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I was delighted to join Rachel Ehring on Episode 128 of her Top Music Piano Podcast to discuss all kinds of back-to-school favorites, from

A piano teacher can never have too many repertoire recommendations, right?! In my ongoing quest for just the right music for each student to accompany our practice incentive theme this year, I came across this fabulous collection of dozens of

In brainstorming and preparing and gathering piano music for this year’s practice incentive theme, I’ve unearthed some amazing resources that I’d never come across before. One treasure trove is this page of Free Piano Stuff on composer

I’ve been doing a ton of repertoire brainstorming and searching over the summer to find engaging music written in every key (which may or may not have something to do with our upcoming practice incentive theme…). It’s been exciting to play through l...

It usually happens in the last ten minutes of a music lesson.

You’ve just finished a rhythm exercise that took careful explanation, a bit of clapping, a retry, and finally some progress. The room is just starting to shift. A few students are packing away early. Someone asks, ‘What are we doing next?’

And instead of defaulting to another worksheet or repeating th...