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Category Archives: Keyboards
41/60 The “Father Christmas” scale
When I’ve young piano pupils learning their scales at this time of year, I sell them D major as “The Christmas Scale”. Yes, I know, offering a scale as a Christmas Treat might not seem to be totally in the … Continue reading
35/60 The finger puppets have arrived!
I posted a while ago that I had ordered some finger puppets. It was over a month ago! I’m more used to deliveries taking a matter of days, rather than weeks, or even a month. I had pretty much given … Continue reading
Posted in Keyboards, Lessons that have happened, Piano
Tagged finger puppets., piano lessons
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34/60 Christmas is a time for sudden progess
At this time of year I switch to focussing on Christmas Carols. With careful choice of book, many of the students will make great gains in confidence and motivation. As well as choosing “off-the-shelf” books, I’ve also transposed carols into … Continue reading
Posted in Cello Teaching, Keyboards, Piano, Practising, Sight Reading
Tagged Christmas Carols, motivation, practising, sight reading
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14/60 Lead Sheets and Piano Lessons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_sheet At the music service that I work for (when I’m not working for other schools or as a private teacher) we have been revising the piano curriculum that supports and underpins what we teach. For the first time, teaching … Continue reading
2017/8 More Music for Ensembles
I teach a couple of mixed-age, mixed ability keyboard ensembles. Finding suitable mixed-age, mixed-ability ensemble music is a perennial challenge. The BBC Ten Pieces resources includes several arrangements of classical music for ocarinas, and I have selected the Mozart Horn … Continue reading
98/100 Lovely Evening – 3-part round
Here’s another round that I will be using with my beginner keyboard ensemble. It works on a similar principle to Nanuma except that the last line is even easier – just repeated Cs. That will be useful for when a new … Continue reading
97/100 Nanuma – 4-part round
This is a traditional African round – you can find it in all sorts of places and song books. Here is one version – sometimes the top note is a B flat, sometimes it is a B natural. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Keyboards, Lessons that have happened, Songs
Tagged ensemble, rounds
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