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Dr. Rachel Ehring is a true creative! She shares all the many hats she wears, and the solutions she has found and developed for each. We talk:

All the things! Here are her top 3 tips for beginning teachers

1. Don't try to do everything. It's easy to get "shiny object" syndrome and want to try everything you hear about, but you have to choose what is going to be the most useful thing right now and focus on that

2. That being said...don't be afraid to try new activities, games, tools. You will start to build an arsenal of activities that you can use "on the fly" if you have a squirrely student or one who is having a hard time grasping a concept. 

3. Stories are a great way to connect with students. You can use storybooks about music. I've also created short "sound effect stories" that I use with my beginning students to teach simple musical concepts. 

Speaking of stories, characters and stories can be fantastic to help students memorize, details to come about techniques to teach Memorizing Mastery and Performance without Anxiety!

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Dynamic Piano Teaching Podcast

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TopMusic Piano Podcast

Etsy Store (Sound Effect Stories)

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Bravely take on any potentially challenging conversations with piano parents to bring the collaboration of student, teacher, and parent together all for the students' successful piano education. Things like

Student not practicing all their pieces

Recital piece not ready in time

Cutting back studio

Raising prices

And tips for communicating any change in your studio

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Have any piano students on the Autism spectrum? How about ADHD? Dislexia? Maybe they are just very wiggly? If you haven't had the pleasure of teaching piano to students with different challenges, we will fill you in.... You teach them...differently!

Pop in my conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Davis-Everhart where she shares her own struggles from herself and her students, and some of the solutions she has found.

A true expert in the field, a Piano Teacher Pro. Her top tips:

1. Observe. Keep notes on your lessons what worked and what didn't

2. First teach the student, keep them at the center

3. The best teachers are students, keep learning!

Facebook: Creative Piano Pedagogy

Instagram: creative_piano_pedagogy

Website: www.elizabethdavispiano.com

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As a mom of 4 kids I get it!

In this episode I share a few quick tips and some longer term solutions for tired piano teachers.

My friend Jessica Allen has been teaching for 30 years (even longer than me!) and has over 60 students including younger child group classes through the Let's Play Music program, which she explains the idea behind and the process of using this program.

I also asked her to share some method books she has used and which types of students they are a good fit for. She shows the books on video if you want to check out the YouTube version or Spotify video podcasts.

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Links for the books we talked about:

Piano Safari

Wunderkeys

Supersonics

Piano Pronto

Fired Up 

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Our culture sees imagination it as kind of childish, I'm here to offer that imagination can not only enhance our students' musical expression, but can improve our lives as we picture the studio and life of our dreams!

I pictured in my mind a job at home with my kids, teaching children something I am passionate about, with the flexibility I can manage around my life! Teaching piano became the reality.

Imagine having a set of questions to help students find their notes on their own!

Imagine having a set of sayings to match the rhythms you can pull out for that particular student who just isn't getting it!

Imagine your students having a knowledge of scales and how they connect to chords they can carry with them to wherever music takes them!

Imagine a small community of piano teachers we can bounce ideas off each other, learn the best usable tools, and get your questions answered!

Only a few days left until the Piano Teacher Toolbox 6 week group closes: January 31st at midnight! Only 8 spots available come join!

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First click here for info on an upgrade from the piano teacher primer course, the piano teacher TOOLBOX a 6 week small group packed with masterclasses, "done for you" games, Q & A, and bouncing ideas off each other. only 8 spots open now, starts February 1st.

Jessica Homewood of "not your mother's piano studio" is here sharing how she runs most of her studio in a group lesson format, but we also go into how she grew a new studio after moving to a new area. Google reviews, SEO, group lessons, plus her top 3 prime tips for new-ish piano teachers. Good advice for all of us really!

1. Don't wait until the "right time"

2. Treat it like a business, but keep it simple

3. HAVE FUN!

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No Printout Playbook

Group Piano

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Going into more detail on how to start teaching classical music to piano students,

and my go-to resources with the easiest classical music ever written for piano.

Also, you gotta listen to episode 49. 3 tips on choosing music for students because once I have a book for the student, then we choose a piece using these steps.

Here are a few of my go-to resources for early level classical music in piano lessons:

Masterwork Classics ed. by Jane Magrath

Piano Literature Volume 3 ed. by Bastien

Piano Repertoire ed. by Keith Snell

Suzuki Piano method

The Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature by Jane Magrath

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Listen in for 4 no-guilt, no-resolution, no-stress

1. Learn a new piece yourself, or maybe pick up a new instrument!

2. Try some new teaching books, method books, new pieces, new approaches to teach to your students.

3. Test out some new apps/games/worksheets, or all 3, just to shake things up!

4. A new investment. invest in your instrument, your physical, mental, and emotional health, and invest in your teaching with me at

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At this season of giving, I reflect on what a gift music is in our lives, and in the lives of our students.

The gift that keeps on giving!

Includes service, joy, and magic that spans the generations.

Happy Holidays everyone!

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