Practicing (general)

Question|Title Department Issue Authors
What is a parent's role in home practice? T/S/P 1990, 1-1 Cathy Albergo, Louise Goss, Kelly Boerman, Lisa Koch, Georgann Gasaway, Elaine Clark, Jacki Gatti, Erik B. Alexander, Brandon Bowersox, Rosalee Otto, Marian Woolum, Katie Koch, JoEllen DeVilbiss
How do you expect an intermediate student to practice a new piece? Home practice 1990, 1-1 Elvina Pearce, Frances Clark
How do you expect a beginner to practice at home after the first lesson? Home practice 1990, 1-2 Elvina Pearce, John T. O'Brien, Richard Chronister
What are your studio policies on home practice? Home practice 1990, 1-3 Ruth Chown, Harriet Green, Gayle Kowalchyk, Robert Vandall
Have you found a way for your students to practice sightplaying at home? Music Reading 1990, 1-3 Louise Guhl, Deborah Merrifield, Rosamond van der Linde, Rein van der Linde
What special practice techniques do your students use for performance preparation? Home practice 1990, 1-4 Donald Morelock, Mary Craig Powell
How do your students practice to assure secure memorizing? Home practice 1991, 2-1 E. Gregory Nagode, Louise Lepley
What do you like—and what do you not like—about practice? Home practice 1991, 2-2 Fifty piano students
How do you get your students off to a good start on a new piece? Home practice 1991, 2-3 Bruce Berr, Beth Hildebrand Jones
Describe your own home practice. Why do you do it? Home practice 1992, 3-1 Jane Magrath, Mary Ann Lenti, Marvin Blickenstaff
What are your main concerns about your students' home practice? Home practice 1992, 3-2 Elvina Pearce, Brenda Dillon, Marvin Blickenstaff, Joyce Cameron, Richard Chronister
What makes you (your child) want to practice? Motivation 1992, 3-2 Joyce Cameron with assistance from 25 students, parents, and teachers
How do you manage the time and commitment for piano study and practice? T/S/P 1992, 3-3 Cathy Albergo, with the assistance of 25 families
What is included in your weekly written assignments? Home practice 1992, 3-3 Craig L. Sale, Ted Cooper, Carol Winborne
What are your main concerns about your students' home practice? Part II Home practice 1992, 3-4 Elvina Pearce, Brenda Dillon, Marvin Blickenstaff, Joyce Cameron, Richard Chronister
What do national contest winners say about THEIR practice (and other things)? Home practice 1993, 4-1 Elvina Pearce with 21 contest winners
How do your students practice a new piece when you DON'T give them any help? Home practice 1993, 4-2 Georgann Gasaway, Mary Beth Molenaar, Sam Holland
What have you learned from listening to your own children's practice? Home practice 1993, 4-3 Rebecca Johnson, Ingrid Clarfield, James Lyke
As a college teacher, what would you like your incoming freshman students to know about how to practice? Home practice 1993, 4-4 Donald Walker, Karin Edwards, William Hughes
How do you practice rhythm?—A student survey. Rhythm 1993, 4-4 Marvin Blickenstaff
How do you use a sequencer to prepare your own practice/performance disks? Technology 1993, 4-4 Laurel Tiger, Andrea Stennett
What do parents have to say about their children's practice? Home practice 1994, 5-1 Twenty-seven parents
What suggestions do you give your students for how to practice ornaments? Home practice 1994, 5-2 Willard Palmer, Valery Lloyd-Watts, Carole Bigler, Mary Ann Lenti, Elvina Pearce
What suggestions would you give two students to ensure productive ensemble practice? Home practice 1994, 5-4 Jean Barr, Christopher Hepp, Gail Berenson
What have you learned from your own practice that has affected what and how you teach your students about practice? Home practice 1995, 6-1 Elvina Pearce, Alan Chow, Barbara English Maris
