Do your students ever come back to a lesson and say they forgot how to play a particular scale? Perhaps even though you’ve written it down for them, or they have a scales book to look at? That’s the problem I wanted to solve when I set out to create these scale practice videos and…
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Making Scales Stick – 7 Different Ways to Practice Scales
Do your students get bored during scale practice? Do YOU get bored during your students’ scale practice? I know I’ve certainly been both the bored student and the bored teacher in that situation. That’s why I’m always thinking up new ways to practice scales. I think challenging students to play in new ways can keep their minds…
Scale Lottery – A Way to Gamify Scale Practice
For piano exams, students will often have a long list of scales and arpeggios that they need to review. I try to inject a little fun and gamification into this using popsicle sticks. I created this bag for one of my grade 3 students, simply by writing all the possible scales on lollipop sticks and…