If you teach music to young students, you know that one of the first steps of reading notation is knowledge of note values (quarter notes, eighth notes, etc.) In this blog post, I am sharing 5 activities for teaching note values that you can use in your piano studio (or general music class!). The first… Continue reading Note value activities
Tag: play-based learning
Why you should let your piano students use playdough in their lessons
Hear me out... there's a benefit to kids using playdough in their piano lessons. When I first started piano teaching, I was so careful to do everything "by the book". Literally, only using method pages to teach. I don't know if any of you can relate, but as I met many more new students over… Continue reading Why you should let your piano students use playdough in their lessons
