Shared Teaching Tips
Over the years, like many teachers, I have found certain things to work really well, ideas that solve problems, solutions to helping pupils with technique, general musicianship, improvisation, develop aural skills and the “dreaded sight reading”! I thought it would be nice to share some of those ideas here, as the pooling of ideas can only but enhance piano teaching as a whole.
Innovative way to teach the reading of notation
This page shares my ideas of teaching beginners to develop good reading principals, a real understanding of what they are doing and at the same time, musicianship skills, by way of actually avoiding the conventional way of teaching reading by “one new note at a time.” Plenty of details can be found on the page!
Opening the door to improvisation
This is a fascinating subject, and there are plenty of thoughts and ideas here to help begin “unlocking the door to improvisation”.
