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Q+A Ep 10 Maintaining Enthusiasm & How to Play Effortlessly

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Interviews in full with Penelope Roskell & Sally Cathcart

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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 i...

Q+A Ep 9 Improving Quality of Online Lessons & Teaching Teenagers

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Overview: Episode 9

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 Rae de Lisle, Joey Lieber & Jo Kotchie
09:30 Q: I teach piano lessons via zoom at the moment but find it very difficult to do singing lessons online as there are gaps in the sound. Dealing with Lag!!!
12:15 Joey's Blog Posts: How to improve sound quality in your lessons & 10 ways to improve your internet speed in music lessons.
14:00 How Rae deals with sound issues, teaching at a really high level.
16:00 How Jo works around online piano lesson issues
17:01 Joey shares some videos of how he teaches jazz with students over Zoom to avoid the lag.
21:00 Gillian asks how to start a child off with improvisation.
27:00 Q: How do I make sure my young students develop good habits around technique during this time.
I’m worried about them picking...

Q+A Ep 8 Helping Students with Anxiety & Teaching Online and In Person

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A great discussion about teaching children who are dealing with anxiety, ideas around parent issues, safety when returning to face to face lessons and ideas on how to get students practising. Check out the show now.

New resources in the Online Lessons Teacher Resource Kit including the sheet music and example ensemble score of "Ev'ry Little Cell" along with teaching ideas, and a poster for your studio for when you return to face to face teaching about Covid19 safety protocols.If you haven't yet registered, you can access the Teacher Resource Kit here.

Overview for Episode 8

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 Sara Campbell, Susan Head & Caryn Eastman
07:40 Q: I’m finding one of my students is not learning as well as she normally would. She seems to lack focus...

Q+A Ep 7 Supporting Perfectionist & Autistic Students & Fun Lessons!

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Glory St. Germain, Caryn Eastman and Paula Melville-Clark did some deep dives into this week's topics with a large range of ideas and suggestions for working with students from beginner through to advanced, special needs students and of course returning to face-to-face lessons.

We will be adding to the free service for piano teachers called the Online Lessons Teacher Resource Kit which accompanies the Online Lesson Resource page.

The kit includes a heap of printable downloads in A4 & US Letter size: 64 flashcards, 2 & 3 paper keyboards, 1, 2, 6 & 12 stave manuscript paper and a template to download to start your student communication strategy using Google Sheets. We'll be adding more materials this coming week, so if you haven't yet registered, you can access the kit here.

Teacher Poll

I will teach online...

As a lesson replacement for sick students to avoid makeup requests. 23%
I only teach face to face 2%
If the virus persists 44%
Ongoing to expand and ex

Q+A Ep 6 Using Puppets & Staying Connected with Technology

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Angela Turner, Dr Kerry Vann and Kia Leong were a brilliant panel offering some very useful suggestions for working with students from beginner through to advanced as well as individual and class lessons.

This week, we have launched a free service to teachers called Online Lessons Teacher Resource Kit which accompanies the Online Lesson Resource page we created several weeks ago. The kit includes a heap of printable downloads in A4 & US Letter size: 64 flashcards, 2 & 3 paper keyboards, 1, 2, 6 & 12 stave manuscript paper and a template to download to start your student communication strategy using Google Sheets. You can access the Teacher Resource Kit here.

Overview for Episode 6

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this weeks show (timings in the broadcast):

00:00 Welcome to our guests
02:40 A look at each of the panel members' set up Dr Kerry Vann
07:10 Angela's studio set up including using Many Cam, different microphones
12:00 Kia shares her ...

Q+A Ep 5 Pain Points of Teaching Online; Advanced Students and more

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Overview for Episode 5

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this weeks show (timings in the broadcast):

00:00 Welcome to our guests
02:40 A look at each of the panel members' set up Daniel McFarlane
04:10 Scott's studio set up
05:15 David shares his solution for his class teaching for 5-8-year-olds first lesson piano
10:00 Discussion about Microphones - David uses AKG D40
12:10 Pictures and videos sent in from viewers including a brilliant set up by Dianne from
14:00 Mindset - what that means to them: in their studio, their students, their career
20:30 Paul speaks to Sara Campbell about Mindset & Online Recitals
25:10 Online recitals for Make Music Day
25:35 Simple games to engage students in this environment. Including some great app suggestions from Daniel
27:45 Nicola Canton shares some piano teaching ideas and her one-week membership trial.
31:30 Advanced students sending recording before lessons - Scott shares
34:00 Daniel shares what he does with a...

Q+A Ep 4 The Basics of Online Teaching Technology

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Music from this episode
Follow Bas Buwalda on Instagram (@bjjbuwalda), here his other performances. In this episode, we heard Talk is Cheap by Chet Faker with Jaime Chew @jaimechew_cy

Rockatta by Mike Dooley

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Dr. Therese Milanovic has provided information for Online Piano Teachers and a free introduction to the Taubman Approach video which you can access here.

Overview for Episode 4

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this weeks show (timings in the broadcast):

00:00 Welcome to our guests
02:40 A look at each of the panel members' set up - Elissa's set up
03:50 Helen's set up
08:40 Therese's set up
13:25 What advice for a very simple start online - including some good tech
- Headsets, Microphones and other software - all links are below.
22:00 Our favourite resources for online tech from many different people around the wor...

Q+A Ep 3 Asynchronous Online Teaching Strategies

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Overview for Episode 3

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this week's show (timings in the broadcast):

04:00 Presenters studio set up & how sharing their strategies for surviving the online teaching piano experience

16:30 Lyndel shares her studio set up where she does asynchronous teaching and teaching rhythm to beginners

18:25 Using an above camera and multi-cams on your computer - using OBS, Manycam

22:30 Video example of asynchronous teaching and explanation

28:50 Examples of teachers' studios from around the world

34:15 A video example set up from Peter Simpson in Kent

36:50 Am I still permitted to teach Face-to-face. A lawyer gives their opinion then based on Stage 3 limitations.

41:00 The panel shares their views on face-to-face teaching at this time.

46:40 Angel McIntosh who runs the 500 student Forte School of Music Stafford shares her strategies for working with children during this time. Some great advice.

50:00 Bring...

Q+A Ep 2 Combatting Technical Problems When Teaching Online

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Question overview from Episode 2

Where you can find specific answers to your questions in this week's show (timings in the broadcast):

4:00 Teaching more advanced students, the best way to go about this. Tech set up and using video recordings as well as sharing video in a lesson and sharing computer audio.

12:40 Experienced online teacher, Brenda Hunting, shares her studio set up as she has been teaching online since 2014 and includes beat and rythm activities

18:10 How to do online recitals.

21:45 Combatting time lag & doing rhythm work and piano practice checklist

23:50 Avoiding the issue of mirroring of the keyboard while teaching piano

23:50 Pedal cam, suggestions on how to do that.

28:20 Getting better sound in Zoom

37:25 AMEB and old syllabuses extended into 2021

39:10 Tony Betros General Manager from ANZCA shares the ANZCA solution

41:50 Barry Walmsley, Australian Manager for Trinity College London shares what Trinity is doing for exams.

44:30...