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Things to include:
Scales and arpeggios - pick a key for a 10-minute warm-up Include double octaves, double 3rds etc.
Quick study, with 5 minutes' preparation time
Work on the chosen Grade 6 piece(s)
Work on other pieces - either on earlier grades for their own teaching or on a post grade 8 piece for themselves.
Discussion of their pupils' progress
Take a technical point, e.g. posture, pedaling, fingering; Demonstrate it all badly and invite the student to correct you. (Great fun, this one!)
Invite your student to sit in on some of your own lessons as an observer.
Submitted by Margaret Huntington BSc FTCL LRAM.
Mrs Huntington is a teacher of Piano , Singing and Music Theory in Newcastle upon Tyne.
She has a large teaching-practice, is an experienced accompanist, and is the author of a highly successful chain of theory books & scale-cards
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