Group workshops can be a wonderful addition to your studio to help your students learn together, play theory games, improvise and socialise. Find out how to bring them into your studio in this episode. Relevant Resources Hippity Hop Your Way to Rhythm Reading Success Bluesy Sounds Cards Practice Power Piano Party Group Workshop Group Lesson…
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How to Teach Music Composition to Piano Students
Do you teach music composition in your piano studio? This is a great way to work on your students’ notation skills, without them even realising they’re doing “theory” and it’s super fun and motivating too. 🙂 If you haven’t dived in yet to teaching composing yet, I can highly recommend it. I do a project like…
How to Choose Your Child’s First Piano or Keyboard
Buying your first piano or keyboard? It can be a difficult choice, you don’t want something that you or your child are going to outgrow in a few months. But you might not want to invest too much is the beginning if you aren’t sure how long you or your child will stick with the…
VMT038: How to jam with the 12 bar blues in group workshops
Ensemble improvisation is one of my favourite activities to do at group workshops. In this episode, I’ll teach you how to do this with the 12 bar blues, no matter what instruments you have available! Relevant Resources Hippity Hop Your Way to Rhythm Reading Success Bluesy Sounds Cards Practice Power Piano Party Group Workshop…
Hippity Hop Your Way to Rhythm Reading Success
Whether you’re celebrating Easter in your music teaching studio, or just the arrival of spring, this rhythm reading game is a great way to do it. Hippity Hop is a bunny-themed game to work on rhythm reading with music students. The full version (available to Vibrant Music Teaching members here) includes 4 different levels of…
VMT037: How to Improve Your Students’ Duet Skills
Do your students get the opportunity to play duets often enough? Find out how to fit in more duet playing and teaching tips to set your students up for success with duets in this episode. Relevant Resources Why You Should Use Improvisation to Teach Duet Skills FULL TRANSCRIPT Click on any word to jump…
Why You Should Use Improvisation to Teach Duet Skills
Playing duets and ensemble pieces is something I believe should be included in every piano students’ education. Duets build camaraderie in your studio and also help students practice listening and interacting with another musician. Piano playing shouldn’t be a purely solo activity but it can often end up that way. Other musicians tend to join…
VMT036: 3 Simple Improvisation Exercises for Music Teachers
Are you apprehensive of getting started with improvisation in your piano teaching? In this episode, I’ll give you 3 super easy improvisation exercise to get you started and help you make your lessons more creative. Relevant Resources Finding Time to Improvise Workshop Hook Theory FULL TRANSCRIPT Click on any word to jump to that point…
3 Easy Ways to Find Time to Improvise in Your Piano Lessons
One of the reasons piano teachers don’t improvise in their piano lessons is that they’re scared. The other big reason is that they just cannot find the time. If you’re apprehensive and need the confidence to jump in then go read this article. But if you’re in the second “no time” camp then stick around….
CKQC050: Understanding intervals with Interval Sprinterval Shminterval
This was one of the first games I created especially for Vibrant Music Teaching members, and it’s become a go-to resource in many studios worldwide…including mine! Here we work on counting out the intervals carefully (counting one where we are) and later on we progressed to counting them in our heads so that the students…