Keyboard Companion Spring 2000; Vol. 11, No. 1
Keyboard Companion Spring 2000; Vol. 11, No. 1
view flipbook Page numbers refer to FlipBook pages and not the printed pages in the magazine. Page 5: The Editor’s Page Richard Chronister Page 6: Teacher/Student/Parent What do you do with a student who hates to play the piano? Barbara Kreader Page 10: Home Practice...
Do You Use Summer Lessons for Special Reading Activities?
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question We would like to thank Richard Chronister, Mary Ann Letti, and Berdine Ehrman for this insightful article on summer reading activities. To read the full article, click here. Both writers for this issue’s Music Reading Department take the...
Independence Day: Why Do You Teach the Five-Finger Pattern or Multi-Key Approach to Reading?
Keyboard Companion Summer 1992; Vol. 3, No. 2
Richard Chronister, Editor By Richard Chronister In this issue, we explore another of the three basic approaches to beginning reading—the Five-Finger Pattern or Multi-Key approach. (In the Winter 1991 issue, teachers discussed why they use the Whole Keyboard approach and in a future issue we...
The Editor’s Page: Joy Carden’s Life-Surprises
Keyboard Companion Summer 1992; Vol. 3, No. 2
The Editor’s Page: Joy Carden’s Life-Surprises Joy Carden is a piano teacher who believes that embracing life’s surprises makes us able to do things we never dreamed we could do, or even more important, introduces us to things we have yet to even dream about....
How Do You Ensure Musical Experiences in Early-Level Lessons?
Keyboard Companion Winter 1991; Vol. 2, No. 4
Joyce Cameron, Editor Fostering the joy of music-making is of key importance to many, if not all, piano teachers. Yet, we all know the myriad challenges involved in developing the skills to read the notation and the technique to produce the desired sounds. At times,...
Why Do You Use the Whole-Keyboard Approach to Beginning Reading?
Keyboard Companion Winter 1991; Vol. 2, No. 4
Richard Chronister, Editor There have always been teachers who recognize the importance of allowing beginning piano students to explore the entire keyboard; rote teaching of pieces the student couldn’t possibly read from the Grand Staff is nothing new. But, historically, it is a fairly recent...
Do You Have Special Ways to Teach Reading to Students With Exceptional Ears?
Keyboard Companion Autumn 1991; Vol. 2, No. 3
Richard Chronister, Editor In this issue, we deal with those students whose ears are more—developed than their eyes—in the area of music, at least. For them, it’s too often easier to hunt and peck until they hear the “right” note than it is to read...
Do You Use Summer Lessons for Special Reading Activities?
Keyboard Companion Summer 1991; Vol. 2, No. 2
Richard Chronister, Editor Both writers for this issue’s Music Reading Department take the view that summer is special for piano students. A good case can be made for discontinuing the regular curriculum and making sure that summer study is something that makes the coming autumn...
Where Should Reading Come in the Beginner’s Curriculum?
Keyboard Companion Spring 1991; Vol. 2, No. 1
Richard Chronister, Editor The best way to teach piano students to read will probably always be a hotly debated item, and we will continue to explore that subject in this department of KEYBOARD COMPANION. Another controversial subject in this area is the one we deal...
Elementary graduation exercises
Keyboard Companion Winter 2005; Vol. 16, No. 4
Scott McBride Smith, Editor I used to tell Richard Chronister, half-jokingly, “I’m your oldest disciple.” From my vantage point, it was true. I had first heard him speak when I was an 18-year old college freshman, already a three-year veteran in the piano teaching trenches...
Is There More to Reading than Reading Pieces?
On the piano pedagogy lecture circuit and in all the places that pedagogy experts write about the subject of reading, one of the most often-heard statements is, “You learn to read by reading.” When I hear those words, I always wait to hear something like, “But with most students there are times when it is necessary...
How Do You Teach Fluent Rhythm Reading?
When piano teachers talk about music reading, we tend to think only of note reading. In fact, the questions we have posed for this department of KEYBOARD COMPANION have concentrated on just that one aspect of reading. Likewise, students seem to give note reading first...
The Editor’s Page
The fascinating art work on the cover of this issue is by artist Amy Stewart who lives in Dallas, Texas. This Escher-inspired design involving the treble and bass clefs came naturally to Amy, the daughter of former piano teacher Mary Ann Stewart who is now...
How Do You Prepare Students for the Reading Traps in a Piece?
Keyboard Companion Summer 1995; Vol. 6, no. 2
Whenever we hear a new piece of teaching music that attracts our attention, and think of exactly the student who will enjoy playing it, we are apt to wonder if it has one or more of those traps that have cost us countless, precious minutes...
When Choosing an Elementary Method, What Do You Look For in the Area of Note Reading?
Keyboard Companion Summer 1994; Vol. 5, No. 2
One of our writers says, “Our country must lead the world in proliferation of elementary method books.” Some teachers swear by their favorite method and have been teaching it for years. Others try every new method that comes on the market, always looking for something...