This is a guest post written by Doug Hanvey. Doug offers online piano lessons for adults at Creative Keyboardist. I was fortunate to be raised by parents who were themselves teachers and understood intuitively, or by experience, how they could best support my learning projects. One of the most beneficial results of their support is that I’ve always been and…
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This post was sponsored by Piano Marvel. All opinions are my own. Do you know those piano students who: Have an awesome ear Have really great technique on the piano Have a mature taste in music Really struggle to read sheet music You know the ones, don’t you? In my studio, we’ve had a number of advancing students over the…
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I notice that a lot of times when my students aren’t making great progress at the piano, it’s for a really simple reason: they just aren’t practicing enough. It’s not very glamorous advice, but most students just need to play their music more in order to play it more confidently and with good continuity. Piano teachers are known for asking…
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With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to share some cute little Valentine’s cards that you can print for students, or that students can print to hand out at school. These cards match the Christmas, Holiday and New Year’s cards that you may have seen here before the holidays. To get the cards delivered straight to your inbox,…
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This post is sponsored by Oktav. All opinions are my own. I recently had a chance to explore Oktav, which is a piano sheet music streaming service. You can think of it kind of like the Netflix of piano sheet music. I was really impressed with the concept and approach of Oktav. It’s a monthly subscription service that gives you…
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