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Supercharge Your Piano Studio Organisation with Google Gadgetry

by Nicola Cantan

When it comes to piano studio organisation, there are many great options. You might be a pencil and paper type of person, you may be using Microsoft applications, or even something specifically designed for music teachers such as My Music Staff.

07/12/2017 Read more

How to Build and Run a Successful Travelling Music Lab

by Rosemarie Penner

Today we welcome an extremely informative guest post from Rosemarie Penner. She has transformed her piano teaching business through technology and travel.  By using iPads and other technology, Rosemarie has created a successful travelling music lab. Not sure what a travelling music lab is? I’ll let Rosemarie explain all that and more!

07/10/2017 Read more

Soundbrenner Silent Vibrating Metronome

by Tim Topham

A Vibrating, Silent Metronome? If you have trouble getting students to use a metronome in their practice, then this new piece of music technology might be just the answer.

04/17/2017 Read more

How Technology Has Changed the Way Children Discover the Joy of Music

by Caroline

Music v. Technology Children have always enjoyed music. Where it starts varies for each child. It may begin with a lullaby mom or dad sings before bed. It could be that you listen to the radio and they pick up on the songs you’re listening to.

08/08/2016 Read more

My new go-to piano sheet music resource: Noviscore

by Tim Topham

Do you sometimes find it hard to source good-quality arrangements of piano sheet music (especially pop) that your students actually enjoy playing, that actually sound good and that are fun to teach?

10/29/2015 Read more

Best music notation software: online, offline, apps and everything else

by Tim Topham

When it comes to publishing print-ready music online, musicians and teachers are completely spoilt for choice these days. I still remember when handwriting scores on paper was about the only way to produce written music unless you were in the music publishing industry; there were zero options for print music creation on your computer.

10/23/2015 Read more
 

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Is the iPad Killing Piano Memorisation?

by Tim Topham

OK so I’m just going to get it out there: I’m not a memoriser. Never have been. Always struggled with it and I find it one of the hardest things to do on piano.

09/18/2015 Read more

How to Import Sheet Music Into Your iPad

by Tim Topham

I get asked this question by lots of teachers, particularly when they first decide to purchase an iPad. Getting started using an iPad in your music lessons for the first time can be quite a challenge, so I hope the resources on this page will help to get you started.

08/20/2015 Read more

Get the latest Bluetooth Page Turner from AirTurn

by Tim Topham

If you use an iPad to store your sheet music (and who doesn’t these days?!), then you should definitely invest in a Bluetooth Page Turner from a company like Airturn. It makes shuffling through pages on your app (you use Forscore, right?

07/28/2015 Read more

Motivating teens with PianoMaestro

by Tim Topham

How do you motivate teen beginners? We all know that video games are pretty popular with teens, particularly boys. So trying to convince them to do their piano practice when there are far more fun things to be doing online can be a real challenge.

08/03/2014 Read more

Top 5 most influential piano teachers online

by Tim Topham

Online Piano Teachers and Bloggers  Do you ever feel overwhelmed with the amount of great information you could spend your life reading online about piano teaching?  While narrowing down a list of the most influential teachers to only five was always going to be difficult, it has also been a really interesting exercise.

07/20/2014 Read more

From Pixels to Paper | eBook review – All about music reading software

by Tim Topham

Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask about using technology to read/access/create music! I have to admit that I wasn’t sure that I could learn much more about using technology to view sheet music – it’s something I’ve done with my iPad for years.

07/11/2014 Read more