Suggestions, please!
I'd love to know what pieces you enjoy teaching
Firstly, happy new year!
Over the next few months I’m going to be sharing creative activities for specific pieces. I’ve already had several requests from keen readers, but I’d love some more.
Help me write something useful
Leave a comment below telling me what pieces your students love to play.
Do you have any students who are getting bored of a piece and who need a bit of creative inspiration to reinvigorate their interest?
If I like your choice I’ll write a series of activities for you.
An evolving format
My goal is to help you to teach more creatively and working on these activities for you will help me figure out how best to do this.
Over the last year I’ve written several posts along this line. You can find the archive here and at the bottom of this post. If you browse through you’ll see that the format is slowly evolving to make it more and more useful.
My major inspirations for this series are the American Forrest Kinney and the German Herbert Wiedemann and I’m trying to find the sweet spot between their two approaches.
In the long-term I’d like to work with a publisher to publish an inspiring book full of ideas and methods that you can use in your daily teaching.
Testing this method live, like I’m doing here, is really helpful. So please help me out and let me know what pieces you’d like to see me explore.
I have had such fun teaching "Blackberry Jam" by Elissa Milne. She is a fabulous composer and it's a special piece with a great groove!