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.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Take the Bait, and Get the Hook

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My fall studio recital will include versions of these pieces: Ode to Joy - Beethoven Für Elise - Beethoven Canon in D - Pachelbel Solfeg...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Gee, thanks!

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I was once quoted in the New York Times, and I am not kidding. The words and the credit for them were mine. The twist is that I would not ha...

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Your face WILL freeze like that!

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There are a lot of sayings that our moms repeated when we were growing up, and some of them were right. With my four siblings, an ...

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Who Says?

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"I remember hearing Yo-Yo Ma play the Bach sonatas for cello and keyboard. It was the first time I’d ever heard him live, and I remembe...

Monday, May 16, 2011

How Hard Can It Be?

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"My dad taught me early in my coaching career that football is an easy game, made complicated by coaches," Rex Ryan told NPR's...

Friday, April 8, 2011

Autism and the Search for the Self

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Two traits of autism that are in the popular vernacular: 1) autism presents across a spectrum and 2) autistic people will not look you in th...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

There are no "undecideds" at Juilliard.

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Or at Curtis. These are the two most competitive schools in the country, and not just among music schools. They are the most competitive sch...

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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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