By John Gardner I’ve worked with this particular band director before. He teaches in a small school in a rural part of Indiana not blessed with an abundance of instrumental specialists to help his students with private lessons. A few…
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Safety, Transparency and Reputation when Coaching Students
By John Gardner For a short while during my earliest teen years, without concern about walking to and into his home, I studied piano with a single guy who lived a few blocks away. During high school freshman year, I took…
Tagged with: music lessons, private lessons, reputation, safety, teacher student relationships, Teaching, transparency, tutoring
Avoid mistakes choosing a contest solo
By John Gardner Sometimes I sit in the clarinet room during the upper level solos at Solo and Ensemble festival. There is a painful pattern of poor choices in music selection and interpretation, including the selection and performances of Sonata…
Solo contest judge’s #1 recommendation
By John Gardner Most participants in high school solo competitions are only in the performance room long enough for his/her performance and maybe for a couple friends’. They could learn so much by sitting and listening/observing for a while. During…
Dream, Focus, Follow and Never Give Up
By John Gardner Anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account can find entries like, “Ugh, have to work today” or “only 2 more hours ’til I get off”. And many of these posts are from teens that have just entered…
Three questions about private music studios
By John Gardner In preparation for a Skype interview by Andrew Ingkavet, a music teacher in the Greater New York area, I asked if he had any questions he wanted to share in advance — so that I could be especially prepared…
Example: Colleges Pay for those who Play WELL
“I’m paying for your college education one week at a time. By the time you graduate you should be good enough that someone will pay you to come to their school.”
Private lessons can be like paying for college…1 week at a time
By John Gardner A few years ago I was sitting in the driveway of my son’s trumpet teacher writing out a check. The teacher had requested going from a half hour lesson to an hour. I recall the teacher’s response…
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