Learn this beautiful Japanese song with the steps below to develop your musicianship skills. Tsuki Performance Watch this beautiful performance of Tsuki: Learn Tsuki It’s such a beautiful song. It’s one of my favourites and the above video is such a gorgeous arrangement. I’ll teach it to you now. Below is the Japanese version and […]
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In this post I’ll give you take you through an approach to teaching the intervals in the pentatonic scale.
Pentatonic Intervals Read More »
Sleeping a in Stable I’d like to tell you a sad story about my composition, Sleeping a in Stable… with a happy ending! I wrote Sleeping in a Stable for a school nativity and the brief was they needed something for them to sing in the stable part of the nativity. The school later said they’d forgotten
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I LOVE Goblins are Around Tonight which appears in David Vinden’s Songs for Singing and Musicianship. I changed the lyrics to make them cute and Christmassy. I found that my students really took to the Winter Elves. I showed them pictures of different winter elves and they had to choose which elves they thought this
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We’re going to explore an English folk song and use it to help our students discover new elements.
I think Hi Lo Chikalo is great for presenting low so and low la. Below, I’ll show you how I do it and some ideas for practising low so and la with other songs.
Going lo… teaching low so and la Read More »
This blog will explore what it means to prepare our students aurally, physically and visually with practical suggestions for activities
Preparing Pitch: How to prepare pitch and practical ideas Read More »
Do you have to jump in at the deep end when teaching the piano using the Kodály Approach?
Four Depths of Kodály Piano Teaching Read More »
When teaching piano beginners we need to remember that the skills we want them to master in the future need seeding from the start.
7 Ways to Encourage Arm Movement in Kodály Piano Lessons Read More »
“When will they do their Grade 1?” I think we all recognise this question and we all dread it. But what happens when you’re a Kodály Piano Teacher? You might be surprised! I certainly was.
When Will They Do Grade 1? No Worries for Kodály Piano Teachers Read More »