Q+A Ep 10 Maintaining Enthusiasm & How to Play Effortlessly
Show Notes Below
Interviews in full with Penelope Roskell & Sally Cathcart
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In the week's episode, we give our live audience a chance to ask questions. We want to give you the same opportunity to have your say... Just type into the box below and let us know your greatest challenge in teaching piano with a piano lesson structure.
Overview: Episode 10
Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this week's show. There were some deep dives into topics this week. (timings of the broadcast):
00:00 Welcome to our guests
01:10 A look at each of the panel members' set up Sally Cathcart, Nicola Cantan & Penelope Roskell
12:00 Q: I have an 11 year old beginner who I have introduced to Get Set Piano alongside Piano Safari pieces and techniques, rhythm, notation and sightreading card games. He loves it all! Every week he returns online he is well-practiced and perfected pieces I have given him. We are coming to the end of book 1 and I wondered if moving onto Get Set book 2 is just going to be too easy and worried he will lose interest. Could you suggest a pathway I could go down to maintain his interest and enthusiasm , please?
16:34 Musicianship and a musician's skill set video:
Do you have students around Grade 1 or late elementary level? In this episode we included a free piano resources video teaching guide of how to teach Theme by Thomas Attwood using Whole Body Learning strategies. We've created a unit of work in the Piano Teaching Success Facebook Group so you'll always have access to the guides. Not in the Facebook group, join now. Also we've created a Teaching Pack with studio licensed sheet music, lead sheets with lyrics, interactive multi-speed backing tracks and a heap of other downloadables for just £3/€3.5/US$4/AU$5 (we understand you want to pay in your own currency, we do too!)
21:45 Q: I would like to know what sort of games/activities teachers are using to help engage the students. I’ve been using clap-backs and playbacks (keeping it nice and simple, like always starting on middle C and they play back) I was wondering if there was anything else that doesn’t require me being able to use the fancy features on the computer to play with.
28:07 Q: I dont teach for exams but I do want my students to have a good technique. I’m worried that teaching scales, exercises and studies will be too boring, they won't practice and will lose interest. What do you suggest?
31:45 Interview with Penelope Roskell on common technical issues that can be easily fixed.
37:30 Q: How to get students to curl their fingers. HealthyPianoPlaying.co.uk
Penelope Roskell's book is available in the UK with a 15% discount & free postage in the UK from Blackrock Music UK and in Australia you can get 20% from Blackrock Music Australia (the LIVE show caused the book to sell out in Australia, but you can put it on back order) use the coupon code: QANDA
44:00 Q: When it comes to piano teaching, what is your single greatest challenge - please let us know so that we can
45:50 Free online teaching resource Brag Tags get them here.
48:00 Q: My students often get to a certain point and just don't move forward. What can I do?
51:32 Sally shares about developing musicians and her books that help this.
54:20 Sally chats to Paul about her inspiration about her books. You can get Sally's books
56:04 Great gifts and offers from our panel:
1 month free from the Curious Piano Teachers: https://www.thecuriouspianoteachers.org/
$1 for a 1 week trial with Nicola Cantan's Vibrant Music Teachers
59:10 The panel next week: Bradley Sowash, Melody Deng & Brad Eustace
60:00 Beautiful and effortless playing of Penelope Roskell as she shows us what healthy piano playing looks and sounds with a snippet of the Chopin Ballade no.3 in Ab major.
