Friday Finds #100 and Giveaway Winner

The day has arrived. Piano Pantry has officially posted 100 weeks of Friday Finds since first launching in March of 2016!

In celebration of this milestone, I posted a giveaway last week featuring an item that was a part of the Friday Find series. Thanks to all who entered to win Note Speed!

The winner (randomly selected by Rafflecopter’s generator) is Lynelle Vogel, who commented:

My older kids love to play NinGenius on iPads to work on note names.

Congratulations! I will be contacting to get your shipping details.

Friday Finds Breather

Before we proceed with this top 100 list, I just want to thank you for your excitement and energy over these weekly finds over the past 2+ years. You have been so enthusiastic and encouraging with so many stating it’s the one post/email they’re sure to catch every week.

That being said, I’m going to take a brief hiatus from this weekly post. I promise it will be brief and the series will return as I love writing it as much as you seem to love reading them.

There’s a lot going on in life right now – one of which many of you are aware. My husband and I are in the final stages of building a house (literally). We are (well, mostly he is) doing the majority of it on our own. We’re in the home stretch and I really need to let something go for the time being.

Promise me you’ll jump back in when I pick back up?

Awesome, thanks!

Friday Finds Top 100

I have gone back through every single F.F. post I’ve written to pull the best of the best for you here. With approximately eight finds per week, that’s 800 finds I’ve scoured.

How did I choose? First, anything that was specifically commented on by a reader was included. From there, I simply focused on posts that have affected me the most, have stuck in my memory, made an impact, or that I still use or find fascinating even today.

I’ve broken them down into 11 categories so if you prefer to check out a specific category of items you can jump around. Enjoy!

Productivity, Tools, and Organization
On Teaching
Piano Books and Music
Thought-Provoking Articles
Learning from Other Things in Life
Fun Music and Teaching Stuff
Foodie Fun
Recipes
Personal
Podcasts
Miscellaneous Fascinating Things

Productivity, Tools, and Organization

1. Feedly for following all your favorite websites in one location (also used by Seth Godin!)

2. LastPass password manager (also used by Seth Godin!)

3. Tutorial video for Canva for music teachers | Rosemarie Penner

4. How to Store and Organize Teaching Games and How I Print, Trim, Laminate, and Assemble Piano Teaching Games | Nicola Canton

5. Why I Switched To Automatic Payments… Finally! | The Free IMT (This post talks about the app I am now using for automatic payments)

6. How to Make Effective and Efficient Lesson Notes in Google Docs | Leila Viss

7. A Few Simple Tools to Hook Up Your iPad to the TV | Rosemarie Penner

8. Google Drive: How to Create Folders & Add Documents | Rosemarie Penner

9. Instagram Stories Tutorial

On Teaching

10. Top 10 tips for tackling and transforming piano technique

11. Jennifer Nicole Campbell’s Music Musings on “Claire de lune”

12. Ten things I want my teen piano students to know before they quit lessons

13. The Power of Practice: 7 Practice Hats for Parents | The Curious Piano Teachers

14. Piano Safari’s Hanon Potato Variations

15. New Teaching Tool: Bubble Wrap!

16. The possibility of making a healthy income doing what you love as a piano teacher | Joy Morin

17. Unstructured Practice: Giving Students Time to Doodle | Tim Topham

18. “What Shall We Do Next?” | Paul Harris

19. Repertoire Rules | Elissa Milne

20. Twelve Tips for Teaching Tricky Personalities | Tracy Selle

21. The Do’s and Dont’s of Talking to Struggling Piano Students | Teach Piano Today

22. Two Piano Teaching Duets for Burgmüller’s Op. 100 | Chad Twedt

23. The Ultimate Guide to left Hand Piano Styles & Patterns | Tim Topham

24. Decorating the Cake: Helping Piano Students Play With Expression and Heart | Joy Morin

25. We’re Not Robots: Helping Young Piano Students Get “Beyond The Notes” | Joy Morin

Piano Books and Music

26. Best Piano Solos by Phillip Keveren

27. The Piano Student’s Hymnal

28. Simple Songs: Easiest Piano Songs

29. Nocturne by Paul Sheftel

30. Chord Town Christmas by Anne Crosby Gaudet

31. Leila’s arrangement of It Is Well With My Soul

32. Free download of Gordon’s Quick and Easy Introductions

33. How to Think Music by Harriet Ayer Seymour

34. Sunday Morning Blended Worship by Victor Labenske

35. Journey Through the Classics by Jennifer Linn

Thought-Provoking Articles

36. A Thousand Rivers: What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning | Carol Black

37. As one reader stated, this article from Anne Lamott, How to Find Time, is gold!

38. The Deeper Reason Why We Can’t Remember People’s Names | Becoming Minimalist

39. How (and Why) Giving Students Choices, Can Dramatically Improve Learning | Bulletproof Musician

40. Ethical Concerns with Online Conference | Chad Twedt

41. How Reading Old Books Gives Us New Perspective | Michael Hyatt

42. What We Can Learn From Considering One’s Ideal Piano Teacher Life | Joy Morin

43. On Establishing A Daily Habit (Practicing the Piano or Otherwise) | Joy Morin

44. The Right to be Ridiculous | The Rabbit Room

45. What if All I Want is a Mediocre Life? | No Sidebar

46. Every article I share by James Clear I find thought-provoking. Since I couldn’t choose, I decided to cheat and just list all the ones I shared and count his articles as one item 🙂