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My top 7 takeaways from MTNA 2024
Episode 29322nd April 2024 • The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers • Nicola Cantan
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Sharing a few takeaways from the latest MTNA conference in Atlanta.


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293. My top 7 takeaways from MTNA 2024
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292. What to say at the start of your recital
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291. How to stay CALM during recital season
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290. Behind-the-Scenes at Our Silent Film Piano Festival
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289. If This Were EASY What Would That Look Like?
00:29:04
288. Music Neutrality in Music lessons
00:21:59
287. Alternatives to Zoom for Online Lessons
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286. Teaching parents habit stacking for practice
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285. 6 Things to Teach Adult Music Students About Home Practice
00:13:07
284. 13 (Random) Tips for Teachers
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283. Being Your Own Kind Teacher
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282. Practice for One Hand Only
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281. Mnemonics and Parent Education
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280. Practice Notes Ideas and Tips
00:28:57
279. Top Music Practice Mistakes to Avoid
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278. How to Improve Practice Habits in Your Studio
00:21:02
277. Finding work-life balance
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276. Piano Teaching Activities for When You Have 3-5 Minutes to Spare
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275. Just. Do. One. Thing.
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274. Piano teacher notes and notepapers
00:14:02
273. Time-saving tips for music teachers
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272. Finding time for professional development
00:20:57
271. How long is left in my piano lesson?
00:13:22
270. Top 3 piano lesson planning mistakes
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269. Bullet Journaling for Piano Teachers
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268. Mindfulness in Piano Performing
00:30:54
267. Interleaved Music Teaching and Spaced Repetition Practice
00:16:33
266. Piano music memorisation tips
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265. 5 Ways to Make Memorising Music Fun
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264. The Hidden Benefits of Teaching Improvisation and Composition
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263. 5 Fun Ways to Teach Form
00:21:24
262. How Improvisation and Arranging Improves Music Memorisation
00:13:41
261. Printing tips and tricks
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260. Breaking the Piano Memorisation Crutch in Transfer Students
00:16:39
259. Neurodiversity in the Piano Teaching Studio
00:33:55
258. 4 Emotional experiments for piano students
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257. 10 Ways to Teach Piano Students Right vs Left
00:27:22
256. A personal memorisation manifesto
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255. Should you increase your piano teaching rates?
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254. The 5|7|22 Music Memorisation Method
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253. Predicting piano student progress
00:21:24
252. How to avoid burnout as a music teacher
00:18:19
251. Reimagining the metronome in music lessons
00:16:16
250. What can a non-perfectionist teacher learn from a perfectionist?
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249. 3 changes to consider right now
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248. Perfecting the Art of Being a "Good Enough" Piano Teacher
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247. How to Create a Piano Studio Schedule
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246. What to do when students can't take corrections
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245. The foundation of good practice
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244. Retire from your role as "Mistake Police"
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243. Helping students get comfortable with struggle
00:22:35
242. Beat Perfectionism With Video Piano Student Evaluations
00:14:40
241. How to Know When Your Student Has "Finished" a Piece
00:11:22
240. How to Start Teaching Piano in Schools or Preschools
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239. The Best Digital Piano Method Books
00:21:46
238. Piano Polyrhythms with Stacy Fahrion
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237. Tommy the Piano Toe-Dipper
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236. Five Foundations of Successful Preschool Piano Teaching
00:44:47
235. What we can learn from self-taught musicians
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234. Renewing Scales and Deepening Understanding with Improvisation
00:26:41
233. How much should we standardise our piano curriculum?
00:14:11
232. 8 Checkpoints for Transfer Music Students
00:12:59
231. Cute Valentine's Day Idea for Piano Lessons
00:22:19
230. What Should a Beginner Piano Student Learn in Year 1?
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229. How to Choose Inspiring Piano Exam Pieces
00:20:26
228. The Power of Preemptive Theory
00:14:22
227. How to Keep Track of a Lending Library
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226. Keeping track of your music students' progress
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225. Pros and cons of exams for music students
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224. Tips to Settle Piano Performance and Exam Anxiety
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223. How to Prepare for a Piano Exam
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222. What's the point of piano exams?
