Noise
There is a lot of noise on the Internet… Buy this piano book! Check out this new method! Watch this video! Try this app! Visit this new website! Try this new game! Read this article! Do you have an incentive program? What do you use for billing your students? Are you attending the next […]
Scheduling
Preparing for a new semester never gets old! It can cause a little stress and I can get frustrated trying to work with everyone’s schedule, but there are several things that helped make it easier this year. Online Scheduling – there are many services that allow the families to check your studio calendar via the internet and choose […]
Musikgarten
A few years ago Musikgarten (http://www.musikgarten.org/teacher_grouppiano.cfm) was my textbook. I learned a great deal about group piano and still use many of their ideas in my teaching. This blog post is one I shared back in 2008 on missdorla.com. The Musikgarten teacher training is thorough and in depth. This is not an open and […]
Group Piano for Adults
I am terrible at advertising my studio. Ter. ri. ble. Needless to say I rely heavily on word of mouth. I know I should have done more to fill my new adult class – but I was out of ideas and mostly out of money for advertising. So after flyers at the recital, emails to […]
Group Piano for Preschoolers
It is not hard to find a preschool music program to implement in your studio. However you might have greater difficulty finding one that is geared specifically towards learning to play the piano. For many years I used different curricula and always felt that I was spending a lot of time adding a piano component to […]