Teaching Diary - Key speed
by Swan C
September 23, 2022
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...
Teaching Diary - Aural training
by Swan C
August 25, 2022
Besides the technique and posture, aural training is another "main course" in an instrumental lesson. Good sense of pitches can accelerate the pro...
Teaching Diary - Variation of scales
by Swan C
July 18, 2022
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...
Teaching Diary - Hand shape
by Swan C
June 13, 2022
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...
Air (No. 3 from Suite) - Helen Hopekirk by Thomas Wong
by Swan C
April 11, 2022
This student has been playing violin for many years. He plays piano for leisure only and never practices any piano techniques. One day, his parent...
Teaching Diary - Sense of aesthetics
by Swan C
March 30, 2022
Besides working so hard on the techniques, building the sense of aesthetics is very crucial in music education also.Â
"Do you usually listen to mus...
Tsunami - Stephen Montague by James Cheung
by Swan C
March 17, 2022
James is an active, energetic and smart student, so I let him try this piece from 20th Century which is one of this pieces in grade 6 exam. His ch...
Teaching Diary - Breathing
by Swan C
March 6, 2022
Students seldom notice their frequency of breathing when playing piano. They just pay so much attention on the notes and rhythms. But breathing is...
Teaching Diary - Tension of finger
by Swan C
January 24, 2022
We have introduced few exercises to practice our coordination and flexibility of hands and fingers. In this chapter, we will introduce an exercise...
Teaching Diary - Strength of finger
by Swan C
December 5, 2021
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...
Student's performance in Hong Kong City Hall
by Swan C
November 8, 2021
Such a great opportunity for my students to perform in public! They never tried before, that's why they were so nervous, but excited to perform o...
Teaching Diary - Hand coordination challenge 2
by Swan C
October 10, 2021
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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