Category: Piano Teaching
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Piano Exam Times – November 2011
Exam times for the forthcoming sessions are below. All the times have now been posted. The venue is Stanley Palace, Watergate Street, Chester. Times are as follows: (Saturday 10th December, 2011) DANIEL 11:30am SHEA 11:42am RUTH 11:54am MATTEA 12:06pm AMELIA 12:26pm BETH 12:46pm (Thursday 15th December, 2011) DOMINIC 9:30am Please try to arrive at least 10…
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Events Newsletter – Autumn 2011
I used to produce a paper newsletter featuring the dates for forthcoming piano exams and concerts along with other important information however this has now been superseded by the e-newsletter facility on the blog to which all of my students should be subscribed . It also gives me the opportunity to draw your attention to other professional activities in…
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Flashcards – Create your own learning resources
Since the start of term I have been using a variety of flashcards intensively with my students to improve note recognition in sight reading . It has proved to be popular with my students as they can compete to see who can accurately read and play the notes in a shortest space of time. Some…
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Autumn Leaves Composition Project
Over the next half term I am running a composition project in which all my students are entitled to take part. The composition entitled “Autumn Leaves” must fit with the video and could take the form of a backing track or a song. There is a score of the appropriate length already set up on…
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Three years later – Making Progress
One of the joys of being a piano teacher is being able to appreciate the progress your students have made from the effort they have put in to their studies. I would like to share some of the progress that three students have made since they were last featured on my blog three years ago.…