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#20 From False Start to a Thriving Studio in Two Years
Vanessa Munns, a Group Piano University graduate, lives in Beacon, a tiny farming community in the Central Wheat Belt of Western Australia. She drives up to 300km a day to teach. She has rebuilt her studio from...
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#19 From Side Hustle to Teaching Full-Time with Groups
She was told you can't make a proper job out of teaching piano.
She has 80 students.
Lorraine lives on Malta - a tiny island in the Mediterranean with a small population. For years she taught piano on the side while...
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#18 Start Your Groups in the Space You Already Have
It's been a busy few weeks here as Paul and I have been doing pre-enrolment chats with piano teachers for Group Training University. What's surprised me is that so many teachers have done other courses that exist out...
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#17 Inside a Professional Group Piano Lesson
What does a great group piano lesson actually look like?
In this episode we share a real life group piano lesson in action - stopping along the way to unpack exactly what is happening, why it works, and the...
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#16 Inside Scoop: Kawai Shares the Trends Reshaping your Piano Teaching With Warrick Baker, GM of Kawai
Have you ever lost a student? Maybe they didn’t stop loving music but life just got in the way?
In this episode, I spoke with Warrick baker, General Manager of Kawai Australia, when we caught up at Top Music...
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#15 Are Adult Students Your Untapped Opportunity? - with Dr. Pamela Pike
Episode 15: Are Adult Students Your Untapped Opportunity? - with Dr. Pamela Pike
Most piano teachers spend their careers focused on children. But here's a number that might surprise you:
In the US, around 77% of...
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#14 Blues Made Easy - get cool, get creative (and build valuable music skills without even noticing!) With composer, Mark Matthews
Mark Matthews is a composer, educator, and self-described musical engineer, and he has an unmissable approach to learning the blues; you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out.
In this episode, Mark meets me...
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#13 How to Teach Improvisation in The First Lesson (No Jazz Degree Required)
When you hear the word ‘improvisation’, if you picture one of these smoky dens where these really cool jazz dudes sit in an almost meditative state, playing and improvising with their mates whilst being completely...
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#12 Every Piano Teacher Needs to Know this Japanese Warm-up Game
Looking for something engaging, fun, and packed with real musicianship skills to bring into your studio?
This episode is a little different - and so much fun!
Paul recently ran this traditional Japanese clapping...
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#11 What happens when piano students become active music makers? With composer, Elissa Milne
“Because we have keys [on a piano] we can press, it’s so tempting to turn the keys into a data entry exercise, and to think if we get the data wrong, the calculations will come out wrong. You could play all the wrong...
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#10 How Digital Disruption is Rewiring Students' Brains - with Dr. Anita Collins
The children sitting in front of you right now have brains that work entirely differently to the way they did just a few years ago. They’re living in a world where information is accessible at all times.
In this...
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#9 Thinking about Group Piano? Don’t let your room hold you back
"I'd love to teach groups, but my studio's not big enough." If you've ever said or thought your space wouldn’t work for groups, this episode is for you.
In reality, you probably don't need a bigger space. You just...
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