5 Essential Questions Before Teaching Older Students with the Kodály Approach
Whether it's in a piano or other instrumental lesson, a singing lesson or in a class setting, this topic crops up all the time.
Author: Helen Russell
What can I do if my students won’t sing?
My experiences and advice on how to deal with this in classroom music lessons, one-to-one piano lessons and also unbelievably in private singing lesso…
How to succeed with no budget for musical instruments
Are you Music Lead at your school? Maybe you have a cupboard of old musical instruments. Or maybe nothing. But you certainly don’t have the…
Don’t wait! Participate! – Effective learning in shared piano lessons
One of the wonderful things about music is that it connects people. However learning piano can be a solitary endeavour with fewer opportunities for ensemble…
Gunggari Maranoa Lullaby – a do pentatonic song
Last week one of my Doremi Teach: Piano teachers asked me for ideas of pieces in triple metre and I was reminded of this beautiful…
A Wintery Song for Young Musicians this Christmas
Jump straight to the download Hot pork rolls, hot chocolate and crêpes, that’s what kicks off Christmas for me. Yesterday my sons’ school had a…
Helen’s most popular song for Kodály-inspired piano and music lessons
One of my students asked me the other day which of the songs from Doremi Piano is my favourite. I didn’t have to think very…
Valuing Yourself – Conquer Imposter Syndrome Because Money Matters
What is it about us teachers? We never seem to be able to value ourselves. We take our super-powers for granted and then sell ourselves…
The easiest and quickest way to excellent rhythm skills
Do you want to improve your students’ rhythm skills? Whether you’re a music teacher, instrumental or vocal teacher, Kodály musicianship teacher or a class teacher…