TTTV010 – Graham Fitch on Teaching Practising

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Teaching our students how to practice is one of the most important things we can teach them. After all, students only spend 30 - 6o minutes a week with us, that's only about 1% of their week!

So we're really leaving most of our student's progress up to them. But how do we know what's happening in the practice room? How can we stop them from wasting that oh so precious practice time?

I'm so excited to welcome Graham Fitch to the podcast today. Graham writes a fantastic blog and ebooks all about practicing the piano, and has some fantastic, innovative practice methods. Take a listen to today's podcast for a whole host of practice strategies that you can start teaching students tomorrow!

Transcript

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In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to get students to think about their practicing habits
• When and if to use a metronome
• How to use lesson time to teach student's how to fix a problem, not just that there is a problem
• Why you should put sections in "quarantine"
• How to fix lumpy and bumpy fingering passages
• Using the "3 S's" to get back to basics

Items mentioned in this podcast:

• Graham's blog Practising the Piano
• Graham's eBook series (make sure to check out the offer code below for 20% off)
• Blog post What I've learnt from asking more questions in music lessons
• The Pianist magazine YouTube channel

Watch the interview here:

How do you teach practising?

Do you teach your students how to practise? How do you go about it? What one idea from today's podcast are you going to apply in your teaching straight away?

I'd love to hear about it in the comments below!

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