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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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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P Plate Piano: What is it and why?
On November 1, 2009, throughout Australia, a new series of books from the AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board) will be available in all good music shops: P Plate Piano Books 1, 2 & 3. Australian piano teachers will be quite curious about these new books. The AMEB only publishes materials that are for use in conjunction with their examinations, and the title P Plate Piano doesn’t sound like anything like an examination! And it’s not an examination. But it is an assessment. And there’s a difference… But we’ll come back to that later. Firstly, P Plate Piano is a series you can use alongside any of the method books you use now, and the first book corresponds roughly to the skill level a student would have achieved at the end of the first book of any of the well-known method books. The idea of this series is to map out the various keyboard skills and techniques that students need to master
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