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bitKlavier: Expanding Musicianship bit by bit

Thursday, 16 July 2020

Clavier Companion Clavier Companion - Content for Everyone 2020 Summer 2020

Jai Raman, a sixth-grade student at the New School for Music Study, was not excited to study Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999. When he began the piece with instructor Kristin Cahill, Jai was quite adamant that he had no desire to play the music of Bach, or any composer prior to Brubeck. Jai thrives on jazz and contempor...

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Inside the Studio with João Paulo Casarotti

Wednesday, 06 May 2020

Clavier Companion

Rilley is a five-year-old piano student in her first semester of piano lessons. We are using the Piano Safari Book 1 and are working on both rote and reading pieces (mostly with intervals of 2nds and 3rd). We used the Flashnote Derby app in order to introduce new notes as well as to reinforce notes she has already learned. In this clip, I introduce...

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Teaching Advanced Students in Uncertain Times

Wednesday, 06 May 2020

Andrew Cooperstock

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

Over the course of a few days in mid-March, the University of Colorado (CU),as many schools, quickly and suddenly transitioned to distance learning.All students who were able were asked to move home. All face-to-face engagements, including classes, private lessons, and committee meetings would move online. In short order, piano teachers everyw...

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The Role of Technology in This Time of Crisis

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

Linda Christensen

COVID19 Special Issue Clavier Companion

In this unprecedented time, we are finding that technology is crucial to our success, both on the student and teacher sides. Teachers who have not embraced technology in their studios are now finding that they must, and the learning curve can be overwhelming. Students who have not embraced using technolo...

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Teaching Via Video: How to Still be “YOU!”

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

David Cartledge

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

Our New World Our current pandemic has us all teaching in new ways. I have long thought of online learning as an opportunity, a way to indulge in creativity. It represents, however, a significant challenge when it becomes forced upon us in times of global strife. We are all accustomed to conventional in-person weekly studio teaching. In-p...

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Tools for Group Piano Online

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

Alejandro Cremaschi

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

The advent of COVID-19 has forced teachers to move group piano instruction online. While the online medium is not ideal to teach performance skills, there is a silver lining. Online learning does present many benefits; chief among them is the great degree of flexibility it gives students and teachers. Students can watch and read instructional ...

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Smiling Faces and Adapted Approaches in Online Lessons with Children

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

Sara Ernst

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

My recent lessons with elementary and intermediate students have been filled with music making and sweet moments of personal connection. I enjoyed a student's smile with a first lost tooth, another's excitement in showing off her scales with both hands, and exclamations of "I love this piece!" and "That's Treble G!" While these experience...

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STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE PIANO PEDAGOGY: CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERT TEACHERS USING THE VIDEO-CONFERENCING FORMAT

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

Diana Dumlavwalla

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

During a recent tour at the Bell Homestead in my home- town of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, I came across an interesting fact. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell set up a demonstration of his new invention, the telephone. He arranged for friends to play a melodeon and sing over a telephone line in order to show that sound could be transmitted ...

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The New Normal of Piano Teaching

Tuesday, 05 May 2020

Shana Kirk

Clavier Companion COVID19 Special Issue

All of us have spent the last several weeks adapting to the reality of a world where the COVID-19 pandemic has acutely changed nearly every part of our lives. For many piano teachers, it has been a time of sink-or-swim adaptation. Our teaching spaces...

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Striving for Excellence in Online Piano Pedagogy: Characteristics of Expert Teachers Using the Video-Conferencing Format

Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Diana Dumlavwalla

Digital-Only Content - Content for Everyone

During a recent tour at the Bell Homestead in my hometown of Brantford, Ontario, Canada, I came across an interesting fact. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell set up a demonstration of his new invention, the telephone. He arranged for friends to play a melodeon and sing over a telephone line in order to show that sound could be transmitted over the tel...

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Thirty Years of Teaching with Technology: Was it Worth It?

