Following are a few of my favorite composing tips for beginners given at a UVMTA workshop that I attended by composer Jordan Roper. Memorab...

Piano Teaching Blogs are Changing Music Education Fifteen years ago I was drawn into the online world of piano teaching tips as I was ...

This week at piano camp the activities that students sampled were based on the 4 Arts of Music: Improvising, Reading, Arranging and Composi...

Recently I received  a tip from one of my piano students about a fun site with "backing tracks" in a variety of styles that pro...

Chord Progressions are the ingredients to music, but sometimes practicing them in drill like fashion can be a bit boring.  But accompa...

Planning a well balanced piano teaching curriculum can be difficult because there are so many elements to consider as students began learnin...

One of the easiest ways to get piano students improvising from the very first lesson is to have them focus on playing the notes from the p...