WHY “PIANO BASKETBALL: PLAY WITHOUT NOTATION”?
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....
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PLAY AND CREATE MELODIES WITH CHORDS
Brereton Wadsworth Bissell: 1937 ~ 2022
During his undergraduate years, he was a conscientious objector against the Vietnam War, was repeatedly arrested for protesting Jim Crow…
Why Keyboard
Music has been shifting from a venerable acoustic tradition to a digital era that affects most music genres worldwide. Students in this...
Never an Easy Task
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...
Appropriate Arrangements
Today, we are flooded with musical arrangements of all kinds. Through the years, I have heard Bach’s “Toccata in D minor” as...
How to Blues
Originally Published: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute The Blues as a Teaching Unit The teaching of the musical elements of the blues...
Improvising Attitudes
Originally Published: American Music Teacher I always enjoyed improvising on the piano as I was growing up in a small town near a farming...
My Transpositions
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...
Examples of Presentation Handouts
Some might call it “Old School” to prefer receiving and distributing good old fashion printed materials at conferences and workshops… but...
Learning Music from the Inside Out
Originally Published: GCC Website “Can learning to play the piano actually be fun?” That is the question. Traditionally, piano lessons...
A Welcome Addition
As published in American Music Teacher, Journal of the Music Teachers National Association, Dec./Jan. 2017/2018. Classroom Keyboard: Play...
Creators of Music
The Keyboard/Guitar strand of the National Core Music Standards calls for students to become not only performers, but also creators of...
Innovative Approach
This innovative approach to learning the keyboard provides an unique, sequential approach that utilizes iconic notation to teach harmonic...
More Than The Standard
Classroom Keyboard offers students much more than the standard series of keyboard melodies and technical exercises. The authors provide...
An Olympic Adventure
I mostly skipped high school physical education classes to help the music teacher. But little did I dream that one of the greatest...
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