  6 Comments

August 20, 2010April 1, 2016

Examination Rules: How Many Hours Practice Does it Take?!

One of my ‘rules’ for a while now has been that students need to do at least 100 hours practice

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