Q+A Ep 23 Tenacity, Lockdowns, Duets & Wonderful Composers

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From Pam Wedgewood, Alison Mathews and Paul Myatt

Show Notes

Overview: Episode 23

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this week's show. There were many deep dives into topics this week . (timings of the broadcast):

0:00 Welcome to our panelists, Pam Wedgewood, Alison Mathews & Ruth Alberici

14:00 Pam talks about tenacity 

19:00 Pam's favorite piece & how Paul teaches "Garage Sale" from AMEB Piano for Leisure Grade 1

24:00 Ruth discusses alternate ways to help students understand how to play new material when teaching online

27:00 Alison gives her tips when piano teaching online; annotations, using music stand, organisation, teaching rhythm to beginners

29:00 Michelle asks about alternate ways to helping students understand how to play new piano material when online.

31:00 Paul’s shares some Whole Body Learning teaching strategies that help make teaching online more successful. He shares some music teaching courses from the new Whole Body Learning for ABRSM 2021 Grade 1

37:00 Ruth shares how she and her colleague Gwen help teachers to help teachers. Take a tour of their MyMusicResources.com website.

43:00 Ruth shares her story about transitioning from corporate to piano teaching and how much she loves it.

Ruth's free resource. The Elf's Workshop is available free till 30 November 2020. Get that here.

50:00 Paul & Alison discuss Alison's work and how she introduces duet playing with her students
Alison's music for sale
Black Rock Music Australia
Black Rock Music UK

56:00 What is Alison's solution for students not used to collaboration and find it distracting? Alison also discusses what how she teaches online for duet playing

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