by PianoTels | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Teach Piano
Needing some fresh and new ideas for your piano lessons? Hats off to you for that — because you must be a great teacher if you are looking for more creative and fun ideas. Here’s a list to get some ideas flowing. 1. Music Games and Activities Try out a...
by PianoTels | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Learn Piano, Teach Piano
Learning the piano keys on the keyboard? Here is an easy way to learn your piano keys! Piano Key Names.pdf (547 downloads) To appreciate what this visual means, you will want to hear the story that goes with it! What’s the story that goes with the piano...
by PianoTels | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog, Learn Piano, Teach Piano
When you sit down at the piano, you may want to begin your practice with some warm-ups. The following exercises are designed to help you build finger dexterity, finger strength, wrist flexibility, technicality, training the brain, and increasing knowledge of piano. ...
by PianoTels | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog, Learn Piano, Teach Piano
You may have run across a symbol that looks like a squiggly, or zigzag line in your music and you just aren’t sure what it means. Well, there are several squiggly/zigzag lines that can be found in music. So it depends on what you have found! A squiggly or...
by PianoTels | Dec 19, 2019 | Blog, Learn Piano, Lesson Plans for Teaching Beginners, Teach Piano
Jingle Bells is probably the most well loved and most sung song at Christmas time. All the kids want to play it — and adults do to! Here are a few simplified versions for you to play and sing along to. You are welcome to use this, copy it, share it, perform...
by PianoTels | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog, Learn Piano, Teach Piano
You may have heard the terms tonic, dominant, and subdominant. And you may have heard just how fundamental these are to music theory. But I played piano for about fifteen years before I even knew what tonic, dominant, and subdominant was. So what do they mean and...