This course is designed to help your students creativise classical pieces in no time. Creative skills don’t need to be taught in isolation from our students’ pieces. We can take repertoire from the classics and make it a creative activity instead of segmenting those elements off. So if you’ve been looking for a way to…
Grade 1
Practice Plays
We all know that while regular practice is great, it definitely doesn’t make perfect. There’s a lot more to progress than just putting in the time. Get your students excited about practising effectively and efficiently with these fun, animal-themed Practice Plays. How to Play These cards can be drawn at random to keep practice fresh…
Smush It!
Some games have players identify intervals on the staff, while others focus on intervals on the keys. Still others reinforce the written names of the intervals. In Smush It!, players have to combine their knowledge of all 3. This game is a fast-paced way for students to associate the interval name (4th, 5th, or 6th)…
Ready to Roll
Sometimes a quick quiz-style game is what’s needed to run through a concept, and that’s exactly what you get with Ready to Roll. Whether your late beginner students are working on note names, intervals or symbols, this game has it all! Try opening a lesson with this rapid review of note names, or use fly…
Performance Party Workshop Plan
The Performance Party workshop plan is designed to help your students gain confidence and be prepared for recitals, or any performance opportunity. Watch the video below for a step-by-step walk-through. How to Use This lesson plan is designed to suit a group of 4-10 students at a variety of levels. These activities will work best…
9 Week But-the-Pieces Plan: Interval Immersion
Follow these lesson plans and, after 9 weeks, your students will have the ability to play and recognise intervals of up to an octave. Each week works on a particular interval through improvisation, a game and a composing exercise so that they get a practical sense of how the intervals feel on the piano while…
One Minute Warmups
We’ve all been there: Students rush into the studio fresh out of swim practice, bursting with energy and bouncing off the walls (or from school, or a birthday party, or…) You can spend the first 15 minutes of the lesson trying to force this bundle of energy to calm down so that progress can be…
Time Tracks
Time Tracks helps beginners and late beginners see how note values fit within the metric counting structure of simple time signatures. Players move their tokens along the counts according to the value of the note on their card. Who can make good time as they head toward the double bar lines? How to Play Each…
Online from the Outset
The idea of teaching piano lessons to newbies online from the very beginning can be intimidating. But with Online from the Outset, you’ll be excited to tackle the challenge. This resource contains 4 weeks of no-book, step-by-step lesson plans complete with brand new rote pieces to teach. You’ll even have listening tracks to assign as…
Chopsticks & Plasticine
Ledger lines are a useful tool, but beginner piano students won’t always see them that way. The best way to help our students see how necessary and valuable these little lines are is to use activities like this one to explore the staff with them, rather than just explaining it. So print off these sheets,…