The Girl and Her Bunny - National Composition Contest Winner!

Being a piano teacher makes me happy! My new student Clara, is just one of the delightful children I get to spend time with each week. It made my day today to hear that she was recently featured on the news for winning the National Let's Play Music Composition Contest.

Click the link to hear her perform her piece and learn the storyline that goes with it!

8 Year Old Earns Top Honors at Music Composition Competition

or  Download her free piece "The Girl and Her Bunny"  and other student composition winners.

How can KPop Golden Help Improve Musicality?

 At my last piano group lesson, several of my students were talking about K-Pop. I'm out of the kid movie loop, so at first I thought, "Is this some new kind of candy?"😂

After the lesson, I explored some of the memorable music from this movie that just sticks in your mind after you hear it.  

Writing Effective Melodies

As I teach composing to students, I often start by emphasizing that using more steps and skips than leaps will create more effective melodies. Hopping around on the keys like a ping pong ball bouncing is not likely to create memorable music!

But music is an art, not a science. "Breaking the rules" sometimes is more effective than you think!