A few years ago, I made the big decision to keep teaching privately over summer break. Almost immediately, I found myself asking: how do I retain my music students and keep them engaged over the summer? With the competition of…
A few years ago, I made the big decision to keep teaching privately over summer break. Almost immediately, I found myself asking: how do I retain my music students and keep them engaged over the summer? With the competition of…
Practice cards, records, journals, logs, charts – whatever you choose to call them – are an invaluable tool when it comes to a student’s musical progress. Over the course of my teaching career, the method I use to track assignments…
Color by Note Name worksheets are my secret weapon. They’re game-changers for those times when schedules are disrupted or when the normal routine needs a little twist. I used to dread making sub plans, rehearsing small sections of difficult groups,…
I don’t know about you, but the decision to move to online lessons for social distancing came at the very last moment for me. From the middle of February 2020, I’d told my families that I’d follow the lead of…
