This video describes how we have maintained components of mindfulness and social support while transitioning from an in-person to an online teaching format with our beginning adult group piano students.
Music Featured: Royal Procession, Nancy & Randall Faber
Adult Piano Adventures, All-In-One Piano Course, Book 1, Dovetree Productions.
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In this lesson, we explore ways for Maddox to make his motion more fluid in Chopin’s Etude Op. 10, no. 10. He is stressed about the right hand, so we first address body positioning to increase ease of motion, and then we proceed to examine how to rethink groupings in the left hand to make leaps more fluid.
Music Featured: Frédéric Chopin – Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 10, no. 10
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Neisha started lessons in August 2016 and she is 9 years old. She completed CA Certificate of Merit Level 2 in February and is working primarily from Keith Snell’s Piano Repertoire Level 2. She recently finished Streabbog’s Pleasant Morning and Mozart’s Minuet in F Major. Current repertoire includes Schumann’s Wild Rider and LaTour’s Sonatina in C. Technique includes scales and chords in F Major and A Minor.
Music Featured: Arabesque in A Minor, Cornelius Gurlitt
Piano Repertoire: Romantic and 20th Century
Keith Snell, editor
Published by Kjos
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This video shows the introduction of a new piece in a group class online. The students work through the preparation steps as a group, practice the piece on their own, and play for the teacher to receive feedback.
Music Featured: “On Tiptoe” from Music Tree 1, Alfred
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This student just started lessons in March. We only had a few lessons before moving to online lessons. In this clip, I’m preparing him for the first piece in the method book that involves dotted half notes and triple meter. The rhythm patterns that we do in the video are in the piece, but he hasn’t seen the piece yet. I’m reviewing steady beat, bar lines, and the repeat sign. We also incorporate improvisation.
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In this video, I am introducing a new piece to a new student in his second private lesson online. He took early childhood music classes two years ago, but this is his first experience with private piano lessons, and this is my first time starting a private student exclusively online. He was very excited to see the chipmunk appear on the screen, and he enjoyed playing “Simon Says” and other games as he learned this new piece.
Music Featured: Charlie Chipmunk, Julie Knerr, Piano Safari Repertoire Book, Level 1, Piano Safari LLC 2018.
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FRANCES O. CLARK (1905-1998) is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on keyboard music education in the twentieth century. Along with Louise L. Goss, she founded the New School for Music Study, a center for music learning and teacher training in Princeton, NJ. She was the lead author of The Music Tree and the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Clavier Companion has presented some of her most relevant and timeless columns from the Clavier magazine series “Questions and Answers.” The entire series was compiled in the book Questions and Answers, published by The Frances Clark Center and available on Amazon.
ELVINA PEARCE studied piano with Isabelle Vengerova and pedagogy with Frances Clark. She was a founding faculty member of the New School for Music Study, one of the founders of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, and Editor-in-Chief of Keyboard Companion magazine from 2000-2006. For fourteen years, she taught piano and pedagogy at Northwestern University. In 2008 she was named by MTNA as a Foundation Fellow, and, in 2011, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She has presented workshops and recitals in more than forty states as well as in Canada, the Republic of China, and Australia. Her concert career is highlighted by a performance of the Liszt E-Flat Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall. A nationally recognized author and composer of educational piano music, Elvina resides in the Chicago suburb of Naperville with her rescue dog Jessie, a three-legged, miniature Australian Shepherd.
At The New School for Music Study, founders Frances Clark and Louise Goss created a tradition of training teachers through recorded classes and lectures. This video, among countless others, represents our inheritance from that legacy.
ELVINA PEARCE studied piano with Isabelle Vengerova and pedagogy with Frances Clark. She was a founding faculty member of the New School for Music Study, one of the founders of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy, and Editor-in-Chief of Keyboard Companion magazine from 2000-2006. For fourteen years, she taught piano and pedagogy at Northwestern University. In 2008 she was named by MTNA as a Foundation Fellow, and, in 2011, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. She has presented workshops and recitals in more than forty states as well as in Canada, the Republic of China, and Australia. Her concert career is highlighted by a performance of the Liszt E-Flat Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall. A nationally recognized author and composer of educational piano music, Elvina resides in the Chicago suburb of Naperville with her rescue dog Jessie, a three-legged, miniature Australian Shepherd.
FRANCES O. CLARK (1905-1998) is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on keyboard music education in the twentieth century. Along with Louise L. Goss, she founded the New School for Music Study, a center for music learning and teacher training in Princeton, NJ. She was the lead author of The Music Tree and the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Clavier Companion has presented some of her most relevant and timeless columns from the Clavier magazine series “Questions and Answers.” The entire series was compiled in the book Questions and Answers, published by The Frances Clark Center and available on Amazon.
FRANCES O. CLARK (1905-1998) is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on keyboard music education in the twentieth century. Along with Louise L. Goss, she founded the New School for Music Study, a center for music learning and teacher training in Princeton, NJ. She was the lead author of The Music Tree and the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Clavier Companion has presented some of her most relevant and timeless columns from the Clavier magazine series “Questions and Answers.” The entire series was compiled in the book Questions and Answers, published by The Frances Clark Center and available on Amazon.
FRANCES O. CLARK (1905-1998) is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on keyboard music education in the twentieth century. Along with Louise L. Goss, she founded the New School for Music Study, a center for music learning and teacher training in Princeton, NJ. She was the lead author of The Music Tree and the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Clavier Companion has presented some of her most relevant and timeless columns from the Clavier magazine series “Questions and Answers.” The entire series was compiled in the book Questions and Answers, published by The Frances Clark Center and available on Amazon.
Learn the basics of uploading videos to YouTube. Presented by Michael Clark.
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