piano teacher primer

In this episode I tackle tech! Sharing the very few technologies I have braved figuring out to help make life easier as a piano teacher, and bring in some educational fun! I also enlisted the help of…

This sweet, warm, kind, musical, dedicated, creative Grandma-lady was my piano teacher through all my elementary years. She's been teaching since 1962, and has 16 studeents to this day!

You'll hear …

Make extra money--->teaching children to play--->

Play games to teach---->children play to learn--->

Play with children--->while making money--->

Make money to play more with your own children--->

Be…

Another one of my hobbies is gardening, but for aliving I’m growing piano students.

Think for a minute of what you are growing as a piano teacher. Not only students getting taller than their teacher,…

Teaching piano has given me freedom in the following ways:

1. As a creative person

2. As a mom

3. As a saver

4. And as a professional

I explain how teaching piano has given me freedom of creative ex…

Curious about sharing your love for music?

Thought about teaching piano but unsure where to begin?

This podcast episode is the perfect starting point!

Come along as we unravel the secrets to success…

Some more piano teaching success stories comin at ya, but instead of from my own students, we have 3 of my clients. Piano teacher successes happening all over the country! From Utah to Kentucky to Ge…

On this episode I mini-interview 2 of my actual students one current and one past: Mary and Tyler.

They each have overcome a lot to be able to perform as well as they do. They share what has been he…

Heart beating,

palms sweating,

breathing faster,

hard to concentrate….you know what that means….stage fright or performance anxiety.

Something we all deal with to some extent, and our goal is not…

Have you or your students experienced these worst-case scenarios?

1. Go up to perform…can’t remember the starting notes.
2. Or the performance is going pretty well, then get stuck and can’t finish!
…

Dr. Rachel Ehring is a true creative! She shares all the many hats she wears, and the solutions she has found and developed for each. We talk:

• teaching resources, private and group
• accompanying (s…

Bravely take on any potentially challenging conversations with piano parents to bring the collaboration of student, teacher, and parent together all for the students' successful piano education. Thin…

Have any piano students on the Autism spectrum? How about ADHD? Dislexia? Maybe they are just very wiggly? If you haven't had the pleasure of teaching piano to students with different challenges, we …

As a mom of 4 kids I get it!

In this episode I share a few quick tips and some longer term solutions for tired piano teachers.

My friend Jessica Allen has been teaching for 30 years (even longer than me!) and has over 60 students including younger child group classes through the Let's Play Music program, which she explains t…

Our culture sees imagination it as kind of childish, I'm here to offer that imagination can not only enhance our students' musical expression, but can improve our lives as we picture the studio and l…

First click here for info on an upgrade from the piano teacher primer course, the piano teacher TOOLBOX a 6 week small group packed with masterclasses, "done for you" games, Q & A, and bouncing ideas…

Going into more detail on how to start teaching classical music to piano students,

and my go-to resources with the easiest classical music ever written for piano.

Also, you gotta listen to episode …

Listen in for 4 no-guilt, no-resolution, no-stress NEW ideas you can try to make things more fun for your students and for yourself as a teacher!

1. Learn a new piece yourself, or maybe pick up a new…

At this season of giving, I reflect on what a gift music is in our lives, and in the lives of our students.

The gift that keeps on giving!

Includes service, joy, and magic that spans the generations…