Fourth finger on B-flat

the long version

Presents real-world solutions and teaching approaches that piano teachers can readily use in their studios. This user-friendly and personable text incorporates the basics of establishing a studio and then moves on to discussions of how students musically develop and learn, using ideas from educational psychology. The book includes: specific ideas to use for your first interview/audition with a student; A comprehensive overview of musical development; guidelines for teaching students with special needs, talented, ADHD; unique musical ways of knowing; 10 easy steps to musical problem-solving; Teaching strategies to mesh with different learning styles; Ideas to organize a systematic approach to scale and technical development; practice techniques that include student self-assessment; creative projects for the studio. Accompanying CD-ROM includes bonus supplementary files.