Memorising Kodály Music & Piano Lesson Plans
Do you memorise your lesson plans for piano lessons or music classes?
So many of us feel we need to memorise our lesson plans. Here are my reflections…
Category: Music Teaching
Which Solfa to Start with in Kodály Music Lessons
So know you want to teach using solfa, and you know that throwing them into the full diatonic scale is not the best way. But which subset of the tones…
4 Differences of Kodály Music Lessons and Piano Lessons
Do you teach classroom music and private instrumental lessons using the Kodály approach? Here are my four top differences between these teaching sett…
How to start planning your Kodály Music Curriculum
Do you want or need to create a singing based curriculum for your school, class or club? Maybe you’ve done some Kodály training but have been left …
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.
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…
Versatile Repertoire for Kodály Piano Teaching
I’ll admit I can be pretty ungrateful when it comes to gifts! Especially toys for my kids. Every January my house is full of flashy…
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…