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Teaching Yourself Piano: Your Complete Guide

Teaching Yourself Piano: Your Complete Guide

You have interest in piano but don't quite want to commit to official lessons as of right now.  I get it!  I have taught piano for many years and I will share a little secret with you: the majority of learning the piano is self-taught! You can teach yourself the piano...

50 Tips for Piano Teachers

50 Tips for Piano Teachers

Whether you are a new or a seasoned teacher, this list gives you the tips and tricks that you wish you had thought of earlier!  With years of teaching piano lessons and with talking with other teachers, this list compiles all those things I wish I had known when I...

How Much Should I Charge for Piano Lessons?

How Much Should I Charge for Piano Lessons?

  One of the first things a piano teacher needs to figure out is how much to charge.  You want to be able to offer lessons affordably, but you also need to make sure that the work and other cost of material and time that you are putting in is worth it to you! How...

9 Fun Ways to Teach Music History

9 Fun Ways to Teach Music History

After 17 years of searching for creative, fun, or ANY way to teach music history to my piano students....here it is!  When my students give a cheer when I say, "music history", you know you have figured out something right! "Music history" can be anything from...

32 Quick & Easy Ideas for Piano Improv and Composing

32 Quick & Easy Ideas for Piano Improv and Composing

Creating, composing, and improv are one of the secrets to FUN in piano!  I like to have several tricks in my tool belt to pull out for my piano students depending on the amount of time I have. Here is my master list of quick and easy ideas for improvising and...

30+ Fun & Easy Music Theory Games and Activities for Piano Students

30+ Fun & Easy Music Theory Games and Activities for Piano Students

I feel like I am always in search of good, fun, and free music theory games in my piano lessons that are painless to throw together.  I wanted them in one place to just refer back to when I need music theory concepts that I want to teach or review and have fun at the...

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