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The Piano Sensei Way is a podcast where I help piano teachers minimize stress and maximize success! I share my way of doing things, which in my opinion is the best way! It’s similar to Mr. Miyagi in the movie The Karate Kid where he tells Daniel to wax the car, sand the floor, and paint the fence. Daniel thought he was crazy just doing Mr. Miyagi’s chores for him. But Mr. Miyagi knew what he was doing! He was training Daniel’s muscle memory so he could defend himself! Similarly, I am so conf ...
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The Piano Parent Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things related to parenting a piano student. From practice tips to piano geography and musical terms, common studio policies to teacher and parent interviews, this is THE best resource to help you and your child make the most of piano lessons. Whether you are a knowledgeable musician or a complete novice, there is definitely something for you here.
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This podcast serves as a self-guided walking tour through the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Wallabout, focusing on the area's rich history of Black artists. The recorded version of the tour was produced by Femme Vocale and features the voice talents of Crystal Sershen and Dave Fennoy.
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Join award winning journalist Paula Faris as she explores what people are called to and why, equipping you to live the life you were meant for! These real, honest conversations will leave you encouraged, empowered (with takeaways!) and entertained. Paula will be joined each week by friends--some old, some new--who can talk about purpose, calling, fear, branching out and the risks of pursuing dreams from their own perspective. Guests include: Candace Cameron Bure, ESPN's Maria Taylor, Chris T ...
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I was interviewed by Rachel Ehring of the Topmusic Piano Podcast. The show is about creative resources, trends in piano pedagogy, and ways to grow your income. I share my journey from solo teaching to managing a team of instructors, detailing the challenges and rewards of expanding my studio. We discuss the innovative Benchmark Program for tracking…
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What do you do to encourage your students to compose or explore more creativity? Have you thought about incorporating more composition in your teaching? And what about yourself: have you tried composing, but struggled with ideas or execution? Today’s guest is Evan Hunter, a composer and piano teacher who loves storytelling! We talk about how storie…
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Do you want to include more improv in your lessons? Do you want students to be more comfortable with different keys and scales? How do you start introducing improvisation with a student so it’s not scary or intimidating? Today’s guest, Sean-David McGoran has a degree in jazz composition, plays piano, trumpet and saxophone, has performed in small gr…
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Do your students struggle to make progress? Do you have a hard time getting them to practice and be disciplined? Is it difficult to have goals and a sense of direction for them? Do you want your students to be more well-rounded and possess comprehensive piano skills? Piano Sensei to the rescue! I’ve created a system that provides a step-by-step gra…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is Holly Winn - Founder, Vortex Entertainment Group https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollycwinn https://hollycwinn.com/ If you want to support the podcast, don't forget to rate the podcast and give it a follow. It will help the pod…
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I was interviewed by Amit Weiner of the Rewind Podcast. His show's main focus is: How to Grow Your Music Career. He interviews musicians, composers, professors, and sound wizards, as they share their life stories and career decisions. We talk about some of my life story, how I got into music and became a piano teacher, and how I grew my studio. Rew…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is Clinton Pratt, Owner of Piano Sensei Clinton maintains a successful private studio in the Cincinnati, Ohio, and has over 22 years experience teaching students of all ages and skill levels. If you want to support the podcast…
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Dr. Evan Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Florida, joins us to share his ideas about how scientific studies and the Montessori learning model can be applied to the piano studio. We discuss extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, goals, rewards, deadlines, the power of a question, making things into a game, and teacher-centere…
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Amy Chaplin is a piano teaching entrepreneur — In addition to running her private studio, she is a blogger, podcaster, and presenter! Today we discuss three of her “big picture” studio evolutions: lesson formats, group class scheduling, and dabbling in other ventures. We talk about the motivation behind making changes and advice on evolving your st…
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Crystal Boyack is a leader in early childhood violin pedagogy and the best selling author of Wee Violin: Music for Young Violinists Preparatory to Twinkle. She currently teaches at the University of New Mexico’s Lab School and runs a private studio teaching Suzuki Violin and Music Together in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She loves spending her time gar…
