The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers

Ensemble improvisation is one of my favourite activities to do at group workshops. In this episode, I’ll teach you how to do this with the 12 bar blues, no matter what instruments you have available!

Do your students get the opportunity to play duets often enough? Find out how to fit in more duet playing and teaching tips to set your students up for success with duets in this episode.

Are you apprehensive of getting started with improvisation in your piano teaching? In this episode, I’ll give you 3 super easy improvisation exercise to get you started and help you make your lessons more creative.

Improvisation can be so much more than just another thing to fit into your packed lessons. In this episode, I’ll share with you how I use improvisation as a tool to teach other concepts and allow students to experience new things before labelling them.

In this episode, I’ll share the activities I do at a first lesson with a new piano student including games and improvisation. Listen in to find out more!

What type of lesson plans can you use as a music teacher? How did you get started with this stuff if you’ve never planned your lessons before? I’ll help you with all that and more in this show.