Balanced Music Teaching - How Do We Do It All

[@ColourfulKeys]

If you need more support, take our free piano lesson planning course here: colourfulkeys.ie/lessonplan. I'd love to hear what you teach every lesson and what you teach every now and again? Let me know in the comments below.

[@deborahbevan8226]

I begin my lessons with kiddos straight out of school with a deep sea fish you tube video. They calmly watch the fish swimming about and compose a backing track on black keys with peddle - works a treat calming them down

[@ColourfulKeys]

Beautiful! 😻

[@rldesigns27]

I love this! Thanks for the great idea!

[@nelsonpianostudio8990]

Thank you for this video, you were speaking directly to me to me😄. It makes so much sense to fit certain things in weekly and others occasionally 😊

[@ColourfulKeys]

You are so welcome!

[@papillonpiano8608]

That’s so good! Thank you

[@ColourfulKeys]

Glad you like it!

[@UltraLeetJ]

first comment! hehe. Thanks for this amazing channel. I somotimes forget some things during a lesson and find I have to move it to teach on another one.. and so its important to have a checklist.. and a plan. It also depends, students often help you remember what you did last time. Thanks for this though, brings new ideas for sure.

[@ColourfulKeys]

You're so welcome!

[@pieceofmind8256]

I find it virtually impossible to cover all these topics in my lessons. I work for a music hub, teaching in primary schools, and most of my lessons are just 20 minutes long! Additionally, I have 2 children of my own, plus 2 foster children, so even finding time to plan my lessons to the extent necessary to cover all of this content is just impossible and overwhelming! In order to have the time to plan for all of this, it would need to be my entire life, and not just my day job! Piano teachers have so much to cover, more than most other instruments I think!

[@ColourfulKeys]

With 20 minutes you definitely literally can’t do everything. If I were you, I would have a rotating warmup of things like aural, rhythm, theory games, etc. for the first 5 minutes. Then I’d spend the majority of the lesson on repertoire and then close with a quick improv. That would make it easy and quick to plan for a whole year of the rotating part at once.

[@pieceofmind8256]

@@ColourfulKeys Thanks for your advice. I think that's a good way to approach it and I will try to implement that somehow!

[@yaninaaliakhnovich1290]

I was Just thinking about this today! Especially about the first thing - I cannot do anything in one lesson, but what are the few most important things for weekly lessons ... Thank you very much for this video 🩷

[@ColourfulKeys]

Exactly! 💯