Posted by: clariniano on: August 30, 2011
Health: Playing piano, woodwinds, and to a lesser extent, string instruments can improve blood circulation. Playing an instrument or singing has revealed that Alzhiemer’s Disease is rare among trained musicians. Practicing music and taking music lessons is a good way to help deal with depression and anxiety by focussing the mind away from the illness. [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 30, 2011
There are many teachers who say that they will only teach children. However, I have thought about the advantages of teaching older students, those that are at least in their teen years. Here are a few of them: Older students often take longer length lessons. (= more money for the teacher) Second, older students don’t [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 30, 2011
To me, a teacher who has pets is somewhat warmer than someone who doesn’t. I’ve only had a couple of teachers that didn’t have pets, one was a clarinet teacher I studied with a VERY short time, though those couple lessons I learned quite a bit from her. The other is a piano teacher, but [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 30, 2011
Had another what I think is a brilliant idea, one that rewards students for learning many pieces, because many students, especially piano students, often learn only a few pieces in a year, most often their method book pieces, or if they are beyond method books, their pieces for their exam. Basically, the program is that [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 29, 2011
I have developed a 6 part music composition curriculum that I thought I would share, since I never liked any of the books that supposedly help students tap into their creativity. The first part is that students will be given a 4-bar rhythm and to turn it into a composition of 8 or 12 bars, [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 28, 2011
During this past summer, my husband and I have been coming up with new ideas for the upcoming year, and I thought we’d share some of our focus points. The first one will be helping students learn to compose music. We have created a 6-part composition program, which will mean students will have a new [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 14, 2011
Would you like to get a seat in the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, also known as TYWO, www.tywo.ca? The audition dates are fast approaching…audition date is September 18! I can help you get a high seating placement in that ensemble, provided that you incorporate my suggestions in lessons and practice. I mainly work with [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 14, 2011
Due to a lot of musical tasks I have wanted to do, but not have the time for, due to growing performance demands and new students, I am looking for an assistant to help us out with music related tasks, some directly involving the studio, and others related to performances for the 2011-2012 school year, [...]
Posted by: clariniano on: August 2, 2011
Here are two worksheets I have created on helping piano students learn LH and RH identification and finger numbers: HandsandFingerNumbers1_pdf HandsandFingerNumbers2_pdf
