Home Practice Dept.

Question|Title Issue Authors
How do you expect an intermediate student to practice a new piece? 1990, 1-1 Elvina Pearce, Frances Clark
How do you expect a beginner to practice at home after the first lesson? 1990, 1-2 Elvina Pearce, John T. O'Brien, Richard Chronister
What are your studio policies on home practice? 1990, 1-3 Ruth Chown, Harriet Green, Gayle Kowalchyk, Robert Vandall
What special practice techniques do your students use for performance preparation? 1990, 1-4 Donald Morelock, Mary Craig Powell
How do your students practice to assure secure memorizing? 1991, 2-1 E. Gregory Nagode, Louise Lepley
What do you like—and what do you not like—about practice? 1991, 2-2 Fifty piano students
How do you get your students off to a good start on a new piece? 1991, 2-3 Bruce Berr, Beth Hildebrand Jones
How do you keep your students interested in practicing scales? 1991, 2-4 Rebecca Johnson, Jean Hull, Joseph Rezits
Describe your own home practice. Why do you do it? 1992, 3-1 Jane Magrath, Mary Ann Lenti, Marvin Blickenstaff
What are your main concerns about your students' home practice? 1992, 3-2 Elvina Pearce, Brenda Dillon, Marvin Blickenstaff, Joyce Cameron, Richard Chronister
What is included in your weekly written assignments? 1992, 3-3 Craig L. Sale, Ted Cooper, Carol Winborne
What are your main concerns about your students' home practice? Part II 1992, 3-4 Elvina Pearce, Brenda Dillon, Marvin Blickenstaff, Joyce Cameron, Richard Chronister
What do national contest winners say about THEIR practice (and other things)? 1993, 4-1 Elvina Pearce with 21 contest winners
How do your students practice a new piece when you DON'T give them any help? 1993, 4-2 Georgann Gasaway, Mary Beth Molenaar, Sam Holland
What have you learned from listening to your own children's practice? 1993, 4-3 Rebecca Johnson, Ingrid Clarfield, James Lyke
As a college teacher, what would you like your incoming freshman students to know about how to practice? 1993, 4-4 Donald Walker, Karin Edwards, William Hughes
What do parents have to say about their children's practice? 1994, 5-1 Twenty-seven parents
What suggestions do you give your students for how to practice ornaments? 1994, 5-2 Willard Palmer, Valery Lloyd-Watts, Carole Bigler, Mary Ann Lenti, Elvina Pearce
What steps would you suggest for practicing the Kabalevsky Etude, Op. 27, #3? 1994, 5-3 Karen Zorn, Sue Steck-Turner, Scott McBride Smith
What suggestions would you give two students to ensure productive ensemble practice? 1994, 5-4 Jean Barr, Christopher Hepp, Gail Berenson
What have you learned from your own practice that has affected what and how you teach your students about practice? 1995, 6-1 Elvina Pearce, Alan Chow, Barbara English Maris
How can we find out more about our student's home practice? Part I 1995, 6-2 Elvina Pearce with teachers of the Preparatory Piano Division of North Central College
How can we find out more about our student's home practice? Part II 1995, 6-3 Jean Stackhouse, Rosalie Gjerde, Richard Chronister
How do you teach your students to vary their practice routines? 1995, 6-4 Carla Dean Day, James Goldsworthy, Bruce Berr
What basic approaches do you want your students to use when working out a new piece? 1996, 7-1 Elvina Pearce, Steve Betts, Kim Nagy, Elaine Smith, Eric Unruh, Stephen Zolper
How do you keep students interested in practicing a piece over an extended period of time? 1996, 7-2 William Phemister, Jeanine Jacobson, Janice Razaq
Practicing technique exercises—Why? When? How? 1996, 7-3 Alys Terrien-Queen, Carmen Shaw, Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield
I played it perfectly at home—why not here? 1996, 7-4 William Westney, Phyllis Lehrer, Gail Berenson
How do your students practice sightplaying? 1997, 8-1 Janet Johnson, Richard Chronister
What do you do in the lesson when the student has not practiced? 1997, 8-2 Craig Sale, Luise May, Nancy Liley
What is musicianship and how do your students practice it? 1997, 8-3 Eleanor Carlson, Kathleen Murray, Janet Mann
How do your students practice memorizing? 1997, 8-4 Elvina Pearce
What practice steps would you assign for the Burgmuller Ballade prior to a recital? 1998, 9-1 Martha K. Smith, Carole Flatau, Steve Betts