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221. How to Teach the 12 Bar Blues
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220. Singing Tips for Instrumental Teachers
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219. The Hypocrite Oath
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218. Maintaining a Positive Attitude to Teaching
00:16:17
217. What's the point of piano swag?
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216. Favourite Apps for Teaching Teen Piano Students
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215. No-Practice Piano Lessons For Teens
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214. Improve Teen Retention by Saying It Straight
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213. 4 Types of Teen Piano Students
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212. Different Ways to Introduce a Piece to Your Student
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211. 7 Types of Pieces for Every Piano Student's Repertoire
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210. How to Choose Student Piano Recital Repertoire
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209. How to Stretch Your Music Book Budget
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208. How to Pick Pieces for Your Piano Students
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207. 5 Ways to Prepare for a Piece with Movement
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206. How to teach online group lessons
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205. Dos and Don’ts of Quality Group Workshops
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204. 3 Common Group Piano Teaching Mistakes
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203. Special Piano Parents
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202. Student first, diagnosis second
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201. What’s the diagnosis?
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200. How I became a full-time piano teacher
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199. Trim your studio expenses
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198. Glue yourself to your policies
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197. Are you charging enough?
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196. Set Your Piano Teaching Salary
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195. Make Money Your Buddy as a Music Teacher
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194. Everybody sit down on the floor
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193. iPad apps and YouTube - friend or foe to piano teachers?
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192. How to find flexibility in your teaching schedule
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191. iPad Piano Studio Mistakes to Avoid
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190. Preparatory Steps for Piano Sight Reading
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189. Hit the Rote Piece Accelerator
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188. Invest in these sight-reading skills in your studio
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187. The Stubborn Duet Secret to Teaching Sight Reading Skills
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186. Improvise your way around the world
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185. How to Seek Out Different Music
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184. 5 Ways to Motivate Fatigued Music Students
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183. Lessons for Music Teachers from Folk Dancing
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182. Branding for Music Studios and Teachers
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181. Growing Your Music Teaching Business
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180. Mentoring Our Way to Progress in the Music Teaching Industry
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179. How to Hire Your Right-Fit Teacher
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178. 7 Reasons NOT to Expand Your Music Teaching Business
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177. Debug Your Piano Teacher Life Balance for a New Season
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176. Meditation in the Music Teaching Studio
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175. Best Method for Teaching Piano Scales: Notation, Rote or Writing?
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174. What Order Should I Teach Piano Scales In?
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173. When Should Piano Students Start Scales
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172. How to Teach Piano Modes, for the Uninitiated
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171. 7 Tips to Level-Up the Fun Factor in Solo Lessons
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170. How to Set Up a Piano Studio Lending Library
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169. Adapting Piano Teaching Games in an Instant
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168. Help! My Piano Parents Don't Want Us to Play Games!
