Today, we are flooded with musical arrangements of all kinds. Through the years, I have heard Bach’s “Toccata in D minor” as...

Originally Published: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute The Blues as a Teaching Unit The teaching of the musical elements of the blues...

Originally Published: American Music Teacher I always enjoyed improvising on the piano as I was growing up in a small town near a farming...

I grew up in a rural community near Niagara Falls in New York before moving to a West Virginia town on the Ohio River during my sophomore...

Some might call it “Old School” to prefer receiving and distributing good old fashion printed materials at conferences and workshops… but...

Originally Published: GCC Website “Can learning to play the piano actually be fun?” That is the question. Traditionally, piano lessons...

I mostly skipped high school physical education classes to help the music teacher. But little did I dream that one of the greatest...

Originally Published: Music Educators Journal Music technology is a growing part of the information and multimedia revolution that is...

Originally Published: Music Educators Journal Group keyboard instruction provides a positive and motivating environment for elementary...

Originally published: American Music Teacher (Pictured above: Logo used for several studio and class locations for a period of ten years)...