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 […]

5 Ways to Encourage Piano Practice Over Christmas Break

Can you believe it’s halfway through December?? The holidays are FLYING by. And while we definitely believe in taking some time to relax and just celebrate, Christmas is also a great time to reinvigorate your child’s interest in piano lessons. Here are five ways you can encourage piano practice over Christmas break! 1. Enjoy lots […]

What a “Bad” Performance Taught Me About Practicing Piano

I’ve been practicing piano and performing for a lot of years (more years than most of our students have been alive!), so I’ve had a wide range of experiences when it comes to performing—from terrible to great and everything in between. While I’d say performing has almost always been a positive experience for me, sometimes things […]

How To Be an AWESOME Practice Partner

It’s a given that becoming a good piano player at any age takes practice. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that no matter how enthusiastic, a beginning student needs quite a bit of help to do it! A “practice partner” can be a parent, an older sibling, or even an advanced piano student who […]

Congratulations to our Honors Division Piano Students! Piano Competition Day at UVU!

It’s a piano Saturday in Utah Valley with multiple piano competitions happening today… I have been at our piano store & conservatory all day today enjoying the flow of talented piano families coming and going, to and from the Black Box Theater and the Small Recital Hall upstairs.  While I host the Utah Valley Festival […]

Piano Practice…"Family that practices together stays together!"

Piano Practice… “Family that practices together stays together”. A glimpse into the Larson family morning piano practice routine…

Cute little Louis… my morning practice partner.  He doesn’t stay in my lap the whole time, but when he does, we have 8 of the 9 in our family, all on the piano practicing at once.  Well to be fair, actually all 9 of us are at a piano at the same time each day, dad is […]