Skip to content
Teach With Diane

Teach With Diane

Supporting great piano teachers

Primary Menu
  • Ask Diane
  • Shop
  • My account
  • FAQ

Skills

Lesson 30 – Sight Reading with Charlie

Posted on February 25, 2020March 6, 2020 by admin

This lesson uses my Piano Music for Sight Reading – Preparatory Level book and features a cameo by Scruff the dog.

Posted In Hidy, Lesson videos, Seven and Eight Year Olds, Sight Reading, Sight Reading - Preparatory Level, Teaching Elementary Ages

March Song with Lucy — Scaffolding the lesson: Lesson 009

Posted on October 5, 2019October 11, 2019 by James Hopkin
Posted In Jumping, Late elementary, Lesson videos, March Song, Month Songs, Nine and Ten Year Olds, Practical Advice, Rote Teaching, Sight Reading, Teaching Elementary Ages

Gone Too Soon with Armaan: Lesson 012

Posted on September 26, 2019October 11, 2019 by James Hopkin
Posted In Dynamics, Gone Too Soon, Hand Position, Improvisation, Intermediate, Legato playing of intervals, Lesson videos, Milne, Pepperbox Jazz, Technique

Sight Reading Duos

Posted on July 23, 2019September 18, 2019 by Diane Hidy

It seems so obvious, but I’d never thought to do it. I had created pages and pages of Sight Reading Flashcards. But I’d never used them with more than one student at a time. At one of my group classes last Saturday, I had three girls about the same age of Continue Reading

Posted In Sight Reading

Ten Tips for Teaching Teens

Posted on July 23, 2019October 9, 2019 by Diane Hidy

Natalie is sprouting blackheads. Ethan feels a sudden need to be cool. Sophia was flat-chested last month but today is wearing the bra she definitely needs. Jason shot up four inches over the summer and none of his pants are long enough. Rich has the beginnings of dark fuzz on Continue Reading

Posted In Attention Grabbers, Little Peppers, Milne, Sight Reading, Teaching 101, Teaching Teens

I Couldn’t Read The Music

Posted on July 21, 2019September 18, 2019 by Diane Hidy

I snatched it down.  I’d spied it right away. SHEET MUSIC! My very first piece of music was poking its head out of my Christmas stocking.  The Spinning Song. It was the sheet music for THE Spinning Song.  Like the Golden Gate Bridge or my mother. It had always been. My Continue Reading

Posted In Real Life Stories, Sight Reading

Sight Reading is like Vaccination

Posted on July 21, 2019September 18, 2019 by Diane Hidy

When my son Bryce was six-years-old, my husband Tony took him to see the film Spirited Away in the theater. It clocked in at just over two hours in Japanese with English sub-titles. I thought it was a bad idea. Bryce couldn’t read yet. It was going to annoy everyone. As the Continue Reading

Posted In Practical Advice, Real Life Stories, Sight Reading, Skills

Breaking The Rules Of Engraving

Posted on July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 by Audrey Audrey

Music notation has problems. One of my frustrations with standard notation is the way that the beaming of eighth notes (quavers) sets up students to see things in groups. Seeing things in groups is lovely, but can cause a student to make rhythmic assumptions that are incorrect.  Example:  This passage Continue Reading

Posted In Last Day of Summer, Sight Reading, Whiteout
Copyright Diane Hidy
Scroll up