February, 2010

how to teach music to teens?

I am teaching songs to teens, they’re excited about performing but don’t want to put in the work, any suggestion on how I can encourage them to be active in particpating?
have weekly/daily prizes or take the group,with permission from their parents,to a movie every friday

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teaching yourself a song on the piano?

Okay, I’m teaching myself how to play it ends tonight by the All American Rejects on the piano. I quit lessons last year but I took for about 5 years however I never got that good. I’m trying to teach myself the 6 page moderately hard song, and the timing and stuff is screwing me [...]

Is this teaching trauma that i have had or what?

I graduated college in 99′. I have a BA in elementary teaching. Im in NYC. Im 32, and i never had a fulltime perm teaching job. I subbed in 00 though 03 off and on and alittle in 04-5 and havent set foot in the school system since. I have been making money on the [...]

I teach Piano and Guitar. I want to open a studio, I need to know "Crank it Up" , How it is spelled in France?

I am opening a studio and need to know how to Spell and pronounce "Crank It Up " in French/
well, ‘crank it up’ is really an american slang phrase, so it won’t really make sense in french. know what i mean? but in better terms, ‘turn it up’ is ‘tournez-le vers le haut’. i know, [...]