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Day 133: learning from family time
A few things I (you?) can learn from my family and apply to my (your?) work: 1. For the most part, the louder and messier we are, the more fun we are having. 2. When we are feeling...
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Day 154: YOU CAN DO IT
I have a new piano student, a young girl who has studied piano for 3 years. She has bounced from teacher to teacher, each one telling her that since she “couldn’t” play 2 or 3 notes at a time, she...
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Day 169: middle of nowhere
Go to the middle of nowhere. Or at least to a coffee shop. Hear me out. Music festivals are usually in the middle of nowhere. Not the few festivals that are centered around gigantic venues, but the...
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Day 192: the reluctant learner
The reluctant learner: maybe it’s you- you’re in a slump but you have work to get done (& why does the work never get in a slump??? What is that about?? Not fair.). Maybe it’s your child… there is...
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Day 206: working through “wrong”
Before stuff is right, it is wrong. But wrong is good, because it is informative and helpful. Wrong represents growth, if we listen to it. My student Janna is working on the earliest steps of vibrato....
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Day 213: what REALLY takes 20 minutes
I work best in short, intense segments of time. My favorite is 20 minutes. I separate these with 5 minutes of doing something non-musical, like washing a few dishes. It makes the segments more potent....
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Day 225: LIVID.
It started out that I was sympathetic and worried for a student – let’s call her Lisa. A sweet kid that I’ve taught for a good while, Lisa is quiet, earnest, hard working, and respectful. I cite in...
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Day 267: practice to teach
The teaching of something is the absolute knowledge of it. Those of us who are teachers play best the works/concepts/people/ideas that we have taught to others. Practice is the art of teaching oneself....
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