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3.11.2024

👩🏼‍💻 Music Theory Exercises for Primer

Jenny Melton March 11, 2024 0 Comments

I have created customized online exercises and quizzes corresponding to each unit of Piano Adventures Basic Method Primer Level. If you are using a different method, please refer to this Correlation Chart from PianoAdventures.com. Piano Adventures Primer Exercises Unit 3🔤 🎹 Keyboard Letter Names C-D-E 🔤...

3.08.2024

🖨️ New Printable: The Best Way to Remember the Grand Staff!

Jenny Melton March 08, 2024 0 Comments

I created a grand staff printable to help organize the many mnemonic devices I have learned over the years. To give credit where credit is due, I want to thank my student, Ed, for figuring out the phrases to relate the mnemonics for lines and spaces on the treble and bass clefs. You will see those written at...

12.01.2023

🎄 Twelve Weeks of Lessons (Parody)

Jenny Melton December 01, 2023 0 Comments

On the first week of lessons, my teacher taught to me to improvise on the black keysOn the second week of lessons, my teacher taught to me to sit up straight and to improvise on the black keysOn the third week of lessons, my teacher taught to mealways countto sit up straight and to improvise on the...

10.22.2023

📜 Happy Birthday to the Composer of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2!

Jenny Melton October 22, 2023 0 Comments

So how can you celebrate Franz Liszt's birthday?📜 Listen to Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major. 📜 Choose a Liszt piece to start learning as a repertoire piece. Here are my personal suggestions!Consolation No. 1 in E majorConsolation No. 3 in D-flat major📜 Watch Victor Borge play Hungarian...

10.18.2023

🍳 The Griddle (parody of The Middle)

Jenny Melton October 18, 2023 0 Comments

Teaching my students their favorite songs is important to me. Sometimes the lyrical content isn't appropriate in pop songs, so I decided to rewrite the lyrics to The Middle for that very reason. This parody is based off the song by Zedd, Maren Morris, and Grey. I hope you enjoy it!The GriddleVerse 1Whisk...

10.09.2023

🕵️‍♀️ And Then There Was a Piano

Jenny Melton October 09, 2023 0 Comments

It was a bleak and blustery autumn afternoon when I received the first of many similar emails.October 7, 2022Greetings, I want to give away my late husband's Yamaha Baby Grand Piano GC1 to a passionate instrument lover. If you have any family or church in mind who will cherish it, share this message with them. God bless...

9.26.2023

🏙️ Happy Birthday to the Composer of Rhapsody in Blue!

Jenny Melton September 26, 2023 0 Comments

September 26th is George Gershwin's Birthday! So how can you celebrate?🏙️ Watch George Gershwin play his own compositions. Here's I Got Rhythm. 🏙️ Sight-play his jazz standards like his first hit, Swanee. 🏙️ Choose a Gershwin piece to start learning as a repertoire piece. Here are my personal suggestions!S'Wonderful...

9.11.2023

📚 Review: Daring Greatly

Jenny Melton September 11, 2023 0 Comments

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown, Ph.D. LMSWFor piano teachers and students alike, there are many situations that make us vulnerable. Lessons, recitals, auditions, and teaching are a few of the many arenas we may find ourselves in. If you...

3.11.2024

👩🏼‍💻 Music Theory Exercises for Primer

3.08.2024

🖨️ New Printable: The Best Way to Remember the Grand Staff!

12.01.2023

🎄 Twelve Weeks of Lessons (Parody)

10.22.2023

📜 Happy Birthday to the Composer of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2!

10.18.2023

🍳 The Griddle (parody of The Middle)

10.09.2023

🕵️‍♀️ And Then There Was a Piano

9.26.2023

🏙️ Happy Birthday to the Composer of Rhapsody in Blue!

9.11.2023

📚 Review: Daring Greatly

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