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The Chopin Method: Explanation video
This video demonstrates how Chopin taught his students. The explanation is given by David Cools and Anthony Hughes.
A number of issues are discussed in this video:
- preparation regarding sitting posture when playing the piano;
- the importance of posture …
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The interior of a musical instrument: Visual material
Through this article, you will be presented with stunning photographs that reveal the architectural interiors hidden within classical instruments.
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NomadPlay: Sheet music app
What's NomadPlay?
NomadPlay is a sheet music app allowing you to play along great artists and ensembles. For the first time, you could play alongside a real orchestra, practice duets with your favorite musicians, sing along a professional choir! The …
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Familiarize yourself with scales: Playlist with explainer videos
Finding your way in scales is a mystery to many students. In these teaching videos made in corona time, Stéphane clearly explains the theory. The topics covered in the playlist are:
- twelve keys;
- major and minor;
- preliminary drawing;
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Minimum Maximum: Lestip
The German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann decorates traditional oil paintings with red noses or cross-eyed. What strikes? Minimal intervention, maximum effect. Do you also try this out with your students with their score as a work product?
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Irritate with Brian Eno: Lesson Suggestion
Producer Brian Eno likes to impose restrictions on his artists. He taped the fingers of Coldplay's Chris Martin together to force him to play the piano in a new way.
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George Collier: Transcriptions of the boogie woogie with score
Do you have students interested in the boogie woogie? Then you have certainly noticed that it is not easy to find scores for these piano blues. Maybe you can help them with the transcriptions and link to the free scores in this playlist?
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Improvisation for all!: How do students experience collective free improvisation in compulsory education
The research Improvisation for all! How do pupils experience collective free improvisation in compulsory education ? The experiences of pupils (n=1282) from secondary education with a collective free improvisation lesson.
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Improvising around Halloween in piano lessons
With this improvisation around Halloween you can go in all directions. Your students playfully get to know the parts of the piano and experiment with them to create a beautifully decorated spectacle in which they integrate all the discovered …
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Winter warm-up exercise for fine motor skills
In this video you see a practical example of how fine motor skills are developed by means of a game to strengthen buckling finger joints.
This game is ideal to play in the winter. Repeat this game regularly and let the students pay more and more …
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Professor Longhair: Method for piano
In this video you will receive an introduction to Professor Langhaar's didactics for piano teachers who teach in the lower grades. In the method Get it done with Professor Langhaar, fun is the cement between theory, technique, improvising and …
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The use of a finger trampoline in the lesson instrument: Lesson idea
This learning resource illustrates the use of a finger trampoline to improve finger technique. However, it can also be used as an instrument.
The parents of the student in this resource gave permission to the teacher to use this resource.
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