100 Hymns for Good Friday
As we move into Easter week, church musicians are busy preparing for special services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and of course, Easter …
Three Ways to Use a Storybook During Piano Lessons
I often teach piano to very young students, and I have a variety of teaching tools to help me with that task. Out of my …
The Top Ten List of Encouraging Hymns for the New Year
2024 is now well underway. It’s been a rough start to the new year for me personally. If you’re in that boat as well then …
Five Things I Always Keep in My Music Teaching Bag
What should a music teacher have in his or her teaching bag (or desk, or studio, or whatever you use to hold your teaching tools …
Ingredients of Music: Notes and Rests
Welcome to the second installment of our series on music theory basics, Ingredients of Music. In the first post, we talked about why the study …
Ingredients of Music: Why Music Theory Matters
My piano teacher loved music theory. I mean, REALLY loved it. He actually had previously taught theory at the college level, and he walked through …