All articles from: October, 2011

Events Newsletter – Autumn 2011

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I used to produce a paper newsletter featuring the dates for forthcoming piano exams and concerts along with other important information however this has now been superseded by the e-newsletter facility on the blog to which all of my students should be subscribed . It also gives me the opportunity to draw your attention to other professional activities in [...]

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Flashcards – Create your own learning resources

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Since the start of term I have been using a variety of flashcards intensively with my students to improve note recognition in sight reading . It has proved to be popular with my students as they can compete to see who can accurately read and play the notes in a shortest space of time. Some [...]

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Autumn Leaves Composition Project

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Over the next half term I am running a composition project in which all my students are entitled to take part.
The composition entitled “Autumn Leaves” must fit with the video and could take the form of a backing track or a song. There is a score of the appropriate length already set up on my [...]

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