Page 5: The Editor’s Page
Hello old friend …
Pete Jutras
Page 6: Keyboard Companion News
Page 6: On the Cover
Page 8: Summer Institutes
Page 10: Jazz & Pop
Taking you from “I Can’t Get Started” to “Easy Melodies”: Jazz teaching tips and resources
Tony Caramia
Page 20: Music Reading
How much in-lesson assistance do you give students in learning new repertoire?
Craig Sale with Susan Osborn and Mary Brostrom Bloom
Page 28: Technique
Is fingering an important part of technique?
Scott McBride Smith with Paul Wirth
Page 36: Rhythm
How do you get students to really play the rests in their pieces?
Bruce Berr
Page 42: Perspectives in Pedagogy
How did your pedagogy degree best prepare you for your current teaching situation? How could it have prepared you better?
Rebecca Johnson with Chad Baker, Amber Redoutey, and Kathy Winston Rabago
Page 46: Adult Piano Study
The Third-Age Piano Class: Challenge, fun, and satisfaction for mature students of the piano
Michelle Conda with Jacqueline S. Wright
Page 48: Repertoire & Performance
What are your favorite “pre-impressionistic” pieces to help students develop color and imagery and to prepare for the music of Debussy and Ravel?
Nancy Bachus with Joyce Scheel, Kelly Marquis Freije, and Bernadine Johnson
Page 54: Technology
What have you done to improve your personal technology skills?
George Litterst with Kathy Maskell, Michelle Gordon, and Sam Ecoff
Page 58: Tech Tips
Page 60: News & Views
What was that teacher thinking allowing a student to perform like that?
Helen Smith Tarchalski with Joselyn Cross Makawski
