In the spirit of the recent arrangement of This Is Halloween from the Nightmare Before Christmas, wanted to share a short late elementary version of Making Christmas. Hope you like it and perhaps one of your students will learn the song. Tried to keep the hands the sam...
The past month has been a bit busier with an upcoming Halloween event with our local and online students. Really excited for the students to share some of their favorite Halloween songs.
Everyday is a learning experience allowing everyone to become who we were created and designed to be. My hope is that everyone becomes who they were intended and destined too become. Please don't miss out on what you called to accomplish.
If you know anything about me I'm not a fan of horror movies. I can't watch movies that are supposed to "scare" us on purpose. Over the years people our communities have expressed both extremes of movies. I don't need someone to create more "fear" in our lives. I will...
Over the past 9 1/2 years of teaching piano, it's always a blessing to find games for beginning students learning and understand the staff. One of the games I've had for a while, yet pulled it out during the summer and I'm still using even now is from susanparadis.com....
When it comes to acting a scene, there are so many factors. Yet the biggest thing is making sure that the student understands the importance of voice inflection. I mean, making sure that student knows what the scene is about and how to make their voice go up or down, b...
Our local school started today and it was big day for every everyone involved. During the day I had a chance to reach out to music teachers I've accompanied in the past to share my prayers for them, especially teachers with upper grades, as they are all online. I want...
In the last month I've been trying some new curriculums that I believe have been very beneficial for our students. When I first started teaching lessons, I used the materials I had or what was recommended, yet I'm at a place where I'm learning about various piano books...
In the past month I've obtained some fun card games that have been beneficial for in house and online lessons. The students are really enjoying the playing the games.
The first is call Note Nabber, presented by KJOS and Three Cranky Women company, has colorful flash car...
I know that tomorrow is the first day of September, yet the past four days I've been thinking and working on ideas for a possible Halloween event for our students. The past two days I've been making YouTube's of some newer songs for our students. Mostly I've been focus...
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