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167. 4 Fun DIY Christmas Party Games
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166. 7 Awesome Tools to Assess and Address Transfer Piano Student Gaps
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165. How to Teach Old Piano Parents New Tricks
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164. How to Smoothly Switch Piano Methods Midstream
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163. Piano Transfer Students: Looking at the Sunny Side
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162. 8 of the Best Piano Technique Books to Transform Your Teaching
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161. Teaching Piano Articulation: How, When and Where
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160. How Yoga Could Unlock Success in Your Piano Lessons
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159. 3 Positive Piano Posture Tips for Teaching Wiggly Kids
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158. How to Teach Piano Technique (without Hanon and the Lads)
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157. How to Teach Beginner Piano Students
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156. Teaching Piano from Home with Healthy Habits
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155. Shimmy into Your Symbolic Work-Shirt
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154. The Successful Music Teacher Map: 3 Horizons and a Shortcut
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153. 14 Lyric Writing Prompts for Piano Students
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152. Help Students with Complex Rhythm Dictation
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151. Teaching Songwriting (When You're Not a Pro)
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150. Your Music Teacher Vision Statement
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149. How to Make a Steady Income as a Piano Teacher
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148. Best Project Management Software for Music Schools
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147. Creating a Model Music Studio System
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146. Paid Time Off for Piano Teachers
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145. Overcoming the Disadvantage of Friday Piano Lessons
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144. Growing Grit and Sharpening Piano Students’ Stick-to-it-ive-ness
00:37:18
143. The 5 Masts of Music Student Motivation
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142. Gateway to Growth Mindset for Piano Students
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141. Incentives, Awards and Rewards in the Piano Studio
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140. What I Learnt About Listening in Online Lessons
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139. Improve Aural Memory with these Music Games
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138. Five Steps to Create a Sensational Piano Mashup
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137. A Three-Minute Ear Training Exercise for Piano Students
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136. The Clear and Concise Guide to Curwen Hand Signs
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135. Tips for Teaching Piano Technique to Adults
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134. Six Things Adult Beginner Piano Students Need to Hear
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133. Refined Repertoire Adult Piano Students Will Adore
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132. How to Attract More Adult Piano Students
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131. Three Heroic Habits for Music Teachers
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130. Save Time by Outsourcing Your Music Studio Admin
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129. Doing "All the Things" in Your Piano Studio
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128. Power Up Your Piano Teacher Productivity
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127. Top Findings from the 2020 Vibrant Music Teaching Industry Report
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126. Five Questions to Ask Yourself at Least Once a Year
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125. Getting Strategic About How You Teach Reading
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124. Lead Sheet Basics: Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
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123. How to Teach Pop Music to Piano Students
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122. Why You Should Teach Pop Music in Your Studio
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121. How to make your data TALK
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120. Teaching Beginner Reading in Online Piano Lessons
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119. Teaching Rote Pieces in Online Piano Lessons
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118. Teaching Technique in Online Piano Lessons
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117. Backup Plans for Online Music Teachers
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116. Teaching Strategies for Online Music Teaching
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115. How to Make Your Online Music Lessons FUN
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114. Planning and Systems for Online Music Lessons
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113. Tools and Software for Teaching Piano Online
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112. The Best Equipment for Online Piano Lessons
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Suggestions for Safe and Socially-Distant Piano Studios
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111. How to Get Ready for a New School Year
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110. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Purposeful
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109. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Relevant
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108. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Open
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107. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Fun
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106. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Cool
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105. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Professional
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104. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Welcoming
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103. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Profitable
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102. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Consistent
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101. Vibrant Music Studio 101 – Deliberate
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100. Teacher Lessons Learned in the Past Year
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99. Listen. No Really, Listen. No, REALLY Listen.
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98. Prevent Summer Stress with a Studio Budget
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97. 5 Ways to Decompress in 5 Minutes
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96. How to Show You’re on Their Side
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95. Good, and Again. Good, and Again.
00:13:06
94. The Patience of Understanding and Understanding Patience
00:17:14
93. Studio Review 2019 and Plans for 2020
00:31:18
92. Strictness vs. Authority
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91. I Bought a New Toy – How Should I Use It?
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90. An Argument for Alternating Exam Years
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89. How to Make Private Lesson Games Less Lame
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88. 3 Ways to Invent Time in Your Music Lessons
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87. Building (Friendly) Boundaries
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86. A Recital Mantra for This Headless Season
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85. I Just Want Him to Have Fun
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84. Who is Your Studio Website For?
