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Piano Teaching Skills: A Complete Guide for Piano Teachers gives useful suggestions for how to approach the many facets of piano teaching. Topics range from teaching beginners through preparing an advanced student to present a recital. Major authorities of contemporary piano pedagogy are cited. Good teaching strategies increase the likelihood of teacher satisfaction and lessen the likelihood of pupils discontinuing piano before they attain real skill. Teachers wishing to develop the proper approach to excellence in training will gain strategies and techniques for doing so; teachers interested in adding to their skills will find this book helpful too. Self-motivated students who wish to add to their current knowledge and skills can also benefit. Forward by Dr. Paul Pollei, Professor Emeritus of Piano Studies, Brigham Young University, Founder of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

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Elaine Andrus Watts has a Master s Degree in Music Education and graduated a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She holds professional teaching certificates and has taught band, choral and general music in the public schools. She has maintained a piano studio for forty-five years, teaching hundreds of private piano students, and presenting them in group and solo recitals. Her students have won contests, have been awarded study grants and have played concertos on symphony youth nights. She also taught approximately ten hours per week for six years as a member of the piano staff of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She has served as adjudicator for music festivals, contests and public school solo festivals. She has accompanied soloists, choral groups and professional vocal teachers. She has been a church organist for many years and an occasional vocal soloist. She has composed piano teaching pieces, choral compositions including a cantata, and solos for piano, flute, trumpet and voice. She has taught her own five children to play the piano. Her son says, When we turned seven years of age, we were given piano lessons whether it tickled us pink or not. (They all love music.) She says that music and students have been like beautiful flowers in her life.

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