PPP 357: Teacher Chat with Becki Laurent and Clinton Pratt: Artful Dodges in Piano Lessons

What’s your best deflection technique? Sometimes I’ll answer a question with another question to avoid giving an uncomfortable answer.

What’s your piano kid’s best deflection technique? Do they try to memorize all their music to avoid sight reading? Do they blame the metronome when they aren’t able to play along with it?

Learn some common “artful dodges” in today’s teacher chat with Becki Laurent and Clinton Pratt.

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Listen to the full episode here

Resources mentioned in the show

Notation resources for arranging and orchestration:

Sibelius

Notion

Noteflight

Musescore

Metronome resources:

Sound Brenner

Speakbeat

SuperMetronome Groove Box

Becki shared these stickers from Trevor and Andrea Dow’s Teach Piano Today website:

Hand Position Labels

Keyboard Labels

Key Labels

Practice Routine Labels

To find hundreds of other printable resources visit www.TeachPianoToday.com.

 

Connect with ...

Reach out to Becki Laurent at

Studio Website: www.MsBecki.com

Simply Piano App: Simply Piano

Connect with Clinton Pratt at

Podcast: Piano Sensei Way Podcast

YouTube: Piano Sensei Way

Website: PianoSensei.com

CTC Summer Conference: CreativeTeachingConference.com

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