Teaching Diary - Practice of complex rhythm
by Swan C
January 14, 2025
How to deal with complex rhythmic patterns?
It is so common to encounter syncopation or irregular rhythm when practice, especially in pop music. R...
Teaching Diary - Accent
by Swan C
November 18, 2024
Students, especially the beginners, are usually being educated about the concept of strong and weak beat. For example, duple time is one strong be...
Teaching Diary - The importance of accompaniment part
by Swan C
September 9, 2024
Here we will talk about one detail which students are always not aware of -- accomplishment part.Â
In this video, I asked the boy to play the left...
Teaching Diary - Analysis and practice (2)
by Swan C
June 6, 2024
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...
Teaching Diary - The purpose of using sustain pedal
by Swan C
March 8, 2024
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...
Teaching Diary - Practice with our ears
by Swan C
December 10, 2023
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...
Tailor-made lesson materials
by Swan C
December 5, 2023
Having been discussing with our tutors, we found that a well-organised note for instrumental classes is very important. After teaching for several...
As a music teacher (2)
by Swan C
October 15, 2023
Music education is not only about inspiring students, but also about upgrading the teachers themselves.Â
It is usual that teachers do not know ever...
Course evaluation with our tutors
by Swan C
October 3, 2023
Besides evaluating students' progress in each course, we also do the self-reflection with our tutors in order to maintain the teaching quality. We...
Teaching Diary - Intensive practice
by Swan C
September 6, 2023
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 ...
Teaching Diary - Analysis and practice
by Swan C
July 18, 2023
The previous chapters mentioned how to practice efficiently and how to deal with technical problems. Here will talk about how to polish a piece.Â
M...
Teaching Diary - Another way to practice
by Swan C
April 14, 2023
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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