Free Acrylic & Watercolor Painting Ebooks

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Here's a great addition to your homeschool art curriclum. Artist Bob Davies is an excellent teacher, and his ebooks provide a wealth of information on painting. He offers step-by-step instructions with corresponding photos for each concept, so even young beginners can benefit greatly from reading through these. The free Acrylic Painting Secrets ebook includes the [...]

Should Parents Force Their Children to Take Piano Lessons?

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Over the 15 years I was a piano teacher, I heard this question from parents on a regular basis. Unfortunately there's not a one-size-fits-all answer. What's right for one family may not be for another. But let me share my thoughts on the issue. "How would you feel if someone forced you to do something you [...]

How to Raise Musical Children

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I'm a piano teacher and my husband is a music minister, so people tell us all the time that our children have no hope — they are going to turn out to be musical kids. And it's turned out to be true. All three of our kids seem to have developed an ability for music; [...]

Recorder Fingering Chart

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My six-year-old daughter has been asking to learn to play the recorder this week, so we pulled out my husband's old recorder, dusted it off, and let her practice on it. But when I checked online to find a good fingering chart to print off for her, I only found ones that were either interactive [...]

Basic Music Theory Study Guide

I posted last weekend about the book Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music, by Jonathan Harnum, which is available for download in its entirety here. (UPDATE: The author has recently changed the download from FREE to PAID. You can still download the 1st edition of Basic Music Theory here, although [...]

Interactive Music Theory Drills

I'm so excited about creating a full-blown music theory curriculum for my kids using the free Basic Music Theory book I posted about earlier. One of the things I'm going to be doing when I set up my lesson plans is to utilize online theory drills to reinforce the concepts that are taught, so I [...]

Basic Music Theory Curriculum

UPDATE: The author has changed the download from FREE to PAID. However, it is still reasonably priced so it might still be worth considering. I've been looking for an easy way to formally teach my kids music theory. So I did a little online research tonight, and I found what looks to be the perfect [...]

Drawing of a Self Portrait: A Before and After

I wrote a couple months ago about the new drawing curriculum, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, that my son has been using this year and how much we have both been enjoying it. Before he actually delved into the curriculum, he had to draw a few pre-instruction drawings, one of which was [...]

Drawing Lessons in our Homeschool

My kids love to draw, so I've scheduled into our homeschooling day some time for drawing instruction. Jaden is working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (the workbook), and he and I have been extremely pleased with it so far. After only a week, I think his drawing has already improved. The [...]

Piano Practicing Techniques (with Larry, Moe, and Curly)

As a piano teacher, one of my main jobs is to teach my students how to practice and learn pieces of music at home. Many students tend to practice in a very ineffective way. Here's what many students think constitutes "practicing." They start playing at the beginning of the piece. They play until they make [...]

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