Students' pages: indexes

All of my students, past and present, are welcome to submit material for this site. Contact me at hmpperth@cygnus.uwa.edu.au, PO Box 227, Claremont, WA 6910, or phone 08 9381 2308. Also, if you have your own web page you can have a reciprocal link here.

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Links to students' pages (outside of this website): Kim Tan: www.geocities.com/kimtan95/

Margaret's Additional Secrets for Success

1. Playing the piano involves the development and co-ordination of several skills. These include technique, good tone production, rhythm, theory, reading, playing by ear, other ear training, pedalling, phrasing, and many others. It might be too much to expect all students to be always working on all of these things, but certainly they should each be addressed at some point.
2. For every piece of music, at every lesson, write down in the lesson book the AIMS and METHODS for the week for that piece.
3. Have a regular theory assignment, each week or fortnight. I often use Dulcie Holland's series Master Your Theory, and John Thompson's three books, the Notespeller, Scalespeller and Chordspeller, with my own alterations.
4. Students need to succeed. This can be almost guaranteed if they are given more opportunities for success. For example, a student may be going slowly in reading, but succeeding very well in technique, or theory. Concentrating too much on reading in that case may cause the student to loose interest.
5. Sitting correctly is vital. Often the piano benches at home are the wrong height. A kitchen chair may have to be used instead, and be cut down or have a cushion place on it.
6. Pedalling is something that needs to be studied in its own right.

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