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The AMT Editorial Committee presents this new column, designed to recommend alternative ways to teach various aspects of music making. For each column, five music teachers will tell how they [...]

There is no doubt that the process of learning to play a musical instrument takes hours of solitary hard work and dedication to the task. The journey toward mastery is [...]

Any teacher of music, or of anything for that matter, must constantly strive for a balance between addressing the student's immediate problems, and affording him a deeper, more grounding experience. [...]

Introduction Consider the feelings you have when a performance has gone well and you've really connected with the audience. Successful at projecting your excitement and love of a composition to […]

This article was inspired by a request to be on a panel addressing the above topic for a local MTA meeting. My first concern is with what exactly we, mean [...]

The pianist must discover infinity in the vertical movement that makes up the small world of key descent. Because it's such a miniscule world--vertical movement of about three-eighths of an [...]

If you tell anyone you're a musician, the next words from them usually will be, 'Oh, I studied the piano (or clarinet, or guitar),' and then they will tell you [...]

One characteristic of a great teacher is the ability to be flexible in the approach used with students--finding 100 ways, as needed, to present the same concepts to different students. [...]