Q+A Ep 27 How to Make Practice Fun

Show Notes

EPISODE 27: The Back-to-School Special

00:00 Welcome to the back-to-school special.

01:18 Paul and Gillian discuss the 3 main challenges for practice and introduce some piano method to solve these issues. 

04:35 Using backing tracks to help to solve practice problems, including how they can help beginners, online piano teachers and build intrinsic motivation.

10:50 How to beat the boredom of practice through game-based learning and off the bench movement activities to learn piano sight reading 

15:47 How Practise Buddy by Piano Teaching Success came to life, through frustrations that Paul and Gillian have experienced in their teaching and to improve sight reading piano.

17:20 How to teach Broken Chords

22:35 How to teach chords and progressing into lead sheets

27:04 Lead sheet starter pack, which you can buy here from Blackrock Music Shop. Q+A Episode 14.

32:09 Lucinda Mackworth-Young shares her great strategies on how to teach students to play by ear. Read her book, Piano By Ear here. Q+A Episode 13.

41:58 Join us in two weeks for our first live show of the year. Make sure you join our Facebook group or ask a question here.