Interesting Time !

Now my teaching evolves around a piece of music or sometimes music without any paper.

Last Saturday as I was going through a baroque piece with a student, I figured out she need help for the changing of 4 chords. There is a similar note from one chord to the other. I call that the pivot / anchor point. Many times I think student knows since they can read the notes but actually I am wrong. They are not experience or just did not see certain attributes that is obvious to me.

The chords are the primary chords and here I am teaching theory, which is what Paul Harris quotes in his book "Improve Your Teaching" as "simultaneous learning" where connections are made from one to another.

It is really great to hear student say that she had an interesting time during lesson .