Author - Amy

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I’m heading to Boston a week from Sunday for a 2-week training seminar with GIML (Gordon Institute for Musical Learning) and Music Moves with Marilyn Lowe, the only piano method created around Music Learning Theory. Tim’s podcast with Marilyn was perfect timing! 

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I found this episode of Freakonomics Radio on the Internet quite interesting. It’s something we spend a lot of our lives on so why not learn a little more about how it works?

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My new favorite snack: Harvest Snaps Baked Lentil Bean Crisps: Onion Thyme. They totally taste like Funyons but are WAY healthier at 120 calories for 22 pieces. Yummo.

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A city nearby recently painted a crosswalk as piano keys to mark the location where the Packard Piano and Organ Company once stood. Let’s do more things like this in our communities!

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Traveling Piano Man Finds the Key to Life. There’re all kinds of great, spontaneous collaborative music-making going on over on his YouTube Channel. I especially enjoyed the Spontaneous Street Piano and Violin Duet in NYC.

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An 11-day event in San Francisco brings 12 piano’s into and positioned throughout the Botanical Gardens. Artists are scheduled to perform throughout the weekend but otherwise the pianos are available for the public to play throughout the week. How lovely!

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It’s like James Clear is talking to piano teachers regarding repertoire assignments in The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and Business. This quote says it all:

Tasks that are significantly below your current abilities are boring. Tasks that are significantly beyond your current abilities are discouraging. But tasks that are right on the border of success and failure are incredibly motivating to our human brains. We want nothing more than to master a skill just beyond our current horizon.

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40 little nuggets of cooking wisdom. Do a quick scan and remember just ONE as you go throughout the next week.

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Ah yes! Watermelon will be so much easier to eat when I cut it like this.

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Piano Street has hit 20,000 likes on Facebook and is giving away 1-month Gold membership vouchers. *Expires July 20

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There were no lessons in my studio this week. I have been using the much-needed time designing my new studio website, playing the piano, catching up on life, cooking to my hearts content, and doing some deep cleaning. I’m off to clean the carpets in my studio!

Until next week!

~Amy

Each Friday on this blog, I will share some of my favorite finds from the past week. I absorb a lot of content in Feedly so I’m looking forward to helping you as busy teachers see what’s worth checking out! You will find anything from teaching articles, podcasts, music news, recipes, favorite pieces, and more.  I promise to try to keep it at 10 items or less!

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Just this week I was talking to a mom on the phone about summer schedule, and she mentioned that their daughter had been practicing like crazy that week WITHOUT BEING ASKED, and they were thrilled. Here’s an idea for an “I caught you practicing without being asked” studio photo tree. Brilliant! This is going into my toolbox for a monthly challenge next year!

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What None of Us Has by Elissa Milne.

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MTNA (Music Teacher’s National Association) has a YouTube Channel and is posting replays of their webinars!

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Leila’s post on Wynn-Anne Rossi led me to embark on a series of clicks that landed me on J.W. Pepper’s YouTube Channel. They have a set of playlists called “The Inside Voice” with composers such as Rossi, Mark Hayes and more!

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Hugh Sung’s interview with Yo-Yo Ma.

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How did Joy know that I also have a hard time remembering to take my multivitamin? Her multivitamin dilemma inspired her thoughts On Establishing A Daily Habit [Piano Practice or Otherwise].

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