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Creativity

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About Elissa Milne, Creativity  3 Comments

August 3, 2020May 14, 2021

Chords

Chords have always intrigued me. At times, it would have even been fair to say that I was obsessed with

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Creativity, Education, Piano Teaching  3 Comments

May 31, 2016May 14, 2018

5 Guaranteed Ways To Make Students Less Creative

    You want your students to experience the buzz that comes of being a creator of their own music

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Creativity, Music Education, Piano Teaching  12 Comments

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016

5 Brilliant Ways to Begin Teaching Improvisation to Beginners

Making things up seems like the polar opposite to learning how to do something. And most very first piano lessons

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Classical Music, Creativity, Culture, Education, Music Education, Piano Teaching  9 Comments

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015

Repertoire: a “well-defined” or “ill-defined” problem?

Creativity is a goal oft-cited by parents wanting their off-spring to take piano lessons, and yet I find myself wondering

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