Category: Practice
Piano Maestro: A Parent’s Guide
It will be fun watching your child improve their piano skills all while having fun using Piano Maestro in lessons each week! As your child’s teacher (or YOUR teacher!), I’m looking forward to seeing the progress they will make when they start using it at home each day. This guide will help you understand how this app will […]
Technic Series: Scales and Arpeggios
PDF Article on Scales and Arpeggios In music, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. An arpeggio (it. /arˈpeddʒo/) is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than being played together like a chord. This word […]
Hanon Piano Exercises
Most anyone who has ever played piano has a love-hate relationship with the “Hanon”. The Virtuoso Pianist (Le Pianiste virtuose) by Charles-Louis Hanon, is a compilation of sixty exercises meant to train the pianist in speed, precision, agility, and strength of all of the fingers and flexibility in the wrists. First published in Boulogne, in […]
Today is a Snow Day!
No lessons today due to the snowy weather. Keep practicing! Those using Piano Maestro and/or Sproutbeat may find a new assignment for today 🙂
Day Eight ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 8. The Timekeeper: Some of the O’Connor Music Studio students are using Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests For Piano, […]
Day Seven ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 7. The Concert Promoter: As a parent myself, I know that showing off our kids comes naturally. For this reason, proactive parents […]
Day Six ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 6. The Piano Studio Janitor: Parents are the ultimate, and original, janitors. While it is important that students learn to organize their own […]
Piano Maestro Disney Week 4
t’s not too late to have your students take part in this magical adventure and play the Disney themed song special! “Let It Go” from ‘Frozen’ is the last Disney song for your students to play in this special challenge (don’t worry we’ll add more Disney songs soon).
Day Five ~ Parents! How to Help Your Students Practice
We have established that regular practice routines will not happen without proactive piano parents. So, how can parents be proactive practice assistants even if they have never touched a piano? Day 5. The Youtube Liaison: As students get older, it can get harder for piano parents to be active in the home practice process. […]