Dear Reader –
It’s August - which means the calm before the September storm…
The Big Thing
My website just got a spring (summer) clean - and it’s a bit like updating your CV - one of these moments when you realise that there has been quite a bit happening over the last few years!
Please go check it out - there are loads of sparkling new pics and videos, and all the up-to-date information you need on all the various bits and pieces I get up to.
It is such an exciting few months ahead - with Theme Night #32 in Sligo and Ballyshannon, a brand-new Teenage Theme Night programme, and loads of new plans for the upcoming piano teaching term.
All the info you need is right here…
Where else but Sligo?
My teaching team and I learned lots from all the piano lessons we taught last year, but there was one lesson that stood out above the rest.
And that is…that the biggest factor in determining whether a child practises the piano or not is….wait for it…the song they’re learning at the time. If they like it they practise, if they don’t…well then that’s where the fights can start!
My colleagues and I are always clear that we are happy to write out any song that a student wishes to learn, to a level that suits them. However, it’s easier for students to have all those songs laid out in one place, and so this year, instead of having 10 song choices in each of our eight levels, we will have 20.
More choice = more practice = more fun = more improvement.
You can read more about my teaching philosophy here, and if you or anyone you know would like to either take up or get back into the piano this year, we are currently enrolling for September lessons, so please send an email to pianowithkieran@gmail.com today!
What’s New?
TEENAGE THEME NIGHT #29 VIDS: Have a look at all the videos from May’s show here.
RICK BEATO: Almost 4M people subscribe to his YouTube channel, so that means there are over 8B who don’t! If you’re one of those, here’s just one of Rick Beato’s many fantastic music videos - in this case explaining what makes the 30-second Beatles song ‘The End’ so good.
UNIFORMITY AND JUXTAPOSITION: So clever! A quick look at 12 artists who use various mixtures of happiness and sadness to get their message across.
Finally…
Alannah and Annie from May’s Teenage Theme Night #29.
Two fantastic individual voices…but just wait for the sound they create together...
Till next time - Kieran.
