Thanks for reading TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander from Top Music Co. How will future generations experience and value classical music? In this episode, world-renowned conductor Benjamin Zander of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra joins Tim to discuss the direction of classical music and the influence of the music teaching industry. He shares about speaking at Ted Talks, with anecdotes of Boston Philharmonic Symphony musicians and students of ... TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander The post TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

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TC266: Is classical music dying? A chat with Benjamin Zander

Thanks for reading TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss from Top Music Co. Our good friend Leila Viss, known to many of you as an inspirational piano teacher and speaker, joins us to talk about overcoming grief through music. She shares her personal walk through this topic and how music helped her to process and heal. Leila also presents insights about how the body always keeps the score ... TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss The post TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC265: How Music can Change a Grieving Heart with Leila Viss

Thanks for reading TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened from Top Music Co. As a teacher, it is so inevitable to get that one student who makes you rethink your role as a teacher – students who like teaching themselves on YouTube, doing rote learning, and who are just really out of the box. I’ve had that experience. And I know many teachers see this in their studios ... TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened The post TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC264: When your role as a teacher is threatened

Thanks for reading TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines from Top Music Co. Music brings out our student’s creativity and expressive potential. But when students experience frustration or trauma or stress, we often encounter different responses. What is the role that music teachers play in this situation? And how do we make ourselves aware of our actions? Stress and trauma can affect our students which then affects us ... TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines The post TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC263: Building Trust and Connection with All Our Students with Gloria Tham-Haines

Thanks for reading TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael from Top Music Co. We are so excited to share the latest and biggest update at topmusic.co for 2021 – the launch of TopMusicGuitar. In this episode, Michael Gumley, Head of TopMusicGuitar, and I will be talking about how the membership and program can help teachers of all ages and stages become better at managing their teaching and business. ... TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael The post TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC262: TopMusicGuitar Unearthed with Tim and Michael

Thanks for reading TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes from Top Music Co. In this episode, Nicola Cantan takes over the podcast to introduce us to Melanie Bowes and the wonderful world of group teaching. Melanie has such an interesting perspective on group teaching. If you are absolutely sure that you never want to do group teaching, we encourage you to listen anyway. There’s definitely something here for ... TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes The post TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC261: Managing Individual Learning in Group Lessons with Melanie Bowes

Thanks for reading TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board from Top Music Co. We all know the dread that can come with exams. Today, guests Mark and Nav from Music Teachers Board in the UK explain a potential way to make exams positive and a more pleasant experience for students. Mark and Nav break down the options that come with exams through MTB using technology, examiner training, and ... TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board The post TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC260: How to Make Exams a Positive Experience with the Music Teacher’s Board

Thanks for reading TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak from Top Music Co. In this episode, we are going to talk about one of my favorite online music notation softwares, Noteflight, with John Mylnczak. We’re going to unpack the Noteflight and SoundCheck softwares – its benefits, features, and how it can you can use it in your own studio. If you are looking for a music notation app ... TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak The post TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC259: Developing innovative music teaching with Noteflight & John Mlynczak

Thanks for reading TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson from Top Music Co. We’re joined this week by none other than one of the best-loved jazz educational composers today, Kevin Olson. Kevin brings a fresh perspective about composing the styles and sounds that inspire our students. He draws inspiration from Schumann to Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock in his compositions, which are frequently top choices for students since ... TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson The post TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC258: Composer Spotlight with Kevin Olson

Thanks for reading TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner from Top Music Co. Creating weekly lesson plans can be stressful during lessons, and can eat up your valuable planning time, too. Rosemarie Penner of The Unfinished Lesson shares how you can win back your time with making successful lesson plans for your students. She also shares some of the ways to manage online lesson plans, how to engage ... TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner The post TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner

Thanks for reading TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. Learn about the common guitar teacher mistakes, why most guitar teachers and guitar methods get things wrong, gamification ideas for guitars, important mindset shifts for guitar teachers and music teachers, and so much more. In the final episode of our three-part podcast series with our TopMusicPro Guitar head, Michael Gumley, we talk specifically about guitar ... TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley The post TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC256: Part Three: 7 Key Areas of Geometric Playing with Michael Gumley

Thanks for reading TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. This episode is part two of a three-part podcast series with our TopMusicPro Guitar head, Michael Gumley. Michael has shared tons of wisdom in this episode on teaching students, setting goals, getting engagement, managing money and so much more. In fact, our conversation had so much goodness that I had to listen to it a ... TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley The post TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC255: Part Two: Teaching Guitar with the 80/20 Pareto Principle with Michael Gumley

Thanks for reading TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley from Top Music Co. Unpack a whole lot of tips, bust some myths, and engage and motivate students with Michael Gumley and I in this three part podcast series.  Micael is the owner and head teacher at Melbourne Guitar Academy and head of the soon-to-launch TopMusicPro Guitar Program. Today we’re going to unpack his own story, how he came ... TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley The post TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC254: Part One: Forming an Identity as a Musician with Michael Gumley

Thanks for reading TC253: What it’s like to run an online only studio with Jaime Gibson from Top Music Co. Transitioning to an online-only studio has been a challenge for most teachers but my guest, Jaime Gibson, took this challenge to a whole new level by opening up his online studio to international students. Gibson Online Music School, formed in 2020, currently has students in six countries and across most states of Australia. His teaching ... TC253: What it’s like to run an online only studio with Jaime Gibson The post TC253: What it’s like to run an online only studio with Jaime Gibson appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

TC253: What it’s like to run an online only studio with Jaime Gibson

Thanks for reading TC252: Saving Hours of Your Time Through Newzik with Paul Leverger from Top Music Co. Do you use your computer, laptop, tablet or phone to access your sheet music for practice, performance or teaching? If you do or are considering doing so, this episode is definitely for you.  Paul Leverger of Newzik will give us an in-depth overview of the app they’ve created and how it can help you as ... TC252: Saving Hours of Your Time Through Newzik with Paul Leverger The post TC252: Saving Hours of Your Time Through Newzik with Paul Leverger appeared first on Top Music Co - Supporting Creative Music Teaching.

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