Uncommon Sense Pedagogy

Tips and insights from a veteran piano and Alexander Technique Teacher. After suffering from tendinitis for 10 years, Kay started exploring ways to teach for more physical freedom. She now adds sensory training and continues to research how brain studies direct better ways to teach and learn with simple, enjoyable applications.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

This is a test. This is ONLY a test?

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The screech preceding these words vibrates through my bones like a dentist's drill. I can't ignore it. That's the idea. I'm ...

Monday, October 11, 2010

Same old, same old

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Merriweather played beautifully at her first adjudicated master class. I should know - I'm her teacher and one of the two judges. I had ...

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Them Bones, Them Bones

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Hammer, anvil, stirrup. One by one, these are large objects with a common connection to saddle and horseshoe construction. Together, they ar...

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Do I Hear the Walls?

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Ear training and hearing training are not the same thing. Ear training coaches us to listen to the structural elements of music - the chords...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Devil's in the Details

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In a study examining differences between more effective and less effective principals, Doug Fiore determined that one significant variation ...

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Chemistry Problems

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Believe it or not, I was good at high school chemistry. I would go so far as to say that I LIKED high school chemistry. The mathematical and...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Learning from the Piano

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Many of us call ourselves "piano teachers", as though we were teaching the piano something. Recently I have been more interested ...

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Kay S. Hooper: People, music and movement are the three most important elements in my life. I am fortunate to work with all of them at the same time. After suffering from tendinitis due to faulty movement patterns at the piano, I began exploring the many elements that help or hinder musicians in practice and performance. My blog is dedicated to these discoveries, which continue day by day. Susquehanna University, B.M., Illinois State University, M.M, The Alexander Foundation, ATI certificate, Licensed Andover Educator Body Mapping Teacher™.

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