Category: Music Motivation
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Building Better Music Practice Habits: Lessons from TMTA 2025 I just returned from the Texas Music Teachers Association Conference, and my mind is bursting with new ideas for the studio! One key takeaway I want to share today is a concept I knew—but saw in a brand-new light during one session: the Practice Triangle. This…
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Love songs have a special place in music, evoking deep emotions and creating memorable moments. If you’re a beginner pianist looking for romantic tunes to play, here are five beautiful yet simple love songs that will impress your audience and warm hearts. 1. “Can’t Help Falling in Love” – Elvis Presley This timeless classic is…
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I’m going to start a series of blog posts this month to help students of all ages with some tools that I’ve learned as a student and as a teacher to help in practicing. The reality is, no one likes practicing, but the only way that improvement comes is through spending time with the instrument…
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There are plenty of things necessary to master the piano, but here’s my 5 tips to master the piano. Learn how to practice correctly. What? Well, as I tell students, practice isn’t just “playing through” the song 5 or 10 times. Practice is figuring out where the trouble spots are and working them out…
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One of the biggest joys I get out of teaching is never knowing what students will say at their lessons. In introducing the concept of a dotted quarter note to eighth note rhythm, I explain to this wonderful student that when we get to eighth notes, we cut them in half. And so the conversation…
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There are lots and lots of benefits as to why children should take music lessons. Here are just a few. Music builds coordination When it comes to piano, or really any musical instrument, it’s building hand-eye coordination, using the dominant and non-dominant hand, and in the case of the piano, can have different motions for…
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Sarah Dessen is an American author who lives in North Carolina. This quote is extremely powerful and true! Music brings about unity. Not only for those performing, whether that is in an ensemble, or a soloist being accompanied, the musicians have to be united on tempo (speed of the music) and much more to make…