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83. Feel the Beat in Your Feet
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82. One of my Least Favourite Words
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81. The Nothing Tasks
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80. I Don’t Teach Kids That Don’t Practice
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79. Investigate Everything
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78. Baking the Perfect Music Lesson Lasagna
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77. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 6
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76. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 5
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75. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 4
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74. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 3
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73. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 2
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72. Essential Music Lesson Ingredient No. 1
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71. Lyndel Kennedy on Creative Exploration with Preschoolers
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70. Carina Busch on Involving Parents in Preschool Lessons
00:41:10
69. Kris Skaletski on Teaching Preschoolers in Groups
00:57:32
68. Starting to Teach Preschool Piano
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67. Play is the Work of the Child
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66. My Biggest Technique Teaching Mistakes
00:16:07
65. The Importance of Finding Your Tribe
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64. 5 Creative Music Lesson Openers
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63. What Does It Mean to Creativise Your Teaching
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62. The Five Foundations of Successful Preschool Piano Teaching
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61. Studio Business Cleanse -Day 5
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60. Studio Business Cleanse - Day 4
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59. Studio Business Cleanse - Day 3
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58. Studio Business Cleanse - Day 2
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57. Studio Business Cleanse - Day 1
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56. Finding the fun in your music teaching business
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55. How to organise your music studio calendar
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54. Exploring minor keys with early intermediate students
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53. What to do after method books
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52. Tips for keeping teens in music lessons
00:19:33
51. Music teaching studio events that build community
00:14:37
50. How to encourage reluctant or shy singers
00:13:02
49. 4 Fun vocal warmups for your music studio
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48. How to make any change in your music teaching studio
00:20:29
47. Mistakes to avoid when starting group lessons
00:14:45
46. What to include in group preschool music lessons
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45. Private VS group preschool music lessons - which is better?
00:20:08
44. 3 Benefits of teaching preschoolers in your music studio
00:17:41
43. How to keep your music studio income steady in the summer
00:25:38
42. How to craft the perfect recital welcome speech
00:26:53
41. Make music history fun for music students
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40. My planning process for group workshops
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39. 5 ways to use group workshops in your studio
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38. How to jam with the 12 bar blues in group workshops
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37. How to Improve Your Students’ Duet Skills
00:21:47
36. 3 Simple Improvisation Exercises for Music Teachers
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35. Improvisation as a tool for music teachers
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34. A super fun first lesson with a new piano student
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33. How to start lesson planning for your music lessons
00:18:42
32. How to find YOUR music teaching curriculum
00:17:59
31. What is a Music Teaching Curriculum?
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30. 3 rhythm warmups for your music teaching studio
00:23:37
29. How to help a student who struggles with rhythm
00:13:17
28. Rhythm systems – which one is best?
00:18:52
27. 5 Ways to use solfa singing in your music lessons
00:18:33
26. An introduction to Kodály and solfa
00:19:50
25. Recharging your music teacher batteries
00:14:03
24. Goal setting with students
00:15:32
23. INTERVIEW - Practising Practice with Graham Fitch
00:32:57
22. Your Biggest Teaching Frustration and How to Overcome it
00:14:09
21. Wow touches for your next recital
00:18:45
20. Planning your recital & coordinating
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19. Reframing Your Makeup Lesson Mindset
00:22:08
18. 3 emails you should send all new piano parents
00:20:34
17. Group teaching and overlapping lessons case study with Lynnette Barney
01:04:03
16. How to Make Your Marketing STAND OUT
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15. Marketing for music teachers...the how and the when
00:22:30
14. How to reveal the magic of scales & chords with circle of fifths improv
00:17:10
13. Vibrant Music Teacher Questions and Answers
00:28:02
12. How to use monthly themes in your studio
00:22:25
11. 3 Stages of Gamifying Piano Scales
00:34:51
10. How to teach keyboard geography to newbie piano students
00:17:57
9. Finding and filling the transfer student gaps
00:22:31
8. Vibrant Music Teacher Questions and Answers
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7. What to Do in Your First Lesson with a Transfer Student
00:21:46
6. How to Include More Improvisation and Improve Your Communication
00:40:13
5. Taking Action Against Music Teacher Overwhelm
00:19:21
4. Lesson plans that make sense for music teachers
00:18:39
3. Keeping Parents in the Loop All Year Long
00:16:07
2. Practice, Practice, Practice...the ins and outs of forming a practice habit
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