ISBN 9780849797637.
Fourth Finger on B-flat: Effective Strategies for Teaching Piano presents real-world solutions and teaching approaches that piano teachers can readily use in their studios. This user-friendly and personable text incorporates the basics of establishing a studio and then moves on to discussions of how students musically develop and learn, using ideas from educational psychology.
The book includes:
Specific ideas to use for your first interview/audition with a student
A comprehensive overview of musical development
Guidelines for teaching students with special needs, talented, ADHD
Unique musical ways of knowing
10 easy steps to Musical Problem-Solving
Teaching strategies to mesh with different learning styles
Idea to organize a systematic approach to scale and technical development
Practice techniques that include student self-assessment
Creative projects for the studio |
