Prepare like an athlete for the game of music notation! As a high school student, I mostly skipped gym class to help the music teacher....

During his undergraduate years, he was a conscientious objector against the Vietnam War, was repeatedly arrested for protesting Jim Crow…

Music has been shifting from a venerable acoustic tradition to a digital era that affects most music genres worldwide. Students in this...

Learning to play keyboard and music theory would never be easy tasks. Not to mention putting them together, it may be more than double of...

Today, we are flooded with musical arrangements of all kinds. Through the years, I have heard Bach’s “Toccata in D minor” as...

Originally Published: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute The Blues as a Teaching Unit The teaching of the musical elements of the blues...

Originally Published: American Music Teacher I always enjoyed improvising on the piano as I was growing up in a small town near a farming...

I grew up in a rural community near Niagara Falls in New York before moving to a West Virginia town on the Ohio River during my sophomore...

Some might call it “Old School” to prefer receiving and distributing good old fashion printed materials at conferences and workshops… but...

Originally Published: GCC Website “Can learning to play the piano actually be fun?” That is the question. Traditionally, piano lessons...

As published in American Music Teacher, Journal of the Music Teachers National Association, Dec./Jan. 2017/2018. Classroom Keyboard: Play...

The Keyboard/Guitar strand of the National Core Music Standards calls for students to become not only performers, but also creators of...

This innovative approach to learning the keyboard provides an unique, sequential approach that utilizes iconic notation to teach harmonic...

Classroom Keyboard offers students much more than the standard series of keyboard melodies and technical exercises. The authors provide...

I mostly skipped high school physical education classes to help the music teacher. But little did I dream that one of the greatest...