Workshop Links
- I can learn from you – boys as relational learners (book)
- Ideas for Teaching Boys – overview page with links and resources
Lesson content ideas:
- Games – Vibrant Music Teaching Games Library – Nicola Cantan
- No Book Beginners – also at topmusic.co/beginners
- 4 Chord Composing – also at topmusic.co/chords
- Teaching the Blues – also at topmusic.co/blues
- [PDF] Adult First Lesson Checklist – perfect for teen beginners
Methods:
- Piano Safari
- Supersonics Piano Method
- Fired Up! from Piano Pronto
- Way Cool Keyboarding – Groups and Individual. Good for non-readers or struggling kids
Repertoire recommendations:
- Sunday Morning Revival – Kevin Olson
- Midnight Ride – Melody Bober
- Teaching boys – piano repertoire ideas (collections, links and videos)
- Rote pieces: Little Gems for Piano (Paula Dreyer), Repertoire by Rote (Alfred)
- My Repertoire Rap series – demonstration videos of me playing my favourite music
- 15 of the best pieces for boys by Daniel McFarlane
- Mark Matthews (Australian) – Check out Ascendance
- Creating a buzz with film music – The Piano Teacher Article
- Fast and Furious Film Music Links for Boys [PDF download]
- Something for the Boys and Something New for the Boys – Dan Coates
- Especially for Boys – Dennis Alexander
Arrangements:
- Carol Matz’s Favourite and Fun Classics
- Noviscore.com [click for article and examples]
- Online free classical arrangements – G Major Music Theory
Technology:
- Best ipad apps for piano teachers – full listing and links to all my favourite apps
- Groovin’ with Garageband Course – learn how to use this free app and revolutionise your studio
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Workshop Links
Effective Hourly Rate
- California Award Wages
- EHR Calculation Sheet – when you open in Google Docs, go to File>Make a Copy in order to edit yourself
Productivity – Social and Email
- Turn off all notifications
- Choose what you see on FaceBook
- AdBlock for YouTube – Chrome Extension (access through Chrome>Settings>Addons)
- ActiveInbox for Gmail
- Pocket app for saving webpages for viewing later
- Feedly for blogs and website reading
Billing and Studio Management
- MyMusicStaff
- Wave Accounting
- Receipt scanning/storing/sharing
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- How I changed to monthly billing in my studio [worksheet download]
Other Files/Sharing/Storage
- Box – Competitor to Dropbox
- iCloud – Apple
- OneDrive – Microsoft
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Thanks for coming along today – I really hope you enjoyed the presentation.
This is only a small taste of the kind of support, resources and training that I offer piano teachers.
I hope that you’ll consider joining 800+ of your teaching friends from around the world as a member of my Inner Circle Piano Teaching Community where I can continue to support you in this kind of teaching.
Head to topmusic.co/community to join us now 🙂
Looking forward to seeing you online soon,
Tim.
