Creative Piano Teaching Podcast

Thanks for reading TC273: What is a TopMusic Teacher? from Top Music Co. If you’re listening to this podcast, then you’ve probably accepted the calling to become a music teacher. But let me ask you, what does it really mean to be a TopMusic teacher? In this episode, we’re going to demystify what it means – we talk about who you are, why you’re here, why a TopMusic ... TC273: What is a TopMusic Teacher? The post TC273: What is a TopMusic Teacher? appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC272: Online Music Education Trends with Owen Grover of TrueFire Studios from Top Music Co. Do you use online platforms in your music studio? In this episode, I’ve invited Owen Grover, CEO of TrueFire Studios, to talk about trends in online music education. Education technology is going to stay and will also evolve in so many ways. Given that, we should now think of how we, as music educators, use ... TC272: Online Music Education Trends with Owen Grover of TrueFire Studios The post TC272: Online Music Education Trends with Owen Grover of TrueFire Studios appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC271: Turboboost Your Teaching with Nicola Cantan from Top Music Co. Today’s episode is all about Nicola Cantan’s Teacher Turboboost Retreat. We’re going to be sharing exactly what’s happening and how it’s different from every other online summit, retreat, or conference you’ve attended. If you’re tired of coming home from events with only a notebook full of notes and no actions taken, this 5-day retreat is ... TC271: Turboboost Your Teaching with Nicola Cantan The post TC271: Turboboost Your Teaching with Nicola Cantan appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC270: Tim Gets a Piano Lesson on Chopin and Scarlatti from Fred Karpoff from Top Music Co. Fred Karpoff and I have known each other for years. And I’ve always wanted to explore having him teach me because he has some different approaches to what I was taught in regard to technique, rotation, and thumb under. And today, we’re going to finally make that happen! In this episode, you’re going to hear ... TC270: Tim Gets a Piano Lesson on Chopin and Scarlatti from Fred Karpoff The post TC270: Tim Gets a Piano Lesson on Chopin and Scarlatti from Fred Karpoff appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC269: How to Sell Your Teaching Materials Online from Top Music Co. As a music teacher, you probably have some awesome teaching materials of your own. And we know that sometimes, it’s hard for us to build a strategy to create and sell those resources.  In this episode of the TopCast, we share ideas on how you can earn more money and free up time for yourself ... TC269: How to Sell Your Teaching Materials Online The post TC269: How to Sell Your Teaching Materials Online appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC268: Can PracticeSpace Motivate Your Students to Practice? with Robert Miller and Chris Mallett from Top Music Co. Do you find yourself dealing with the perennial problem of students not practising? In this episode, music teachers and business owners, Christopher Mallett and Robert Miller, will share one gamification app that can help get your students to practice more effectively and more often. Using decades worth of teaching experience, the duo designed and founded ... TC268: Can PracticeSpace Motivate Your Students to Practice? with Robert Miller and Chris Mallett The post TC268: Can PracticeSpace Motivate Your Students to Practice? with Robert Miller and Chris Mallett appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC267: What’s Your Studio Success Path for Teaching Music? from Top Music Co. Where do you want to bring your teaching studio in 2022? What are your goals and the steps you are taking to reach it? You might be thinking that you’re too busy to think about all of this but I’m here to tell you that in as little as 10 minutes of learning per day ... TC267: What’s Your Studio Success Path for Teaching Music? The post TC267: What’s Your Studio Success Path for Teaching Music? appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander from Top Music Co. How will future generations experience and value classical music? In this episode, world-renowned conductor Benjamin Zander of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra joins Tim to discuss the direction of classical music and the influence of the music teaching industry. He shares about speaking at Ted Talks, with anecdotes of Boston Philharmonic Symphony musicians and students of […] The post TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss from Top Music Co. Our good friend Leila Viss, known to many of you as an inspirational piano teacher and speaker, joins us to talk about overcoming grief through music. She shares her personal walk through this topic and how music helped her to process and heal. Leila also presents insights about how the body always keeps the score […] The post TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened from Top Music Co. As a teacher, it is so inevitable to get that one student who makes you rethink your role as a teacher – students who like teaching themselves on YouTube, doing rote learning, and who are just really out of the box. I’ve had that experience. And I know many teachers see this in their studios […] The post TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines from Top Music Co. Music brings out our student’s creativity and expressive potential. But when students experience frustration or trauma or stress, we often encounter different responses. What is the role that music teachers play in this situation? And how do we make ourselves aware of our actions? Stress and trauma can affect our students which then affects us […] The post TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael from Top Music Co. We are so excited to share the latest and biggest update at topmusic.co for 2021 – the launch of TopMusicGuitar. In this episode, Michael Gumley, Head of TopMusicGuitar, and I will be talking about how the membership and program can help teachers of all ages and stages become better at managing their teaching and business. […] The post TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes from Top Music Co. In this episode, Nicola Cantan takes over the podcast to introduce us to Melanie Bowes and the wonderful world of group teaching. Melanie has such an interesting perspective on group teaching. If you are absolutely sure that you never want to do group teaching, we encourage you to listen anyway. There’s definitely something here for […] The post TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board from Top Music Co. We all know the dread that can come with exams. Today, guests Mark and Nav from Music Teachers Board in the UK explain a potential way to make exams positive and a more pleasant experience for students. Mark and Nav break down the options that come with exams through MTB using technology, examiner training, and […] The post TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak from Top Music Co. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of my favorite online music notation softwares, Noteflight, with John Mylnczak. We’re going to unpack the Noteflight and SoundCheck softwares – its benefits, features, and how it can you can use it in your own studio. If you are looking for a music notation app […] The post TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson from Top Music Co. We’re joined this week by none other than one of the best-loved jazz educational composers today, Kevin Olson. Kevin brings a fresh perspective about composing the styles and sounds that inspire our students. He draws inspiration from Schumann to Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock in his compositions, which are frequently top choices for students since […] The post TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner from Top Music Co. Creating weekly lesson plans can be stressful during lessons, and can eat up your valuable planning time, too. Rosemarie Penner of The Unfinished Lesson shares how you can win back your time with making successful lesson plans for your students. She also shares some of the ways to manage online lesson plans, how to engage […] The post TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. Learn about the common guitar teacher mistakes, why most guitar teachers and guitar methods get things wrong, gamification ideas for guitars, important mindset shifts for guitar teachers and music teachers, and so much more. In the final episode of our three-part podcast series with our TopMusicPro Guitar head, Michael Gumley, we talk specifically about guitar […] The post TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. This episode is part two of a three-part podcast series with our TopMusicPro Guitar head, Michael Gumley. Michael has shared tons of wisdom in this episode on teaching students, setting goals, getting engagement, managing money and so much more. In fact, our conversation had so much goodness that I had to listen to it a […] The post TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

Thanks for reading TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. Unpack a whole lot of tips, bust some myths, and engage and motivate students with Michael Gumley and I in this three part podcast series.  Micael is the owner and head teacher at Melbourne Guitar Academy and head of the soon-to-launch TopMusicPro Guitar Program. Today we’re going to unpack his own story, how he came […] The post TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.