How Much Do You Charge? - When your value is bigger than your rate.
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
The question teachers, creatives, aways hear - “How much do you charge?” The immediate inclination is to answer with a number “X per hour” but is it really so simple an answer?Let’s talk about what charging “X per hour” means. It means we’ve determined this rate to be how much we value our time for a service. We’ve looked at the market, how it compares with rates for services, and set a value that ebbs and flows with the market and our journey as a service provider.A few weeks ago when someone asked me “What do you charge?” I reflected on how this number was merely the tip of the iceberg for w ..read more
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The Best Way to Inspire Kids, Is To Be Inspired
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
The best way to inspire kids, I’ve found is to be inspired.When I started teaching, I had a lot of anger. Anger towards not only parents, but also students. I had anger about things like: boundary violations, not practicing, lack of “respect”, apathy, not to mention I struggled running the business end of things and list goes on.In short, I was unhappy.It’s really hard to inspire a child when you’re unhappy. “Fake it till you make it” is great until a child is sitting there in front of you asking you to help them experience joy and you are sitting there not experiencing it yourself.Throughout ..read more
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What Good Practicing Means
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
   One of the first questions I get asked by prospective students is: “How long should I practice?” but my answer often surprises them.When a family joins my studio, I often hear statements like “Should we set a timer for 30 minutes?” or “How much per week should my child practice?”My answer however is not based on how much time we dedicate to practicing, but rather how we dedicate ourselves to practicing in the first place.When it comes to young kids a ..read more
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Piano Safari: Creativity on a Card
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
     When I got my first pack of reading cards from the creators at Piano Safari, the first thought through my head was “How can I create with this.” As my studio grew with these cards and each kid spent more time with them, activities, explorations, and games have arisen which presented the cards in a new light for me. Not only can the cards teach intervallic reading, but they can teach technique, feeling a pulse and rhythmic subdivision, sight singing ..read more
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Teaching Tips: Sometimes we just have to ask.
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
   We’ve heard the story over and over again. A Student starts to lose interest in the instrument, stops practicing, starts giving attitude to the teacher, starts fighting back at instruction, and all progress seems to come to a halt.Immediately as teachers it’s easy to enter into problem solving mode. Can I give different pieces, can I structure lessons differently, what can *I* do different.But what if often the answer is sitting in front of us the wh ..read more
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Why Youtube Can Be Perfect For Piano Lessons
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
   I used to REALLY hate youtube tutorials for students.I thought they were not learning music, a waste of time, not learning something correctly. Until I realized I could look at them a different way. Recently, I had a highschooler come to me with Bohemian Rhapsody learned from a youtube tutorial, playing beautifully, and then suddenly it clicked. What if youtube laid the foundation for student and teacher. What if it was simply transcription. Me an ..read more
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The Answer To the Practicing Question
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
“What are we going to do today?” I asked my young 7-year-old student. “Why don’t we make a plan together. Go grab your notebook and let’s brainstorm together.”“What was your favorite piece you played this week?”“Swans on a Lake!” he replied. “Great! Let’s review it. Write that down as an activity.” and we wrote it down in his notebook.“What else should we do?” “Cards!” He replied emphatically. And so we wrote down piano safari reading cards together on the to-do list.One by one we set up a plan for that lesson. Review pieces, cards, recital pieces, improv, games, and learn a new piece. A lot o ..read more
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Changing the Approach: How I changed my life as a teacher
Joey Lieber - Jazz Blog
by Talia Ram
5y ago
   My approach to teaching used to be very different.I used to be very high energy and “on” all the time, constantly in go mode every lesson. Every lesson I plunged myself 100 percent and I drove myself to the max until I had nothing left.At this point (not so long ago) energetically, I was in trouble. My lessons were going smashingly well, but I was hitting a wall physically and mentally. I would get home and would be catatonic after. It was taking eve ..read more
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