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#114 – ICYMI: Free Student Award Programs from MTNA
#126 – ICYMI: Piano Safari Stuffed Animal Shopping Guide
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Transcript
Hey there, friends, Amy Chaplin here, host of this podcast. Today is the fourth ICYMI episode of 2024. Today I’m excited to bring to your attention a HUGE free collection of music videos available at your fingertips – something like 192 to be exact.
First, I thought I would mention the other ICYMI episodes In Case You Missed Those. See what I did there oh wait, that would be “ICYMT.” Ach, close enough!
Anyway…! Back in episode #114, I let you know about a free student award program through Music Teachers National Association. Episode #126 highlighted a shopping guide for stuffed animals that fit the Piano Safari method animal themes, and in episode #133, I featured what I call “Assignment Sheet Central,” a free download on the Piano Pantry website with 23 different variations of printable Assignment Sheets.
We’re in the third year of this podcast and every year, I like trying to do something a little new to keep things fresh. In 2022 I shared fun facts about myself so you could get to know me a bit as host. In 2023 I gave one tiny tip in every episode, and this year I’m throwing these ICYMI episodes into the mix.
If you enjoy the podcast and haven’t done so yet, would you please consider taking a moment to rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This will help the podcast continue to be more visible to other teachers who may not have found it yet. Thanks so much! Now onto today’s show.
The compilation of music videos I’m sharing with you today are all available on the Piano Pantry website under blog resources. The first set is a series of expressive movement videos that are wonderful to use for young beginner students and elementary group classes. Students mirror movements set to classical music that reflect both the form and express quality of the music.
If you teach online or use an online assignment app, I’ve even utilized these videos for at-home assignments for young beginners. It’s a great way to get them moving on their own to music outside of the lesson.
To ease the burden of creating these assignments, there is also a free CSV file available that correlates to these expressive videos. You can upload the CSV file direction to an online assignment app like Vivid Practice or Practice Space.
Next up is a series of music theory videos organized into 4 levels from early elementary to late intermediate. Theory videos are a great way to reinforce theoretical concepts or to utilize in a flipped-lesson manner as a way of introducing musical concepts.
Those who teach online lessons will find the music theory video series especially useful. I have a CSV file ready to go for the music theory video series but it hasn’t been published to quite yet. It should be ready later this week though. If you want to be notified when it’s ready, be sure and join my email list at PianoPantry.com/subscribe.
Next up are some holiday-themed videos both for Halloween and Christmas. Selections include pieces like Bach’s Toccata and Fugue played on a glass harp, Jarod Radnich playing the theme from Harry Potter, Dream of the Witches Sabbath from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an organ version of Sleigh Ride by Cameron Carpenter, and Straight No Chaser’s Version of the 12 Days of Christmas.
These are fun to use as either part of a lab time or even for group classes in the weeks surrounding the holidays. Have a video playing as students enter until everyone arrives, or include one as a class activity. Both sets of videos have corresponding listening guides available in the Piano Pantry shop with background information on pieces, reflection questions and more.
Lastly, you’ll find 8 sets of fun music videos organized into categories with a variety of themes like unique instruments, music history mashups, playing with popular tunes, the evolution of the piano, and more.
I can’t tell you how much I’ve heard from teachers over the years on how much their student enjoy and are inspired by these videos. Speaking of the word inspired… I have a little back story to tell and credit to give where credit is due.
Before I jump into the backstory, I wanted to take a moment to give a special thanks and shout-out to Rebecca Gebbink for supporting this podcast on Patreon. Rebecca also attended the Notion workshop Joy Morin and I put on last weekend and Rebecca, I have to say, I should have asked how to pronounce your last name while we were face to face. LOL. I hope I was close.
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So, I was trying to think back to how this whole video compilation got started. I believe it where sometime a year or two into my full-time piano studio so around 2012 or 2013. I launched my studio with a lesson format that had students coming in for 1 hour. They would start with a 30 minute lesson then move to a 30 minute computer lab while the next student had their lesson. I always needed 30 minutes to wrap up before leaving for the day so I didn’t mind have the last student doing lab while I cleaned up.
I can’t remember for sure, but I think I may have also tried it in a 60 minute rotation where two students entered at the same time and flip-flopped their lesson and lab time. I don’t recall having a preference one way or the other as far as scheduling goes.
Anyway, so there was only a couple of pre-designed music lab materials available so I decided to start putting together my own. By the way, all of the lab resources I created for my own students are available to you in the Piano Pantry shop.
I really wanted variety in lab activities and I came across a wonderful series by Leila Viss called Get Inspired. She had a series of maybe 10 episodes with inspirational videos – hence “Get Inspired” – and accompanying listening guides. I loved using those for my students lab time to the point that I wanted more so I started compiling my own videos.
I believe those have grown to more than 20 are still available on her website which I’ll link to in the show notes. The show note can also be accessed directly at PianoPantry.com/podcast/episode139.
A big thank you to Leila for inspiring me to create. I calculated and there are almost 200 videos total on my site between all the different series. I haven’t calculated Leila’s but I’m sure between the two we have to be in the ballpark of at least 300+ videos.
So, there you, the forth ICYMI episode of 2024.
Next week on the podcast, I’ll be having a chat with Elizabeth Davis Everhardt on using Google Classroom for lesson assignments. Elizabeth shared with us a little on this in some of our Tonara transition episodes and I was really intrigued as she’s the only person I know who uses Google Classroom as an Independent Teacher.
Like the recent Notion episodes, Elizabeth with also be giving a video tour which will be part of bonus content available to my Patreon community.
I invite you to follow Piano Pantry on Facebook at Piano Pantry or Instagram at Piano Pantry Amy. If you have something you would like to hear some time on the podcast, I’m always open to ideas. Drop me message on social media or through the contact form on the Piano Pantry website.
You never know – your idea might make it onto this podcast. My teacher friend Laurie Bender has gotten a couple of requests in. I love hearing your ideas.
Until next week everyone, happy teaching!
