Book Review: Every Good Boy Does Fine by Jeremy Denk
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Book reviews in each issue of the Piano Magazine provide readers with a sneak peek inside the latest publications on piano teaching, performing, and learning. The Autumn 2022 Piano Magazine review of Every Good Boy Does Fine...
Let’s Play: 32 Piano Games by Ross Lee Finney
Summer 2022; Vol. 14, No. 2
32 Piano Games by Ross Lee Finney (1906–1997) is a collection of short pieces that introduces contemporary music to beginning and intermediate students. Each “game” focuses on a modern pianistic technique or compositional style and provides an excellent introduction to contemporary music. Ross Lee Finney,...
Teaching Contemporary Piano Techniques to Intermediate Piano Students with Alexina Louie’s Star Light, Star Bright
Winter 2022; Vol. 13, No. 4
Introducing intermediate piano students to twentieth-and twenty-first-century compositional techniques and styles is essential, especially as we move from Gen Z students to those in Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s). In Star Light, Star Bright (1995),1 both generations will find an established, musically rich collection...
COVID-19 Special Issue
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
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Quick Teaching Tips: Uploading Videos to YouTube
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Learn the basics of uploading videos to YouTube. Presented by Michael Clark.
Supporting Our Students Who Are At Risk
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
I run music programs that serve the underserved. Specifically, through OpporTUNEity® Music, I lead community-based music programs that engage undergraduate music students through the design and delivery of curriculum and instruction to children living in poverty. As a program that relies heavily on institutional resources...
Physical Health and Wellness Considerations For Online Teaching
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
The need to shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the way music instructors interact with their students. Most teachers now rely on various technologies to facilitate remote instruction for lessons and group classes. While this shift is essential to slow the spread of...
Mental and Emotional Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
The recent global pandemic has generated a mental health crisis in our culture. Although experts will not fully comprehend the psychological effects of COVID-19 for many years, millions of people around the world are currently experiencing the repercussions. The complex emotions associated with the coronavirus...
Quick Teaching Tips – The Basics of Using Zoom
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
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Teaching Advanced Students in Uncertain Times
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Over the course of a few days in mid-March, the University of Colorado (CU), as many schools, quickly and suddenly transitioned to distance learning. All students who were able were asked to move home. All face-to-face engagements, including classes, private lessons, and committee meetings would move...
Teaching Via Video: How to Still be “YOU!”
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
Our New World Our current pandemic has us all teaching in new ways. I have long thought of online learning as an opportunity, a way to indulge in creativity. It represents, however, a significant challenge when it becomes forced upon us in times of global strife. We...
Class Piano and COVID-19
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
In this unprecedented time of uncertainty around COVID-19, class piano instructors are faced with the daunting task of moving instruction online. This task is made even more difficult with students in locations without access to a piano or keyboard. It is important to organize yourself and your students...
Tools for Group Piano Online
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
The advent of COVID-19 has forced teachers to move group piano instruction online. While the online medium is not ideal to teach performance skills, there is a silver lining. Online learning does present many benefits; chief among them is the great degree of flexibility it...
Striving for Excellence in Online Piano Pedagogy: Characteristics of Expert Teachers Using the Video-Conferencing Format
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
During a recent tour at the Bell Homestead in my home- town of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, I came across an interesting fact. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell set up a demonstration of his new invention, the telephone. He arranged for friends to play a melodeon and sing...
The New Normal of Piano Teaching
COVID-19 Special Issue; Vol. 12, No. 2
All of us have spent the last several weeks adapting to the reality of a world where the COVID-19 pandemic has acutely changed nearly every part of our lives. For many piano teachers, it has been a time of sink-or-swim adaptation. Our teaching spaces are now more like broadcast studios than piano studios as FaceTime, Skype, WeChat, or Zoom now replace the untrampled welcome mat...