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The Top 3 Myths About Taking Piano Lessons Online

Like teachers and studio owners across the world, we are currently offering piano lessons online. While it hasn’t been an easy ride, we’re definitely learning a TON. We went from “carefully sanitized” in-person lessons to online lessons within about a day! As we’ve made this transition, we’ve been experimenting and problem-solving right along with our […]

Practice Pro Tip: Using the Metronome

Looking for a way to improve your piano practice? Here’s this week’s pro tip for you: use the metronome more often! Sometimes the metronome seems so annoying to practice with. Why listen to endless beeping when we’re trying to play beautiful music? Metronomes actually have a few benefits to them, and that is why we […]

Overcoming Obstacles in Piano Practice

Sometimes students feel, validly, that they simply cannot practice. This can be for a number of reasons. Not having time is a huge one. Others are losing books or being apart from our home piano. Overcoming obstacles like this can seem impossible! But you might have more options than you think when it comes to […]

What’s the Best Age to Start Piano Lessons?

This is a question we get asked a ton! Parents always want to know what is the best age to start piano. The bottom line is that there isn’t one right answer. The BEST age to start piano lessons will be different for every child. In this blog post, we shared some qualitative ways to […]

Faculty Post: Why Music?

One of my most influential professors taught me that we should always look at education from a womb to tomb approach. What can we teach young people (younger people than me) that will be most important to them throughout their lives? Going into college I took for granted that music was of one of those […]

How Piano Students Become Historians

How do piano students become historians? Well, that answer takes a little bit of background. Since graduating from BYU almost a year ago, I have felt something of a void in my life. I miss the learning and growth that was such a part of school. I miss the challenge of understanding complex subjects. I […]

What Learning to Knit Taught Me About Teaching Piano

I recently wrote a post about learning to play the ukulele and how that has influenced my piano teaching. This post has a similar feel to it. Since graduating with my Master’s degree last April, I’ve taken up several new hobbies because I now have time for such things, and it is interesting how these […]

Brigham L. Wins an iPad!

We recently posted about our students who competed in and were chosen as finalists for the Piano Marvel YouTube Competition. In addition to the monetary prizes awarded to the winners in each age group category, each contestant in the competition was also entered into a drawing for an iPad. One of our students to be […]

Happy World Piano Day 2019!

Did you know that today is World Piano Day?? For the last few years, musicians and music lovers around the world have celebrated on March 29th – the 88th day of the calendar year to correspond with the 88 keys of the piano! People do lots of things to celebrate the piano, from performing to […]

Bachfest: A Celebration of Bach’s 334th Birthday

The great Baroque composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, was born on March 21st, 1685, meaning that this past Thursday was his 334th birthday. For several years now, the Brigham Young University School of Music has celebrated his birthday by participating in the “Bach in the Subways” project. This movement began in 2010, when cellist Dale Henderson […]

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