Q+A Ep 27 How to Make Practice Fun
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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...
Q+A Ep 12 How to Teach in a Fun and Interesting Way
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Overview: Episode 12
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):
00:00 Welcome to our guests
02:10 A look at each of the panel members' set up
13:15 Q: When are you returning to face to face teaching piano and what will you do differently during beginner piano lesson ideas compared to pre-Covid19 times?
17:30 One viewer's greatest challenge is “teaching in a fun and interesting way”. Watch the hysterically funny videos of Miss Dontbee and Miss Doobee teaching piano with ways to make learning fun and interesting for students. Dennis,...