How can we find out more about our student's home practice? Part I Home practice 1995, 6-2 Elvina Pearce with teachers of the Preparatory Piano Division of North Central College
How can we find out more about our student's home practice? Part II Home practice 1995, 6-3 Jean Stackhouse, Rosalie Gjerde, Richard Chronister
How do you teach your students to vary their practice routines? Home practice 1995, 6-4 Carla Dean Day, James Goldsworthy, Bruce Berr
What basic approaches do you want your students to use when working out a new piece? Home practice 1996, 7-1 Elvina Pearce, Steve Betts, Kim Nagy, Elaine Smith, Eric Unruh, Stephen Zolper
How do you keep students interested in practicing a piece over an extended period of time? Home practice 1996, 7-2 William Phemister, Jeanine Jacobson, Janice Razaq
Practicing technique exercises—Why? When? How? Home practice 1996, 7-3 Alys Terrien-Queen, Carmen Shaw, Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield
I played it perfectly at home—why not here? Home practice 1996, 7-4 William Westney, Phyllis Lehrer, Gail Berenson
Should parents practice with their children? T/S/P 1997, 8-1 Jeanne Nelson, Katherine Glaser, Ellen Whelan-Wuest
What do you do in the lesson when the student has not practiced? Home practice 1997, 8-2 Craig Sale, Luise May, Nancy Liley
How do you manage a week's worth of practice? T/S/P 1997, 8-3 Kingley Day, Barbara Kudirka, LaVonne Kemple
What is musicianship and how do your students practice it? Home practice 1997, 8-3 Eleanor Carlson, Kathleen Murray, Janet Mann
How do your students practice memorizing? Home practice 1997, 8-4 Elvina Pearce
What practice steps would you assign for the Burgmuller Ballade prior to a recital? Home practice 1998, 9-1 Martha K. Smith, Carole Flatau, Steve Betts
What do you include on the student's assignment sheet for home practice? Home practice 1998, 9-2 Elvina Pearce, Beverly Lapp, Susan R. Osborne, Marilyn Crosland
Should young children practice each day in several short segments or one extended block of time? T/S/P 1998, 9-3 Janet Medley, Marci Koblenz Cornblath, Tali Cornblath
What steps would you assign for the first two weeks of practice on Kabalevsky's A Little Joke Home practice 1998, 9-3 Joyce Unger, Scott McBride Smith, Elvina Pearce
How would you ask a student to practice CPE Bach's Solfeggietto to achieve the tempo of quarter=88? Home practice 1998, 9-4 Kelley Benson, Helen Marlais, Judy Plagge
How do your students practice to prepare for a public performance? Home practice 1999, 10-1 Elvina Pearce, Gail Berenson, Martha Baker-Jordan, Burton Kaplan
How should I practice this piece at home? Home practice 1999, 10-2 Mary Venard, Joan Reist, Vicki Diefenbacher
What did you hear during your child's home practice last week? T/S/P 1999, 10-3 Nancy Halvey, Janice Vall, Rob Barlow
How do your students practice contrapuntal music? Home practice 1999, 10-3 Louis Nagel, Gloria Febro Grilk, Elizabeth Gutierrez
 What did you do in your practice this week?  T/S/P  1999, 10-4  Anna Facci, Chris Barlow, Byron Vall
What do you see when you watch your students practice? Home practice  1999, 10-4 Jennifer Merry, Elvina Pearce
What do you do when you watch your students practice? Part 2 Home practice   2000, 11-1 Beth Jones, Elvina Pearce
What do you do when a child doesn't practice? T/S/P   2000, 11-2 Barabara Kreader
How do your students practice to avoid/overcome common technical problems? Home practice  2000, 11-2 Sue Haug, Virginia Campbell, Kenneth Williams
How do you motivate students to want to practice? Adult Piano Study 2000, 11-2 Mary Tollefson
What do students have to say about their practice and lessons? Home practice 2000, 11-3 Elvina Pearce and Students
