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Teaching Diary - Key speed
by Swan C
This exercise is related to our activities introduced before, e.g. strength of finger and hand coordination. Key speed is one of the elements to c...
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Teaching Diary - Aural training
by Swan C
Besides the technique and posture, aural training is another "main course" in an instrumental lesson. Good sense of pitches can accelerate the pro...
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Teaching Diary - Variation of scales
by Swan C
Video exam is very common recently as face-to-face exam has been suspended for a while. In video exam, scales, sight-reading and aural are not req...
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Teaching Diary - Hand shape
by Swan C
Palm is like a home to support your fingers. If it collapses, the flexibility of fingers will be lowered. In order to let students know how to sup...
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Teaching Diary - Sense of aesthetics
by Swan C
Besides working so hard on the techniques, building the sense of aesthetics is very crucial in music education also.
"Do you usually listen to mus...
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Teaching Diary - Breathing
by Swan C
Students seldom notice their frequency of breathing when playing piano. They just pay so much attention on the notes and rhythms. But breathing is...
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Teaching Diary - Flexibility of hands
by Swan C
What's our new challenge today?
Here is an example to train our flexibility of hands. Students sometimes do not know how to play the note in stacc...
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Teaching Diary - Tension of finger
by Swan C
We have introduced few exercises to practice our coordination and flexibility of hands and fingers. In this chapter, we will introduce an exercise...
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Teaching Diary - Strength of finger
by Swan C
In the previous chapters, we shared some tips to train student's coordination and muscles. Here we are going to focus on fingers and share a simpl...
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Teaching Diary - Hand coordination challenge 2
by Swan C
There are different muscles and joints in our body. We need to get to know them and learn how to control them.
Many students do not know to relax ...
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As a music teacher
by Swan C
Some students said they want to be a music teacher, but they are afraid of not being experienced and qualified as a teacher at the same time. In f...
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Teaching Diary - The doubt about rhythm, tempo and metronome (2)
by Swan C
As mentioned before, there are three typical examples of students' problem about counting rhythm and using metronome. Please refer to Teaching Dia...
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