
When You Fall In Love (With Making Music)
For those in their teen years, music can be an important emotional outlet

Students Teaching Teachers
Learning is not a one-way street. Teachers teach students, but students also teach teachers. I was reminded of that recently while...

Judge As Thou Would Be Judged (Music Festivals)
I recently helped run a local music festival/audition for area music students K-12 grades. Some Festivals and Auditions are very serious...

The Music Machine (The Piano Is)
One of the sweetest gifts a student gave me years ago was a poem she had a written for an English class titled "The Music Machine." It...

Learning To Play Songs, or To Be a Musician?
Learning by rote versus learning musical skills such as reading music, technical skills, understanding styles.

My "Practice" Story
At the age of eight, I started piano lessons with great enthusiasm. My parents had an old upright cabinet grand (I am talking HUGE)...

Should You MAKE Your Child Practice?
I met a very successful doctor at a party who said to me, when he discovered I teach piano, "I don't believe in MAKING my children do...

The Battle of the Boards
Keyboards, that is. Or more specifically, keyboards versus acoustic pianos. "What should I buy when I take piano lessons?" I have been...