One App at a Time: Music Cubes
I offer piano lessons along with a 30-minute lab time. Click here to learn more about adding a lab to your lessons. This past week, lab time was split into three parts. The “lab” student was asked to:...
View ArticleGet Inspired! Don’t Miss Episode 5
YouTube has revolutionized the music world. With a couple of clicks, we can be transported to music and instruments of earlier times. With another click, we can travel back to the present and view the...
View ArticleCreative Corner: Inspire With a Movie Script
It’s never too early to be creative. Plan to let your budding musicians explore the wonder of music at the first lesson. Plug into their unlimited imaginations and let them create a soundtrack. The...
View ArticleHow Can Paper Clips Prepare for Positive Performances?
Are you planning a holiday recital? Looking for a way to create confident performances for all your students? Me too… You might recall a recent post about practice pouches? As I roamed the aisles of...
View ArticleOne App at a Time: MultiTouch White Board
There’s nothing like writing on dry erase boards and I’m happy to say I have recently acquired one (with staff lines!) for my studio wall. Another studio essential for many years: the Hal Leonard...
View ArticleOne App at a Time: SightReadingMastery.com
Why are some people SO good at sight reading while others struggle with this skill? Won’t go into details but it is connected to processing and how fast the brain can send messages to the fingers. Some...
View ArticleCreative Corner: Ignite Creativity in the First Lesson
Those first lessons with beginners can seem awfully long–all the instructions to give about posture, the keyboard, key names, high, low…. Although I offer young pianists the chance to explore all the...
View ArticleGet Inspired! Episode 6: A Gift That Keeps On Giving
As the season of gift-giving and holiday performances approaches, in my teaching experience this means: preparing and perfecting holiday music (myself and with my students), printing recital programs,...
View ArticleOne App at a Time: Octavian Basics (and Octavian)
When preparing for a recital and focusing so much on one piece as we just did in December, the time is ripe to not only memorize the key of the piece but master the scale and chords AND know how …...
View ArticleNew at 88pianokeys: Leia’s Corner of the World
1) It’s not just all about me Writing a blog could be considered a self-serving ambition. Looking back at the onset of 88pianokeys.me, the site was going to be for me and act as a filing cabinet in the...
View ArticleKristin Yost Shares Her Favorite Apps
If you have purchased my book The iPad Piano Studio: Keys to Unlocking the Power of Apps you’ll notice QR codes sprinkled throughout the chapters. When scanned, these codes will take you to a mobile...
View ArticleKeep Your 2015 Studio Relevant with Pianoflix
After you received your undergrad music degree, performed a stellar recital of the classics, turned in that lofty thesis, passed a professional accreditation exam or somehow earned shiny, new initials...
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