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3 Ways To Make Teaching Scales More Interesting

by Tim Topham

Make teaching scales more interesting for your students with these fun ideas!

02/27/2023 Read more

Best Student Duets with Just 5-fingers from Diabelli

by Tim Topham

If you haven’t yet introduced the duets of Anton Diabelli to your teaching studio, you are missing out on some of the best student duets for beginner and intermediate students. In fact, as long as students can read a 5-finger position in C Major, they can at least play the first couple of these pieces. Diabelli ... Best Student Duets with Just 5-fingers from Diabelli

08/29/2022 Read more

How to Set Up Zoom for Online Piano Lessons

by Georgina Wilson

For the past couple of years, more and more piano teachers have been turning to Zoom to provide online music lessons for their students. There are so many benefits to zoom piano lessons, from being able to teach students further afield, to the student feeling more comfortable playing and learning in their own home on ... How to Set Up Zoom for Online Piano Lessons

08/15/2022 Read more

7 Ways to Add Character to Your Piano Lessons

by Laura Gabrielson

Activities that will keep your piano students engaged... and won't cost you more time or money.

07/21/2022 Read more

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by Sarah Buckley

03/28/2022 Read more

How to Teach Burgmuller Ballade in C minor Op 100 No 15 [Free Score and Notes]

by Ruby Rose Cruz

How to Teach Burgmuller Ballade in C minor Op 100 No 15 [Free Score and Notes] Today’s Free Download

04/29/2020 Read more
 

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How One Epic Piano Teachers’ Conference Will Change Your Teaching Forever – Part 2

by Tim Topham

Find out what makes our piano teachers' conference different. Part 2

12/05/2019 Read more

How One Epic Piano Teachers’ Conference Will Change Your Teaching Forever – Part 1

by Tim Topham

Introducing a piano teachers' conference unlike any other. Part 1

11/24/2019 Read more

Introducing TopMusicCo

by Tim Topham

Something special is coming to your favourite creative piano teaching site I’m super excited to announce that you’ll soon see some changes at TimTopham.com. A lot has changed since I started blogging in 2010. What started as a simple blog has now become a company with a team of fourteen people supporting teachers around the ... Introducing TopMusicCo

11/01/2019 Read more

10 Irresistible Piano Teacher Qualities

by Emma Lunsford

How to Attract Students by Emphasizing Your Strengths: 10 Piano Teacher Qualities that Will Set You Apart as a Piano Teacher With a competitive market, teachers can feel unmemorable amongst the crowd, with parents calling one teacher after another. Or worse yet, they may feel pressured to compete on price. Instead, a better approach is ... 10 Irresistible Piano Teacher Qualities

10/14/2019 Read more

We Did A Survey and Here’s What a Typical Piano Teacher Looks Like

by Tim Topham

What does the typical piano teacher look like these days?

03/19/2019 Read more

How to Teach Piano Chords: The B.S. Method

by Tim Topham

Ever wondered the simplest way to teach piano chords? If you’d said to me a month ago that talking “BS” in my studio was a good way of helping kids play chords, I would have been shocked to say the least! Now, having used this technique on a number of students, its value is unsurpassed ... How to Teach Piano Chords: The B.S. Method

12/07/2018 Read more