Classical pianists often have a lot of difficulty playing the chordal style of jazz and pop music. Perhaps it's because classical piano ...
Showing posts with label Piano Pedagogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piano Pedagogy. Show all posts
Terrence Dawson on the Collaborative Arts and the Developing Musician
Vancouver-based pianist (and former colleague from my time on faculty at the University of British Columbia) Terence Dawson makes a brillian...
Free Technical Requirements Charts Available for the 2015 RCM Piano Syllabus
Joy Morin over at Color In My Piano has assembled a fantastic free resource for teachers who will be using The Royal Conservatory's 201...
10 Things You Need to Know About the 2015 Royal Conservatory Celebration Series and Piano Syllabus
Every seven to eight years, The Royal Conservatory revises their materials for their Celebration Series and Piano Syllabus, which provides ...
The 2015 Edition of the Royal Conservatory Piano Syllabus is Now Online
After several years of preparation, writing, performing, producing, finalizing, proofreading, editing, and amending, the 2015 Edition of the...
Getting The Most Out Of Your Practice Time
Much of what I tell my students about practicing involves explaining ways of making their work more efficient and rewarding given their ofte...
Chamber Music Connection: Promoting the Role of Chamber Music in a Musician's Development
One of the biggest challenges with developing musicians has always been how to create opportunities for learning chamber music. The Chamber ...
Weekend Links
Keyboard-driven vehicle Here are some links from around the web that are worth a read: Schmopera reviews a recent Canadian Art Song Project...
Piano Duet Partners, Sight Unseen
Ottawa-based pianist and teacher Kathleen Prochnau recently tried out an innovative way of introducing collaborative skills to her group cla...
Finding the Next Generation of Collaborative Pianists
Erica Sipes has written an insightful article on one of the persistent problems with piano pedagogy, the issue of why we don't introduc...
Practicing for Adults
Dick Hensold's lecture on how to practice is one of the best resources out there if you're interested in getting better results in ...
More Use Cases for Evernote in the Music Studio
Since my initial article on how I use Evernote in my teaching process , many CPB readers have contacted me with questions and ideas on how t...
On the Greatest Challenge of Teaching Piano
Arizona-based piano teacher and music therapist Marijane Nguyen writes about what she finds the most challenging, but ultimately the most re...
How to Use Evernote to Track Student Progress and Send Lesson Notes
Many of us have heard a litany of complaints regarding forgotten practice assignments: “What do you mean I was supposed to learn this study?...
Ten Ways to Jump-start Your Professional Development
A few months ago, Gillian Cummings at the Royal Conservatory asked me to write an article on the theme of professional development for their...
Is It Possible To Hack Practicing With The Addicting Properties Of Video Games?
Don't click on this link . Really, don't. The above link goes to Cookie Clicker, one of the simplest, absurdest, and most addi...
Call for Submissions: The Royal Conservatory 2015 Piano Syllabus
One of the reasons that I haven't posted in a while is that I'm currently busy with a number of projects, including being on the rev...
31 Days to Better Practicing: A New Location and Why It Will Always Be Free
In the summer of 2011, I published 31 Days to Better Practicing, a free ebook about how to practice. Since the ebook went live, I'm glad...
Artists are Actually Athletes
We all might think that we are artists, but as far as our bodies are concerned, we are athletes. Realization of the demands of the instrumen...
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