What do teachers have to say about their students' lessons and practice? Home practice 2001, 12-1 Teachers from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Western Australia
Should parents practice with their children? (Part One) T/S/P 2001, 12-3 Clare Barker, Catherine Herbener
How do your students practice to maintain contest and recital repertoire? Home practice 2001, 12-3 Martha Baker-Jordan, Alisa Delliquadri, Anna Harriette Foshee
Should parents practice with their children? (Part Two) T/S/P 2001, 12-4 Emily Ernst, Randy Ernst
What steps do you assign for pedal practice? Home practice 2001, 12-4 Rick Andrews, Gregory Nagode
How much hands-separate and slow practice do you assign, and when? Home practice 2002, 13-1 Linda Barker, Andrew Cooperstock, Margie Nelson
What new technologies do you suggest that your students incorporate into their practice? Technology 2002, 13-1 George Litterst
What technique exercises do your students do as warm-ups for practice? Home practice 2002, 13-2 Birgit Matzerath, Melanie Foster Taylor, Karen Zorn
Nelita True discusses practice ­ both her own and that of her students Home practice 2002, 13-3 Nelita True
Practice puzzlers - "What do you do when . . . ?"  Home practice 2002, 13-4 Nancy Breth, Ted Cooper, Steven Rosenfeld, Karen Kan-Walsh
Practice puzzlers - "What do you do when . . . ?" Part II Home practice 2003, 14-1 Nancy Breth, Ted Cooper, Steven Rosenfeld, Karen Kan-Walsh
What have you learned about how to practice? - an end-of-the-year student survey Home practice 2003, 14-2 Emily Morlan and students
What "away-from-the-piano" practice techniques do you use for young students? Technique 2003, 14-2 Neil Rutman, Timothy Schorr, Beverly Talley
What practice steps do you assign for early level repertoire? Home practice 2003, 14-4 Ruth Nordine Chown, Heidi Mayer, Craig Sale
What practice steps would you assign for the Burgmüller "Ballade" of Op. 100?  Home practice 2004, 15-1 Barb Hinnendael, Allison Hudak, Helen Marlais
What practice strategies would you assign for the "Fantasy Dance" from Op. 124 by Schumann? Home practice 2004, 15-2 Kelley Benson, Sue Haug, Kenneth Williams
How does your own piano practicing inform your piano teaching? Perspectives 2004, 15-2 Jeongwon Ham, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer
How do you get students to listen to themselves as they practice? Home practice 2004, 15-3 Scott Donald, William Hughes, Martha Baker-Jordan
A teachers' roundtable on solutions to common practice problems Home practice 2004, 15-4 Alisa Delliquadri, Nancy Liley, Judy Plagge, Karina Sysko, Camille Witos
What tips would you give for practicing trills, accompaniment patterns, and polyrhythms in the music of Bach, Haydn, and Chopin? Home practice 2005, 16-1 Rick Andrews, Karin Edwards, Robert Satterlee
What technical warm-ups do your early level students practice?  Home practice 2005, 16-2 Kathy Christian, Carole Flatau, Carmen Shaw
What are the pros and cons of parents supervising their children's practice?   Home practice 2005, 16-3 Marilyn C. Andersen, Nancy Breth, Carol Ann Ishman
What do college piano majors have to say about their piano study and practice? Home practice 2005, 16-4 Jessica Klett, Jessica Dean-Modaff, Emily Morlan, Tim Smile
What suggestions would you give for maintenance practice of C.P.E. Bach's "Solfeggietto?"  Home practice 2006, 17-1 Andrew Cooperstock, Janet Palmberg, Rebecca Shockley
What practice methods do you use to help students develop technical fluency? Technique 2006, 17-1 Rose Grace, Chiu-Ling Lin, Lucia Unrau
What makes practice perfect? Home practice 2006, 17-4 Elvina Pearce

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