by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Music Learners |
Jan here (from the PWA team). Sometimes I think back fondly on the times we ran across someone who was convinced they weren't musical, and yet the game had them playing in minutes. A couple of years ago, we met a man who was 60% deaf. His mother had been telling...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Music Teachers |
Piano teachers get a bad rap, in part because of the challenges of music literacy, i.e., reading sheet music, and the repetition needed to acquire fluency. There is even a semi-autobiographical psychological study that uses the piano teacher as an archetype of...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Music Teachers |
One of the primary challenges of being a private piano teacher and making a living at it is time. Most of your available students only have time after school or after work during the week, giving you maybe 2 to 4 hours of time per day to teach, and then Saturdays, and...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Grandparents |
Here's a really great heart warming story that appeared in GRAND Magazine a while back about how Ronnie Milsap's grandparents influenced his musical development... "Country And R&B legend Ronnie Milsap was born blind and into extreme poverty in the...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Grandparents |
Tips for Sharing Music Across the Generations AARP: http://www.aarp.org/family/grandparenting/articles/goyer_the_beat_goes_on.html "Go as a family to hear music. Experience all kinds of music. Expose younger and older generations to a wide variety. Everyone doesn't...
by Vincent Miele | Apr 19, 2010 | Musical Literacy |
There seems to be a big dividing line amongst musicians, the literate and the illiterate. Of course most non-musicians are illiterate, i.e., can't read (or play) music, but many many accomplished and even famous musicians cannot read music! They are even proud of it,...
