Daniel Light

"I hate that piece!" Patrick responded after hearing Simple Gifts, the next piece in his method book. "It's all sweet and cheerful. Yuck!"  He had just finished learning two pieces from Diane Hidy's set titled Mean Little Monsters, and he loved those. I wasn't...

Are you stressing over setting up your fall teaching schedule? It’s that dreaded time of year, and I've witnessed many teachers expressing frustration with this process lately. We’re grateful for all our students, of course; and having enough of them to...

Teaching piano, I use my smartphone camera in lessons every day. I photograph assignment sheets at the end of each lesson. I photograph any new books or sheet music I’m assigning or loaning. I often take videos of students when they’re playing something...