Rhythm Dept.

Question|Title Issue Authors
What is your first concern when teaching rhythm to beginners? (also see Winter 2001) 1990, 1-1 Marvin Blickenstaff, Joanne Smith, Barbara Wasson, Janell Whitbby, Jane Magrath, Suzanne Guy, Barbara English Maris
How do you foster the sense of pulse with your intermediate students? 1990, 1-2 Marvin Blickenstaff, Vivian Miller Dula, Joan Reist, Louise Bianchi, Joyce Grill, Carol Winborne, Carmen Shaw
What have you found to be the best way to teach eighth notes? 1990, 1-3 Annette Conklin, Jill Christian, Kay Moore, Karen Koch
What off-the-bench activities have you found most useful with elementary students? 1990, 1-4 Rick Andrews. LeAnn House, Diana Bearmon, Jean Stackhouse
What kind of counting do you use with beginners . . . and why? 1991, 2-1 Rebecca Shockley, Sylvia Coats, Sandra L. Camp
How do you teach dotted rhythms? 1991, 2-2 Janet Palmberg Lyman, Nancy Bachus, Kathleen Murray
Why do you use unit counting with your beginners? When and why do you teach meter counting? 1991, 2-3 Terry Weber, Becky Corley, Donna Sanders, Elaine Bingenheimer
How do you use the metronome in your teaching of early-level students? 1991, 2-4 Margaret Strong, Jane Bastien, M'Lou Dietzer, Natalie Matovinovic, Virginia Koun
Why do you use meter counting with your beginners? 1992, 3-1 Linda Wotring, Mary Eunice Troy, John T. O'Brien
How do you go about correcting rhythmic inaccuracies in pieces which have reached performance level? 1992, 3-2 Marsha Woldersberger, Frances Larimer, Marilyn True, Wilma Machover
When and how do you introduce the first rubato? 1992, 3-3 Jean Candlish, Miriam Byler, Sue Shannon, Mary Reiff, Boyce Reid Sher
How do you teach 6/8 meter? 1992, 3-4 Lynn Kitts, Ellen Reithmaier and E. Gregory Nagode, Karen Bartman
How are Dalcroze Eurhythmics concepts integrated into the piano lesson? 1993, 4-1 Anne Farber
When does rhythmic training become training for interpretation? 1993, 4-2 Marvin Blickenstaff
How do you teach a piece containing both duplet and triplet eighths? 1993, 4-3 Elizabeth Caluda, Mary Maddox, Marilyn Witcher, Nancy Dyes
How do you practice rhythm?—A student survey. 1993, 4-4 Marvin Blickenstaff
How do you use computer-assisted instruction to teach rhythm in your studio? 1994, 5-1 Virginia Koun, Virginia Campbell, Verne Campbell
What is your opinion of counting aloud and how do you encourage this activity at home? 1994, 5-2 Andrew Camacho, Alice Heyer, Jean Fox, Myrna Lyons, Polly Kuelbs
How do you teach students to feel tempo before beginning to play? 1994, 5-3 Debra Ronning, Karen Zorn, Martha Smith, Sharon Lohse Kunitz
How do you teach downbeats? 1994, 5-4 Elaine Holmes, Yat-Yee Chong, Arlene Steffen, Yu-Jane Yang
How do you teach your students not to hesitate at a bar line? 1995, 6-1 Beverly Lapp, Connie Jones, Shann Wood, Ruth Rotondi, Steve Betts
How do you teach cut time (alla breve)? 1995, 6-2 Martha K. Smith, James Goldsworthy, Laura Vickers.
Do you continue "pure rhythm" activities into the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years? 1995, 6-3 Ann Milliman Gipson, Enid Ewing Hickman, Nancy Hallsted, Michelle Conda.
What rhythm activities are appropriate for the preschooler in preparation for piano lessons? 1995, 6-4 Rhoda Rabin
How do you teach your students to keep a steady tempo in the first movement of Mozart's K. 545? 1996, 7-1 Marvin Blickenstaff, Barbara Clyde, Janice Meyer.
What do you do when students count with their hands, arms, and elbows? 1996, 7-2 Kathryn Rood, Nancy Nelson, John Weems.
How do you teach triplet subdivisions? 1996, 7-3 Beverly K. Lapp, Cheryl Everett, Richard Chronister.
