The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers
Hosted by Nicola Cantan · Nicola Cantan
4.9from 82 ratings
- 401
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 82
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast | Proven and practical tips, strategies and ideas for music teachers
Practical and proven tips, ideas and advice for private music teachers. Listen in to improve your instrumental or vocal music studio business and find that oh-so-elusive feeling of balance in your life. Welcome to The Vibrant Music Teaching Podcast! This is the show for you if you’re an instrumental or vocal music teacher that wants friendly, creative and accessible advice. I’m your host Nicola Cantan. My membership site, Vibrant Music Teaching, helps teachers all over the world to include more games and creativity in their lessons, so that their students giggle their way through music theory and make faster progress. I also run a popular blog, Colourful Keys, where we write about creative ideas and teaching strategies and an interview show, Teaching Studio Stories. Every Monday I provide bite-sized bursts of inspiration and ideas for instrumental and vocal music teachers. The episodes are usually between 10 and 20 minutes – the perfect length of time to put away some of the music books scattered all over your studio and hide the rest of them in the piano bench. Listen to a few episodes and hit the subscribe button. When you come across an episode you love, make sure to tell your teacher-friends they can get it for free in any audio app that supports podcasts. https://vibrantmusicteaching.com https://colourfulkeys.ie https://instagram.com/colourfulkeys https://www.facebook.com/groups/vibrantmusicstudioteachers
- Publisher
- Nicola Cantan
- Category
- arts · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Aug 2018
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
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22 of 401 episodes have a transcript.
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Piano Practice Is Broken — Here's What Actually Works
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Piano Practice Is Broken — Here's What Actually Works
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I mean I've had several students who I realized actually they're only playing each thing once that's what they think practice is or maybe they play it a couple of times and they think good enough fine and they walk away and look that's better than nothing but it's not great is it? I think to me it was so apparent that repetition was just like the foundation of practice really that i didn't think to explain this to students until i realized that this was going on so i definitely think we need to address this head-on and talk with students and set up systems that help them to repeat things right from the beginning and understand that that's part of practicing problem number two is that they don't So they might repeat things ten times, but they're not thinking critically about that at all. […]
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