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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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Performance at school (2)
by Swan C
Wohoho! It's Christmas time!
We have been working with this school for two months only. Recently, we prepared a Christmas showcase for them! It i...
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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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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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Our tutor team (violin)
by Swan C
James sir is one of our popular tutors in tutor team. He is punctual, responsible ad caring. Parents rely on him so much. He recommends our violin...
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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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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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Teaching Dairy- The meaning of practice (2)
by Swan C
In order to make the practice more effective, this student has to put down the bow and practice the accuracy and reaction of left hand as the note...
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Instrumental class at school (2)
by Swan C
The instrumental classes at school had been suspended almost a year due to COVID19. Some students said they missed the school activities so much. ...
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Teaching Diary - The meaning of practice (1)
by Swan C
Children usually do not know the meaning of "practice". They may think playing a piece once or several times means "they are practicing". Actuall...
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