Do your students hear their newly assigned repertoire before they begin to practice? 1996, 7-4 Carol E. Ratzlaf, Judy Warburton, Jennifer Lim
How do you teach two-against-three? 1997, 8-1 Marvin Blickenstaff, Naomi Oliphant, Constance Kotis
How does a student get ready to use the metronome? Part 1 1997, 8-2 Bruce Berr
How does a student get ready to use the metronome? Part II 1997, 8-3 Bruce Berr
How do you get students to really play the rests in their pieces? 1997, 8-4 Linda Poquette, Steven Rosenfeld, Mary Jane Clarke
What aspects of teaching rhythm are the most difficult for your intern teachers? 1998, 9-1 Kathleen Murray, Martha Baker, Marcia Bosits Norrman, Victoria McArthur
How is your teaching of rhythm affected by your own earliest rhythm learning? 1998, 9-2 Ludmila Lazar
When do you have your students STOP counting out loud? 1998, 9-3 Mary Brostrom Bloom, Sandra Stewart
How is rhythm taught in the other arts? 1998, 9-4 Bruce Berr, Rick Ziebarth
What are some effective ways to teach eighth notes? 1999, 10-1 Annette Conklin, Stephanie Myers
How do you teach the rhythm challenge in Grieg's Nocturne, Op. 54, No. 4? 1999, 10-2 Camille Witos, Robyn Gibson
Teaching skills: What does PATIENCE & PERSISTENCE have to do with it? 1999, 10-3 Bruce Berr
 How do you teach the difference between counting rhythm and musical rhythm? 1999, 10-4 Jennifer Merry, Richard Chronister
How do you teach the rhythm challenges in Beethoven's Sonata in G, Op. 49, #2, 1st movement? 2000, 11-1 Helen Marlais, Janet Hickey
When and how do you introduce rubato? 2000, 11-2 Marvin Blickenstaff, Christos Tsitsaros, Elizabeth Gutierrez
How does your experience with rhythm help you in the process of teaching? 2000, 11-3 Steve Betts, Kathleen Murray
How do you teach dance rhythms to early-level students? 2001, 12-1 Belinda Green, Kathleen Ann Theisen
How do you teach the written-in improvisatory sections in repertoire? 2001, 12-2 Louis Nagel, Bruce Berr
How do you teach cantabile playing? How does it affect students' rhythm? 2001, 12-3 Craig Sale
What is your first concern when teaching rhythm to beginners? (also see Spring 1990) 2001, 12-4 Lyn Bronson, Michelle Seibert
What are some rhythmic pieces you like to teach and why? 2002, 13-1 Ingrid J. Clarfield, Ivan Frazier, Linda Meyer Kazmirski
How do you introduce sixteenth notes? 2002, 13-2 Naomi Oliphant, Marilyn Slenk
How do you teach the larger musical beat to elementary students?  2002, 13-3 Barbara Fast, Julia Tsien
How does learning jazz enhance a person's rhythm? - a Conversation with Rob Parton. Part I  2002, 13-4 Rob Parton, Bruce Berr
How does learning jazz enhance a person's rhythm? - a Conversation with Rob Parton. Part II 2003, 14-1 Rob Parton, Bruce Berr
How do you teach ritardando/fermata/à tempo? 2003, 14-2 Helen S. Chao-Casano, Anne Marie Olson
How do you teach the rhythmic vitality and accuracy in Kabalevsky's "Sonatina in A Minor, Op. 27, #18?"  2003, 14-3 Audrey F. Evans, Maggie Charnon, Bruce Berr
How are timing and rhythm different from one another? 2003, 14-4 Robert M. Abramson
How is rhythm enhanced by solid technique skills?  2004, 15-1 Scott McBride Smith, Bruce Berr
How does teaching in small groups help students' rhythmic development?  2004, 15-2 Paula J. McLaughlin
How do you help students achieve rhythmic continuity in slow pieces without sounding mechanical?  2004, 15-3 Linda Barker, Sophia Gilmson
What is "Shakespearean Counting" and how do you use it in your teaching? 2004, 15-4 Deborah Price
How has playing another instrument affected your teaching of rhythm at the piano?  2005, 16-1 Joanna Grace, Jennifer Merry, Anne Marie Olson
What aspects of teaching rhythm are the most difficult for your intern teachers? 2005, 16-2 Cynthia Benson, Barbara Fast, Kenneth T. Williams
How do you teach the rhythm of "Moonlight Mood" from William Gillock's Lyric Preludes? 2005, 16-3 Mary Jane Clarke, Belinda Green
How do you teach the rhythm challenges of the Chopin "Prelude in E Minor?" 2005, 16-4 Maggie Charnon, Evan Hirsch
What interesting situations have come up recently in your teaching of rhythm?  2006, 17-1 Bruce Berr
What are some rhythmic pieces you like to teach and why? 2006, 17-2 Helen Casano, Susan Osborn
How do you help students who chronically have difficulty playing with rhythmic accuracy and expression? 2006, 17-3 Susanne Baker, Steve Betts
How do you introduce and reinforce syncopation? 2006, 17-4 Carol Klose, Jerome Reed

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