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, June 12, 2018

Tools of the trade, trading tools

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Watch this video! Then watch it again! A Man Effortlessly Paints the Symbol of a Person in a Wheelchair on a Handicap Parking Space, video...

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Ear blind

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My husband gave me a gift of expensive perfume for Christmas. I love the scent, and at first even a small dab smelled gloriously strong. ...

Friday, April 20, 2018

View from the pit: Self-care

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One of my former students became a civil engineer. She told me there was one rule of engineering: the bridge may not fail. As musicians, we...

Thursday, April 19, 2018

View from the pit: The Inner Game of Pit Playing

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In place and ready to rehearse. Most of the physical aspects of the preparation are also in place. From here on in, the challenge is going t...

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

View from the pit: Places, everyone!

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Kleenex, water, piano glasses, sharpened pencils with erasers, and the musical score. All of these go to rehearsals with me, and I always ar...

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

View from the pit: Even the changes change

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I expected to be the weak link in the chain. I was a last minute substitute for the keyboard player in the high school musical pit, so natur...

Monday, February 13, 2017

The Five Thought Needs: #3 - Safety

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The relationship between the five thought needs is like the relationship between the senses. It is rather difficult to tease out one co...

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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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