The best forums, websites and blogs for piano teachers
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Tim Topham
July 10th, 2012
The best forums, websites and blogs for piano teachers
Hopefully many of you are familiar the wealth of great resources for piano teachers on the web, but you’ve probably also realised that there is a lot of rubbish out there! Here is a list of my top picks on the web.
Firstly if you’re teaching in Victoria, Australia, make sure you are signed up to receive AMUSE emails by entering your email address on AMUSE. This will keep you in the loop with all the best PD, conferences, jobs, etc., much of which doesn’t get advertised any other way.
FORUMS FOR TEACHERS:
The Inner Circle, my own members-only community for piano teachers, featuring one of the most vibrant forums on the net. Forget the distractions and cat videos, just get the answers, support and content you need in one place.
PianoWorldForums – Great forum for piano teachers to post or respond to questions. Includes forums about pianos, digital pianos, etc. and those for adult learners, performers, etc. – great for advanced and adult students.
ABRSM Exam Forums – Even if you don’t teach the ABRSM syllabus, this is a forum worth checking every couple of weeks.
PianoStreet – Lots of different topics and another great resource for sheet music.
BLOGS:
http://elissamilne.wordpress.com/ – Elissa Milne is a NSW-based composer and teacher well-known for her enthusiastic presentations and witty blog entries. Well worth subscribing to.
Sheetmusicplus.com – great resource for sheet music. They have some music available for download, the rest you can have delivered. Delivery has taken up to 2 months to get to me in the past, so be aware it’s not quick, but they do have books that no-one else has at competitive prices.
Tim Topham is the founder and director of TopMusic. Tim hosts the popular Integrated Music Teaching Podcast, blogs regularly at topmusic.co and speaks at local and international conferences on topics such as integrated teaching, creativity, business, marketing and entrepreneurship. Tim has been featured in American Music Teacher, The Piano Teacher Magazine, California Music Teacher and EPTA Piano Professional. Tim holds an MBA in Educational Leadership, BMus, DipEd and AMusA.
Hey Tim, thanks for the guide! It’s really interesting to read about the resources in Australia since we are piano teachers too but from a different country – Singapore! Just saying hi! 🙂
Hi Tim, just FYI, the link to your Sheet Music Bookmarks doesn’t seem to be working…at least for me. It says it has a redirect loop with too many redirects…
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San Antonio says:
Informative post! its very helpful for those who want to learn piano or music education easily. thanks for sharing!
ronny24 says:
You can share music playlist with the tool of MusConv.com
Singapore Piano Teachers says:
Hey Tim, thanks for the guide! It’s really interesting to read about the resources in Australia since we are piano teachers too but from a different country – Singapore! Just saying hi! 🙂
Tim Topham says:
Thanks! Lovely to hear from people in Singapore. Hope you enjoy the content 🙂
Amy Chaplin says:
Hi Tim, just FYI, the link to your Sheet Music Bookmarks doesn’t seem to be working…at least for me. It says it has a redirect loop with too many redirects…
Tim Topham says:
Hi Amy. Thanks for letting me know. I’m afraid that bookmark list is no longer available as it was too hard to keep up to date!
Amy Chaplin says:
Understood! Thanks for the reply!
Wallace says:
Hey guys, you should add http://www.flowkey.com to the list of piano learning tools. It’s pretty nice!
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Carly says:
This is a very timely reminder to have a look at a few of my memos from last week! 🙂
Cross-Eyed Pianist says:
Hi Tim – many thanks for the shout-out for my blog. And all the other useful links! 🙂