Author: jazzybrunette
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Challenges with Adult Students
After teaching music for 22 years, I have learned that teaching adult students is very different from teaching children in a lot of ways. Adults have more responsibilities and obligations, more distractions, and not as much structure in place for practice time. I recently came across a great article about the challenges many adult students…
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March Happenings
March marks the one year anniversary of Covid hitting our area. In fact, March 14 was the last day I taught lessons at my local studio. All the local schools had closed down along with many businesses. A week and a half later, I transferred a bunch of my students to an online platform and…
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I got rhythm; how ’bout you?
Rhythm, rhythm, fascinating rhythm. Rhythm in music is super important. It’s a big part of what gives music interest. If all the notes were the same, it would get kind of boring real quick. A good, driving rhythm, pushes the music forward with excitement. A solid but laid back rhythm makes the music seem more…
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Happy New Year!
2020: It’s been a tough year for many people. I, myself, have had some struggles at times with the events of 2020 but overall, I feel it was a successful year. That may seem surprising but let me tell you why. It was a year for challenge and new things. We were forced to rethink…
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Online Lessons
Most of you may know that I teach my music lessons online and have been doing so since the start of covid-19. It seems that even in this day of technology, there are many people that are still hesitant about online lessons. They may be uncomfortable being on camera or are unfamiliar with the technology,…
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Organize Your Music
Having your music organized can be a daunting task for some but it is an important task for your lessons. Staying organized can help you be more ready for your lessons and make your practice more effective too. Now that we are having online-only lessons, there are more opportunities for me to send you music…
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Keyboard Charts
I love my laminator! Its one of the best investments I’ve made for my teaching! Its fun to do, it preserves my manipulatives and visual aids, and anything you laminate instantly becomes a white board surface! Since I have now starting teaching all my private lessons virutally, I knew I would need more visual aids…
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Singing Sticks
I recently attended a virtual music educator’s conference. There was a wealth of knowledge and ideas that I picked up there about how to better manage my classroom, ideas for virtual teaching, new songs and games and tools for students and teachers. A lot of fun stuff and some very creative teachers! One of my…
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First Flute Lesson
Learning to play the flute can be an exciting and rewarding experience. But when you’re first starting out it can also be somewhat difficult. There’s a lot to think about when starting any new instrument. You have to learn how to hold the instrument, how to put it together, how to read the notes, how…
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Piano Hand Positions
Sometime when we first begin to play piano, we learn a few basic hand positions so we can know where our hands go on the piano. And usually we learn one hand position at a time and stay there for several pages or units in your book. Sometimes it can get a little confusing when…
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