Keyboard Teaching Time: Surprising Insights for Busy Teachers
Keyboard Teaching Time: Surprising Insights for Busy Teachers
Amidst the whirlwind of a busy teaching schedule, optimizing our approach to keyboard teaching feels like searching for efficiency godsends. It’s this quest for the perfect strategy that led me, unexpectedly, to parallels in other pedagogical aids. I confess, the connection wasn't immediately obvious, beginning with my brief perusal of "Run Fast: How to Beat Your Best Time Every Time". While the fast-paced, self-improvement ethos seemed worlds away from patient piano pedagogy, a flicker of insight emerged: the underlying principle of constant, focused effort to surpass one's prior performance resonated with the goal of encouraging students to strive for incremental improvements in their keyboard skills. It's about that persistent push towards mastering the next sequence, note, or technique. This initial conceptual spark, though seemingly detached from our subject matter, served as a curious starting point.
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