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

George Litterst

Clavier Companion 2020 Spring 2020

Now that we have entered the third decade of the twenty- first century, I find myself looking back at the previous three decades and wondering: Did technology deliver on its implied promises? With advances in music technology, do piano students learn music faster, enjoy their practice more, and perform with greater confidence? These are impor...

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Keep Your Cell Phone Out: Technology that Transforms Traditional Practicing and Teaching

Wednesday, 09 October 2019

Barbara Fast

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Piano Pedagogy's Towers of Technology

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Shana Kirk

Clavier Companion 2019 Autumn 2019

In many fields, it can be hard to find central figures who aren't men. In the niche of keyboard pedagogy technologies, however, many significant practices and developments were LARGELY pioneered by women. So, for this very special issue of the Piano Magazine, I am honored to celebrate a few of the women who paved the paths that led many of u...

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Illuminations of the Past, Innovations of the Future: Piano Playing and Building in the Twenty-first Century

Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Asher Armstrong

Clavier Companion 2019 Summer 2019

The advent and popularization of historical performance practice in recent years has led to some wonderful innovations in piano performance. In many circles, Mozart's original and intimate ideas of phrasing are now readily reinstated and relegitimized over more long-line Romantic approaches; familiarity with Bach's ornamentation and practices of ar...

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Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Monday, 20 May 2019

Sam Holland

Clavier Companion Summer 2019

A 2018 McKinsey report exploring the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work predicts that 50 million jobs in the United States will be eliminated as a result of robots and automation.1 Other reports suggest that, while the workforce will change substantively and irreversibly, AI will help humans work smarter and faster, includ...

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Spring 2019 Technology Review: Slack — A Time-Saving App for Collaborative Projects

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Sara Ernst

Clavier Companion Spring 2019

Music teachers who collaborate with other equally busy musicians, must find creative ways around full schedules and unusual working hours. Email, text message, and social media platforms are cumbersome when communicating about team teaching, shared events, and group organizations. Consider a new tool to facilitate shared correspondence: Slack...

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Spring 2019: Questions and Answers

Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Sam Holland

Clavier Companion 2019 Spring 2019

Q: I've read that robots and artificial intelligence will eliminate 50 million jobs in the US within the next few years. Are the robots coming for OUR jobs—even in the arts? Even in music and teaching? A: The source of the statistic you cite is a 2018 McKinsey report that explores the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technol...

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Teaching with Technology: New Tools For the Piano Studio

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Andrea McAlister

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Teaching with Technology: New Tools For the Piano Studio

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Andrea McAlister

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Libib Cataloging Service: Online Tool for the Pianist and Teacher

Monday, 22 October 2018

Ana Paula Machado Simões

Clavier Companion 2018 November 2018

Libib1 is a cloud cataloguing website and mobile app that helps to organize personal or small libraries of books, movies, music, or games. To use the service, one must create an account. Then, that library information will be stored in the cloud, where it can be synchronized between mobile devices&n...

bitKlavier: Expanding Musicianship bit by bit

Inside the Studio with João Paulo Casarotti

Teaching Advanced Students in Uncertain Times

The Role of Technology in This Time of Crisis

Teaching Via Video: How to Still be “YOU!”

Tools for Group Piano Online

Smiling Faces and Adapted Approaches in Online Lessons with Children

STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE IN ONLINE PIANO PEDAGOGY: CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERT TEACHERS USING THE VIDEO-CONFERENCING FORMAT

The New Normal of Piano Teaching

Striving for Excellence in Online Piano Pedagogy: Characteristics of Expert Teachers Using the Video-Conferencing Format

Thirty Years of Teaching with Technology: Was it Worth It?

Keep Your Cell Phone Out: Technology that Transforms Traditional Practicing and Teaching

Piano Pedagogy's Towers of Technology

Illuminations of the Past, Innovations of the Future: Piano Playing and Building in the Twenty-first Century

Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2019 Technology Review: Slack — A Time-Saving App for Collaborative Projects

Spring 2019: Questions and Answers

Teaching with Technology: New Tools For the Piano Studio

Teaching with Technology: New Tools For the Piano Studio

Libib Cataloging Service: Online Tool for the Pianist and Teacher

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