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Learning Styles
Private Music Teachers

Music Teachers: How to Teach All Learning Styles

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If you’re a teacher of any subject, you’re most likely familiar with the seven learning styles defined by a person’s cognitive ability, emotions, and environmental factors. But for private music teachers, how do you teach each learning style that will help the student learn at full capacity? Does everyone fit into only one learning category, and if so, should we only teach a student that way? Some experts now recognize that most people learn similarly […]

Different Personalities
Private Music Teachers

How To Teach Music To All Personalities!

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Being a teacher of any subject, in part, requires some psychology and knowing how a person thinks. There is no “one size fits all” since no two people think or learn alike. For this reason, I chose to be a private music teacher instead of in a classroom, as I love teaching to the individual and being flexible rather than a blanket teaching approach. However, this way of teaching can take more effort and knowledge.

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Private Music Teachers

How to Teach The Perfectionist Music Student

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As a private music teacher who has taught all personality types, the perfectionist is by far the most challenging. I would rather teach someone who is carefree and doesn’t mind making mistakes over a perfectionist. Many famous people have been perfectionists, from Leonardo da Vinci (a famous artist and inventor) to Steve Jobs (founder of Apple computers) and Elon Musk. Being a perfectionist can push humans to do their very best, so it’s not always

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Music Students and Parents, Private Music Teachers

Motivating the Unmotivated Music Student to Practice

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So your child or music student doesn’t practice regularly, at least without a fight? Join the club of millions of parents and music teachers who struggle to motivate music students to practice. But of course, this is no different than the struggle of training children in all aspects of life, from homework to brushing their teeth. Yet, somehow, we get children to do these things. Why is it so different when motivating a child to

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Music Students and Parents, Private Music Teachers

Part 3: Performance Practice

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You spend hours learning a song, but is there a difference in how you practice in the final stages before performing? The answer is yes! In my early years of performing, I never changed how I practiced before performing it. I continued to spot practice and fix errors, never playing the song as though I was performing it. Then I wondered why I was never happy with my performance! Here is the third part of

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