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The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers

Practical and proven tips, ideas and advice for private music teachers. Listen in to improve your instrumental or vocal music studio business and find that oh-so-elusive feeling of balance in your life.

Welcome to The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast! This is the show for you if you’re an instrumental or vocal music teacher that wants friendly, creative and accessible advice.
I’m your host Nicola Cantan. My membership site, Vibrant Music Teaching, helps teachers all over the world to include more games and creativity in their lessons, so that their students giggle their way through music theory and make faster progress. I also run a popular blog, Colourful Keys, where we write about creative ideas and teaching strategies and an interview show, Teaching Studio Stories.

Every Monday I provide bite-sized bursts of inspiration and ideas for instrumental and vocal music teachers. The episodes are usually between 10 and 20 minutes – the perfect length of time to put away some of the music books scattered all over your studio and hide the rest of them in the piano bench.

Listen to a few episodes and hit the subscribe button. When you come across an episode you love, make sure to tell your teacher-friends they can get it for free in any audio app that supports podcasts.

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Latest Episodes:

Everybody sit down on the floor Apr 25, 2022

Show notes

The old model of the teacher dispensing information while students

quietly absorb it is dead. Good ridance, too. Now it's about building

great relationships with mutual respect in our studios.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

iPad apps and YouTube - friend or foe to piano teachers? Apr 18, 2022

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Many teachers feel like iPad apps are coming for their jobs. But are they really? What can we do to make sure we stay relevant?

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

How to find flexibility in your teaching schedule Apr 11, 2022

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Sometimes teachers need some time off. When you want to take a trip, go

on maternity leave or do something else during regular teaching weeks –

these options can save the day.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

iPad Piano Studio Mistakes to Avoid Apr 04, 2022

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Using an iPad in your piano studio might seem like a great idea...until you get one and realise you have no idea what to do with it!

There’s one big mistake that I see teachers make with iPad use all the time. I want to help you to sidestep that mistake and head straight for iPad piano studio success!

So You’ve Got an iPad, Now What?

When you first get an iPad for your studio, it’s super exciting. And then it’s mystifying.

You know you’ve seen all these cool ideas other teachers were doing with the iPad in their lessons. But now that it’s in your hands you have no idea where it’ll fit in.

Is this just one more thing to try to cram into your lesson plans?

It can be.

Or it can be a fantastic tool to help you teach. The choice is yours.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

Preparatory Steps for Piano Sight Reading Mar 28, 2022

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To teach great piano sight-reading skills, you need to make the thought

process into tangible movements and activities. These preparatory steps

are essential for any beginner or intermediate student to do before

sight-reading a new piece of music.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

Hit the Rote Piece Accelerator Mar 21, 2022

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Teaching by rote, when done right, is a great way to teach the piano.

You can bring rote learning into many aspects of teaching piano, and

these days, sight reading is one small part of my teaching the piano

rather than the only thing.

Students develop many important

skills learning through rote such as: recognising patterns, developing

their internal ear, and refining outstanding technique. This translates

well when they go on to sight read a piece.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

Invest in these sight-reading skills in your studio Mar 14, 2022

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Invest in these sight-reading skills in your studio

Imagine cliff

diving blindfolded into unfamiliar waters without knowing what is

below. Are your students feeling cliff diving like fears when asked to

sight read?

Sight reading can feel scary, but adding fun to the

process and equipping students with skills by engaging them in sight

reading games can help tackle their fears of on-the-spot playing.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

The Stubborn Duet Secret to Teaching Sight Reading Skills Mar 07, 2022

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Teaching sight-reading skills to piano students is not always as simple as teaching them great reading skills.

To be a great sight-reader you need more than just note names and intervals. You need to be able to translate those to movements that make sounds...quickly.

The difference between reading and sight-reading is time. Or, rather, the lack thereof.

When we read music that we’ve never seen or heard before, in the moment, we have to move fast. We have to be quick on our fingers and make guesses when our brain doesn’t have time to figure it out.

Solid sight-reading skills are a wonderful asset to have as a collaborative musician or accompanist. They’re also super useful to have in your backpocket for any performance situation to get you out of a jam.

But after we teach our students to read, how do we take them beyond slow deciphering of notes and towards cat-like sight-reading reflexes?

Improvise your way around the world Feb 28, 2022

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Taking apart a specific genre or traditional style of music and putting

it back together is a great way to understand it. In this episode, I'll

give you 2 examples of how to do that and then improvise with the

elements.

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How to Seek Out Different Music Feb 21, 2022

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Most of us teach, perform and listen to Classical music. Many of us also

teach pop songs or jazz. But do you ever break outside of these walls?

And if you want to teach different types of music, how do you find it?

That's the question we'll unpack in today's show.

Find out more about membership at vibrantmusicteaching.com.

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