Category Archives for "Methods"

Review: Rockschool Piano Method Books 1 & 2 for beginners

Carol Matz is well known in the piano teaching community for her Famous and Fun series, and more recently for her Interactive Piano Method.

So, have you started using my No Book Beginners (NBB) Framework to help your beginner students at the piano? If not, make sure you

When I started to explore Piano Safari I was excited. I've looked at many piano methods and none made quite as much sense to me as Piano

I believe that Music Learning Theory has been one of the most profound themes I've ever featured on the blog and I'm so thankful to everyone

This month has been Music Learning Theory month on topmusic.co and with that has come a lot of talk about audiation. But what is audiation really?

  Well-meaning piano teachers sit students down at the piano, and immediately take out the method book, and show their student, for

This week's article comes from Music Learning Theory (MLT) teacher and presenter, Barbara Grout and is all about Tips for Teaching Rhythm. Rhythm

In Part 2 of this series (click here for Part 1), I'm going to go into details about strategies that you can use to engage in a more multi-sensory

Neil Moore didn't follow the traditional path to piano teaching. He never read music in his own piano lessons. So when he had the

In today's podcast we're exploring MLT (Music Learning Theory) and how it applies to piano teaching, with Marilyn Lowe. Marilyn Lowe

When I first heard about Music Learning Theory and the work of Dr Edwin Gordon, a whole lot of puzzle pieces I had about music reading suddenly