Jazz & Pop Dept: Taking you from “I Can’t Get Started” to “Easy Melodies”: Jazz Teaching Tips and Resources
Audio Clips, Music Excerpts: Spring 2007
Rhthym Dept: “How do you get students to really play the rests in their pieces?”
Audio Clips, Music Excerpts: Spring 2007
Adult Piano Study Dept: The Third-Age Piano Class: Challenge, Fun, and Satisfaction for Mature Students of the Piano
Video and photographs: Spring 2007
Adult Piano Study Dept: "What is the buzz about the Oakton Six Piano Ensemble?"
Video and audio clips, addditional photographs: Autumn 2006
Music Reading Dept: "How does teaching music-reading differ from teaching sight-reading?"
Photographs: Autumn 2006
Home Practice Dept: "The Schumann "Romance in F#, Op. 28, No. 2" - its evolution from workout to artistic performance."
Audio clips: Summer 2006
Perspectives in Pedagogy Dept: "What experiences in your background influenced your decision to compete in the Van Cliburn Competition for Outstanding Amateurs?" - Part Two
Audio clips: Spring 2006
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the rhythm challenges of the Chopin "Prelude in E Minor?"
Audio clips: Winter 2005
Perspectives in Pedagogy Dept: "What experiences in your background influenced your decision to compete in the Van Cliburn Competition for Outstanding Amateurs?"
Audio and video clips, additional photographs: Winter 2005
Music Reading Dept: "What steps do you assign for the process of sight-reading?"
Photographs: Winter 2005
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the rhythm of 'Moonlight Mood' from William Gillock's Lyric Preludes?"
Audio clips: Autumn 2005
Adult Piano Study Dept: "How has your adult teaching changed since you first started teaching adults?"
Photographs: Autumn 2005
Adult Piano Study Dept: "Do you cross the line between professional and personal when teaching your adult students?"
Photographs: Summer 2005
Adult Piano Study Dept: "'Lucy Tells All' - A report on an adult learning presentation at the 2003 NCKP"
Audio and video clips: Spring 2005
Teacher/Student/Parent Dept: "What special qualities do parents of children who succeed at the piano share?" Part Three.
Audio clips and additional text: Spring 2005
Rhythm Dept: "How has playing another instrument affected your teaching of rhythm at the piano?"
Video clips: Spring 2005
Teacher/Student/Parent Dept: "What special qualities do parents of children who succeed at the piano share?" Part Two.
Audio clips: Winter 2004
Rhythm Dept: "What is "Shakespearean Counting" and how do you use it in your teaching?"
Video and audio clips, photographs: Winter 2004
Adult Piano Study Dept: "What do you do to promote learning outside of the piano lessons?"
Additional text: Winter 2004
Rhythm Dept: "How do you help your students achieve rhythmic continuity in slow pieces without sounding mechanical?"
Audio clips: Autumn 2004
Rhythm Dept: "How does teaching in small groups help students' rhythmic development?"
Video and audio clips: Summer 2004
Rhythm Dept: "How is rhythm enhanced by solid technique skills?"
Video clips: Spring 2004
Rhythm Dept: "How are timing and rhythm different from one another?"
Video and audio clips. Winter 2003
Rhythm Dept: "How does learning jazz enhance a person's rhythm?" Part II
Audio clips. Spring 2003
Rhythm Dept: "How does learning jazz enhance a person's rhythm?" Part I
Audio clips. Winter 2002
News & Views Dept: "How do you incorporate music history into your lessons?"
Video clips. Autumn 2002
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the larger musical beat to elementary students?"
Audio clips. Autumn 2002
Perspectives in Pedagogy Dept: "What teacher was most influential in your teaching career and why?"
Audio clips. Summer 2002
Technology Dept: "What can you accomplish with your students using a new technology that you could not accomplish previously?"
Audio clips. Summer 2002
Repertoire Dept: "What are your students' favorite recital pieces?"
Audio clips. Spring 2002
Rhythm Dept: "What are some rhythmic pieces you like to teach and why?"
Audio clips. Spring 2002
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach can tabile playing? How does it affect students' rhythm?"
Audio clips. Autumn 2001
News & Views Dept: "How different is modern music?"
Audio clips. Summer 2001
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the written-in improvisatory gestures in repertoire?"
Audio clips. Summer 2001
Repertoire Dept: "What pieces have you written that you consider preparation for style?"
Audio clips. Summer 2001
Music Reading Dept: "How do you teach theory so that it enhances your students' reading skills?"
Photographs. Summer 2001
Technology Dept: "What is a 'CD burner' and why does my studio need one?"
Audio clips. Spring 2001
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach dance rhythms to early-level students?"
Video and audio clips. Spring 2001
Rhythm Dept: "When and how do you introduce rubato?"
Audio clips. Autumn 2000
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the rhythm challenges in Beethoven's Sonata in G, Op. 49, #2, 1st movement?"
Audio clips. Spring 2000
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the difference between counting rhythm and musical rhythm?"
Audio clips: Winter 1999
Rhythm Dept: Rhythm Diary
Video & audio clips: Winter 1999
Rhythm Dept: "Teaching skills: What does PATIENCE & PERSISTENCE have to do with it?"
Video clips: Autumn 1999
Rhythm Dept: "How do you teach the rhythm challenge in Grieg's Nocturne, Op. 54, No. 4?"
Audio & MIDI clips: Summer 1999
Rhythm Dept: "What are some effective ways to teach eighth notes?"
Video clips: Spring 1999
Rhythm Dept: "How is rhythm taught in the other arts?"
Video clips: Winter 1998
Rhythm Dept: "When do you have your students STOP counting out loud?"
Audio clips: Autumn 1998
Rhythm Dept: "How is your teaching of rhythm affected by your own earliest rhythm learning?"
Video & audio clips: Summer 1998
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