MasterClass
Group Lessons
Tips and Tricks
for Building Confidence
4 -6 Students
30-45 minutes
Teaching Demo | Student Demo
Positive Praise | Constructive Comments
Practice Strategies
MasterClass Group Lessons
are instructional group meetings
– students of different levels
– critique of selected repertoire
– incorporation of student demo with a quarterly Practice Strategy
This instructional opportunity provides students with exposure to
more repertoire and opportunities to share their pieces with their piano friends.
Nuts and Bolts
MasterClass
December Holiday Practice Strategy
ELABORATION | Nuts and Bolts
“Explain and describe ideas with many details.”
Nuts and Bolts Practice Strategies
– Get under the hood of a piece.
Discuss all the elements:
form, key, chord progressions, dynamics, mood changes and any other details.
– Analyze the nuts and bolts
to boost the understanding of concepts
and lock in memory anchors
when retrieving a piece or definition of a term
from the memory bank