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Teaching Diary - Accent
by Swan C
Students, especially the beginners, are usually being educated about the concept of strong and weak beat. For example, duple time is one strong be...
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Teaching Diary - The importance of accompaniment part
by Swan C
Here we will talk about one detail which students are always not aware of -- accomplishment part.
In this video, I asked the boy to play the left...
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Teaching Diary - Analysis and practice (2)
by Swan C
Students always forget the melodic shape when practice. If we take a look at the phrase structure and practice one by one precisely, you will have...
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Teaching Diary - The purpose of using sustain pedal
by Swan C
The timing of using sustain pedal is very abstract to students as the pedal marking is not always clearly shown on the score. It depends on the re...
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Teaching Diary - Practice with our ears
by Swan C
It is so important to practice the intonation, rather than just a note. In order to practice with our ears, we need to be so familiar with the pie...
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Tailor-made lesson materials
by Swan C
Having been discussing with our tutors, we found that a well-organised note for instrumental classes is very important. After teaching for several...
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As a music teacher (2)
by Swan C
Music education is not only about inspiring students, but also about upgrading the teachers themselves.
It is usual that teachers do not know ever...
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Course evaluation with our tutors
by Swan C
Besides evaluating students' progress in each course, we also do the self-reflection with our tutors in order to maintain the teaching quality. We...
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Teaching Diary - Intensive practice
by Swan C
There are increasing numbers of adult students recently. It is not easy for them to learn something new as they have to manage their work, family ...
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Teaching Diary - Analysis and practice
by Swan C
The previous chapters mentioned how to practice efficiently and how to deal with technical problems. Here will talk about how to polish a piece.
M...
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Teaching Diary - Another way to practice
by Swan C
I am sure many students, no matter what instruments they are learning, encounter bottlenecks when it comes to a long phrase/complex rhythm/difficu...
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Teaching Diary - Independence of fingers
by Swan C
This is an advanced version of previous exercise. In the previous chapter, we talked about how to train our hand shape by using erasers. In this e...
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