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Crystal Boyack is a leader in early childhood violin pedagogy and the best selling author of Wee Violin: Music for Young Violinists Preparatory to Twinkle. She currently teaches at the University of New Mexico’s Lab School and runs a private studio teaching Suzuki Violin and Music Together in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She loves spending her time gar…
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How do you help parents motivate their children to practice? Is there such a thing as a parent who is too involved? Should parents sit in on lessons? Barbie Wong joins us to discuss how to educate and engage parents so their children will thrive in piano lessons! Lots of great tips and stories in this episode! 10 Ways to Inspire Kids to Make Music …
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Every Good Boy Deserves . . . ? We’re all familiar with these sayings, but maybe every good teacher should think about the usefulness of mnemonic devices for reading music. Samantha Coates is here to explain and demonstrate how these traditional teaching tools are confusing and a waste of time! Samantha Coates is an internationally regarded piano p…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is composer Hillel Teplitzki How to Elevate Your Video Game Music Career? Hillel Teplitzki is an Ophir Awards (Israeli Oscars) Nominated Composer best known for his work on the AAA video game PUBG Mobile and the multi-award-wi…
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Amy Immerman, Founder of Cincinnati Music Academy (a school that she helped grow to 750 students), joins the show to discuss motivation! Is it our job to motivate students? How can we help spark motivation? How can parental involvement help? We both talk about our own practicing and motivation growing up. Amy describes some engaging practice games,…
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With Jordan Dykstra - Film and chamber music composer and performer. Composer of the Oscar-winning film 20 Days in Mariupol. If you're new here in this podcast - Hi!I'm Amit Weiner, a composer for film and TV, winner of numerous awards, and I'm helping musicians all over the world to grow their music careers. Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLO…
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Prompted by a lively discussion in the Facebook Group Piano Teacher Central, I decided to host a live debate on YouTube! This is the recording of our “debate” on counting. The teachers who joined me were Mike Langer, Brian Lotter, Jeff Millis, Val Muller, Harrison Richter, and Jordan Thomas. It was a very thought-provoking discussion where we discu…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is composer and creative consultant Alex Pfeffer. http://risewithalex.com/ Alex is a seasoned composer from Hamburg with almost 20 years of experience in the trailer music and video game industry. Alex worked with notable comp…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is composer Federico Ferrandina Federico has been able to team up with artists of all kinds (world music stars Yasmin Levy and Omar Faruk Tekbilek, pop artists Sirsa Shekim and AZZURRA, rock collective Playing For Change, jazz…
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This is the second of a two-part interview. In the last episode, Jordan interviewed me about teacher pay, asking me about fair rates, negotiating, benefits, living wage, tuition rates, and teacher raises. In this second episode, Jordan asks me about other aspects of running a studio such as: What do you look for when hiring a teacher? Do you train …
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To shake things up, our guest, Jordan Thomas, interviews Clinton! It all started with Jordan’s FaceBook post in Piano Teacher Central about the feasibility of a multi-teacher studio business model as opposed to a solo studio. Jordan is a solo teacher and has been considering expanding, but has questions about how to make it work. I answered some of…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Today our guest is composer Jim Wilson. Jim has had several albums in the Billboard Top-20, two PBS specials and his music has been streamed by millions of fans around the globe. The book about Jim – “Tuned In: Memoirs of a Piano Man” is sche…
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Jake posted in the group “Piano Teacher Central” on Facebook about setting expectations for piano students in his studio. It was quite the lively discussion as there were strong and varying views on what kind of standards we should set, and what we should do if students don’t meet those expectations. Despite Jake being fairly new to piano teaching,…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Welcome to REWIND: The Musician’s Podcast, How to Grow Your Music Career! Today a very special guest: composer Joshua Carro - In-House Composer at Gearbox Software. The piece that we played was: [spaces for oblivion] by Joshua Carro https://w…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! What Is The "Riot Games Sound"? How do You Write Video game songs with 100 Million Downloads? With Composers Brendon Williams and Jason Walsh Today we have not one, but two very special guests: composers Brendon Williams and Jason Walsh. Ques…