What do you include on the student's assignment sheet for home practice? 1998, 9-2 Elvina Pearce, Beverly Lapp, Susan R. Osborne, Marilyn Crosland
What steps would you assign for the first two weeks of practice on Kabalevsky's A Little Joke 1998, 9-3 Joyce Unger, Scott McBride Smith, Elvina Pearce
How would you ask a student to practice CPE Bach's Solfeggietto to achieve the tempo of quarter=88? 1998, 9-4 Kelley Benson, Helen Marlais, Judy Plagge
How do your students practice to prepare for a public performance? 1999, 10-1 Elvina Pearce, Gail Berenson, Martha Baker-Jordan, Burton Kaplan
How should I practice this piece at home? 1999, 10-2 Mary Venard, Joan Reist, Vicki Diefenbacher
How do your students practice contrapuntal music? 1999, 10-3 Louis Nagel, Gloria Febro Grilk, Elizabeth Gutierrez
What do you see when you watch your students practice?  1999, 10-4 Jennifer Merry, Elvina Pearce
What do you do when you watch your students practice? Part 2 2000, 11-1 Beth Jones, Elvina Pearce
How do your students practice to avoid/overcome common technical problems? 2000, 11-2 Sue Haug, Virginia Campbell, Kenneth Williams
What do students have to say about their practice and lessons? 2000, 11-3 Elvina Pearce and Students
What do teachers have to say about their students' lessons and practice? 2001, 12-1 Teachers from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Western Australia
What practice steps would you assign for Kabalevsky's "Toccatina?" 2001, 12-2 Carla Dean Day, Joan Johnson, Stephanie Nakahara Myers
How do your students practice to maintain contest and recital repertoire? 2001, 12-3 Martha Baker-Jordan, Alisa Delliquadri, Anna Harriette Foshee
What steps do you assign for pedal practice? 2001, 12-4 Rick Andrews, Gregory Nagode
How much hands-separate and slow practice do you assign, and when? 2002, 13-1 Linda Barker, Andrew Cooperstock, Margie Nelson
What technique exercises do your students do as warm-ups for practice?  2002, 13-2 Birgit Matzerath, Melanie Foster Taylor, Karen Zorn
Nelita True discusses practice ­ both her own and that of her students 2002, 13-3 Nelita True
Practice puzzlers - "What do you do when . . . ?"  2002, 13-4 Nancy Breth, Ted Cooper, Steven Rosenfeld, Karen Kan-Walsh
Practice puzzlers - "What do you do when . . . ?" Part II  2003, 14-1 Nancy Breth, Ted Cooper, Steven Rosenfeld, Karen Kan-Walsh
What have you learned about how to practice? - an end-of-the-year student survey  2003, 14-2 Emily Morlan and students
What do you tell parents/students in the pre-enrollment interview?  2003, 14-3 Lisa Caramia, Beth Jones, Sue Steck-Turner
What practice steps do you assign for early level repertoire?  2003, 14-4 Ruth Nordine Chown, Heidi Mayer, Craig Sale
What practice steps would you assign for the Burgmüller "Ballade" of Op. 100?  2004, 15-1 Barb Hinnendael, Allison Hudak, Helen Marlais
What practice strategies would you assign for the "Fantasy Dance" from Op. 124 by Schumann?  2004, 15-2 Kelley Benson, Sue Haug, Kenneth Williams
How do you get students to listen to themselves as they practice? 2004, 15-3 Scott Donald, William Hughes, Martha Baker-Jordan
A teachers' roundtable on solutions to common practice problems 2004, 15-4 Alisa Delliquadri, Nancy Liley, Judy Plagge, Karina Sysko, Camille Witos
What tips would you give for practicing trills, accompaniment patterns, and polyrhythms in the music of Bach, Haydn, and Chopin?  2005, 16-1 Rick Andrews, Karin Edwards, Robert Satterlee
What technical warm-ups do your early level students practice? 2005, 16-2 Kathy Christian, Carole Flatau, Carmen Shaw
What are the pros and cons of parents supervising their children's practice? 2005, 16-3 Marilyn C. Andersen, Nancy Breth, Carol Ann Ishman
What do college piano majors have to say about their piano study and practice?  2005, 16-4 Jessica Klett, Jessica Dean-Modaff, Emily Morlan, Tim Smile
What suggestions would you give for maintenance practice of C.P.E. Bach's "Solfeggietto?"  2006, 17-1 Andrew Cooperstock, Janet Palmberg, Rebecca Shockley
The Schumann "Romance in F#, Op. 28, No. 2" - its evolution from workout to artistic performance. 2006, 17-2 Phyllis Lehrer
What are some of your favorite routines for practicing scales? 2006, 17-3 William Phemister
What makes practice perfect?  2006, 17-4 Elvina Pearce

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