Following the second entry I have submitted to the LCM exams, Dominic came away with a distinction (86/100) in his Step 1 Piano Exam and was very keen to share some of his favourite pieces from the exam in this video.
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March: Month of Concerts
Instead of organising one end of term concert for my students this term, there will be five! Four of the concerts will be taking place in schools during the school day and will be an opportunity for EVERY piano student in that particular school to take part in a performance. As usual, I will also be inviting some of my students to take part in the end of term “Playing Together” Charity Concert which will be held at All Saint’s Church , Hoole.The concert listed below in bold are the piano concerts. I have also included some details of a few other concerts in which I will be taking part this month for information!
12th March – Upton Heath – 9am15th March – Saighton – 10am
17th March – CMSYC Spring Concert, All Saint’s, Hoole – 7:30pm
24th March – NES Spring Concert, Neston Parish Church – 7:30pm
26th March – St. Werburgh’s – 10am
27th March – St. Oswald’s – 2:45pm
31st March – “Playing Together”, All Saint’s Hoole – 11am
3rd April – Nave Choir Passion tide Devotion, Chester Cathedral – 7:30pm
As a taster for the forthcoming series of concerts, the video clip below features the talented Year 3 Pianists at St. Werburgh’s taking part in their own concert at the start of this term.
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Sea-side composition
An update on the Sea Idylls Composition Project 2012v1.1 of the video template is now available. The format and structure remains unchanged but the video track now includes some moving images amongst the sequence of stills.
To use the updated video template in your noteflight composition, you need to delete the current video from your score, then copy and paste the new template URL ” http://youtu.be/hQd0TtVF38w ” as a video track on your sea idylls score.
I am really pleased with the amount of effort going into the current composition project. There are 31 scores currently in progress, many are nearly finished and will soon be ready to record the audio and render the final videos.
Starting this coming week, I will be incorporating listening activities into the curriculum I teach in piano lessons. The listening material will be available through an evernote shared folder which students can access on their iPods/iPads etc. Visit the folder link above on the device and it should open the link in Evernote and give the option to link to your evernote account so that it is always easily accessible within the app. Listening for the rest of the term will be around the nautical theme to fit around the Sea Idylls project and thereafter will be tied in with the theme of study/composition project for the term. -
Playing Together – 31st March 2012
The next “Playing Together” concert is due to take place at All Saint’s Church, Hoole starting at 11am on Saturday 31st March 2012.Ticket sales for the concert will continue to support a student bursary at Kampala Music School. Tickets are priced £3/adult and £1/child and can be purchased in advance using the paypal button below or may be purchased on the door.
The programme will feature a variety of solos, duet and piano-based ensembles performed by students and friends of Will Hay Piano Tuition
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Audio Targets with Evernote
The traditional paper lesson notebook has finally come of age. Many students regularly use their mobile devices for purposes other than just playing games. Now they are encouraged to use the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Android Phone, Android Tablet, Blackberry, Windows or Mac Laptop to help with piano practise.I have been using Evernote to keep student lesson notes since September. The best thing about the app is the way it instantly synchronises the notes between all of my devices so whether the lesson is carried out in school and I’ve made notes on the laptop or at my home studio and I’ve made them on the desktop, I know they’ll always be wherever I need them.
This technology enables the use of “audio targets” in lessons. During the lesson, I will demonstrate to the student the section of the piece they need to learn and record it at the speed that I expect them to be able to play it. The audio clip goes into the lesson note in Evernote and is instantly and automatically synchronised with their iPod at home (once the notebook is shared). When they come to practise, they can be reminded exactly what the piece they are doing should sound like and can tell whether they can meet the target. If not, it is clear that they need to practise more until they can play along with the audio clip on the iPod at the target speed.
If you have already had an email through about evernote sharing and have a question, or if you would like to use this facility and haven’t yet had a sharing email through then please get in touch.