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After I posted in the Piano Teacher Central Facebook group saying “slow, slow, slow to keep the flow, flow, flow,” Pablo Martinez shared it in his Instagram to his followers because he was just thinking the same thing! We linked up in this episode to share stories and ideas on effective practicing. We learn about Pablo’s journey and how he had to r…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! How to Compose Music for Commercials? With Composer Moshe Bonen, and co-host David Fridman In this episode, our guest is Moshe Bonen, and the co-host is David Fridman. Moshe Bonen is a composer, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist …
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Do your students want to take the summer off or want fewer lessons, resulting in reduced income for you? It can be frustrating, stressful, and depressing to have to struggle for income in the summer when your students drop off or take breaks. Don’t worry, The Piano Sensei Way has solved this problem! Not only can you maintain your income in the sum…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! What is Artlist, and how it changed the music industry and the world of content creators? Our guest today is Ori Winokur – Head of Music & Sounds at Artlist. In his current role as Head of Music & Sounds at Artlist, Ori skillfully leads a tea…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! What is The new Musician-Tech Artist? How can a musician become a startup entrepreneur? Our guest today is David Fridman- Experienced executive and serial entrepreneur with over 30 years in the tech industry, specializing in mentoring, teachi…
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I was so impressed when I watched Mikey Ashmore’s students in a studio music video he posted on Facebook this past Halloween. I contacted him and he agreed to come on the show to talk about how he came up with this idea and how he pulled it off! You’ve got to see this video and listen to my interview with him, it’s so fun! He walks us through the s…
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What's your best deflection technique? Sometimes I'll answer a question with another question to avoid giving an uncomfortable answer. What's your piano kid's best deflection technique? Do they try to memorize all their music to avoid sight reading? Do they blame the metronome when they aren't able to play along with it? Learn some common "artful d…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Julie Elven is a soundtrack vocalist, concert soloist and musician based in Munich, Germany. She has been a soloist for Hollywood composers James Newton Howard, Lorne Balfe, as well as for Hans Zimmer’s scoring company Bleeding Fingers Music.…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! How to become a composer and a global Media Consultant? What is a global Media Consultant And what is the best way to do networking in LA, and it is not what you think, it’s not music conferences! In this episode our guest is Global Media Con…
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Teaching theory is a must . . . and it’s even better in groups! It’s more fun, students get social activity, they gain encouragement and support from their peers, and you can increase your income! Based on the Cooperative Learning Theory, students learn faster in small groups. You can also maximize your effectiveness by teaching several students al…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more valuable insights on your music career! What is mastering? And why it is so important? Mixing vs. Mastering: What's the Difference? What are the differences between mastering on analog gear and with plugins? If you find these questions interesting, then this episode is just for you! REWIND: The Musi…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! What is the New Game Audio Program at Berklee College of Music? With Video Games Composer Noa Beazley What programs are used in game audio? What is middleware in gaming? How do you write Non-linear music for a video game? Welcome to another e…
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Is there only one way to finger scales? Do C, G, D, A, and E always start with left hand 54321? Zac Adamson says “no!” We discuss alternate scale fingerings and how they can help students (and you!) play with more natural ease and flow. During this episode, he demonstrates specific scales and their alternative fingerings on his piano and I try them…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more action items, and valuable insights on your music career! Can music composition be learned?How do you teach musical composition?Can you be a self taught composer? If you're interested in these question, you definitely want to listen to this episode. Welcome to REWIND: the Musician’s Podcast, where w…
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This is my recent interview on the Ultimate Music Teachers Productivity and Profitability Podcast with host Glory St. Germain! Topics include: my various roles as a music educator, improvisation, enforcing policies, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, how to make lessons engaging, retention, performance anxiety, and more! Glory's podcast Clinton's podcast…
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Visit HOW TO GROW YOUR MUSIC CAREER BLOG for more valuable insights on your music career! How do you write music for TV?How do I get my music on TV shows?How do I pitch my music to a TV show? If you're interested in these questions, then this episode is just for you! Welcome to another episode of REWIND, the podcast that will help you build and ele…
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