Hi!  Anyone out there want to ask me a question about teaching piano?  Anything at all!  Honestly, I want to be as helpful as possible for anyone starting out or wanting to improve their teaching skills.  Leave a comment, email me or send me a tweet.

Don’t be shy!  I’ve drafted about 5 posts in the past month (but haven’t posted a single one). I really just want to know what would be helpful to you.

Does anyone have any students they have a question about?  Maybe you’re having a hard time teaching them notes, or rhythm? Do they need reminding to practice? Hand position? Maybe you need to know how to get more students? How to bill parents? Write a contract? How to correct poor technique? Maybe you’re searching for an answer you can’t find, or need a good recommendation for a book? Maybe you want to record your students but don’t know the best way how?

Here, I’ll ask you by VIDEO

A Quick History on Dan

A little background on me, and this blog. My wife and I married and moved to Holden, MA about 4 years ago. I left behind about 35 students in New Hampshire, as well as most of my performing. We were starting a life together, and because of this location change, I was starting over in terms of teaching and earning a living.

Fast forward a few years… now there’s almost 40 students coming to our (small) house a week. Parallel to this, I’ve spent the last 4 years working for my father (he owns two sculpture businesses) and learning all sorts of things; web-design and programming, search engine optimization, photography, marketing. It’s been quite the journey!

Point is, I want to put together all these skills to create something really helpful for piano teachers, and aspiring piano teachers!

The Future Purpose of this Blog

I started this blog for fun in 2010 as an outlet to share my teaching tips with you.

But in this time, the blog has been a little “fly by the seat of your pants” and haphazard in the 10 months since starting it – but I can sense its higher purpose.  And that is to serve as a documentation of the process by which I develop some really valuable and helpful teaching resources.  You can be a part of it, as in order for me to help teachers, it demands your questions, interaction and feedback.

The Evolving Music Blog will serve as your backstage pass to the inner workings of me putting together these resources. You can participate, and follow me step by step as I create resources to help piano teachers.

You’ll also see an entirely new design soon…

Checklist – Next Steps

1. I’m going to answer your questions.

2. I’m going to finally nail down a template/design I’m happy with for this blog.

3. Together, we’re going to start creating these teaching resources. I can’t be too specific about them now.  But these resources will be in various mediums – video, audio and new websites. Think big and think innovative and think exciting and fun. Your questions will help give me direction.

In most of the past 10 years I have taught on average 30-40 students a week. Every day my students and I are coming up with new note reading games, teaching methods, tricks and tips.

So in the coming months and years, I will be producing some really valuable teaching resources and documenting that process here on this blog. But it has to start with your interaction!!

I know together we can create some useful and valuable teaching information, that brings you great results.

Leave a Question!!

I want to seriously hear from you, and what you would like to know about teaching piano. So leave a comment, email me or send me a tweet. I will answer EVERY SINGLE question in a blog post. I will not mention your name if you would like to be anonymous!

EDIT: I am currently hand-moderating all posts, so there may be a delay in seeing your comment. I hope when I switch templates the spam filters will be better, thanks!!