{"podcast":{"title":"Field Notes on Music Teaching & Learning","slug":"field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376","podcast_index_feed_id":265376,"rss_url":"https://www.ashleydanyew.com/episodes?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.ashleydanyew.com/episodes/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/585c710603596e2c47dad93e/1676469296913-E6Y2ESYKXHE6TL3M58LD/Field+Notes+on+Music+Teaching+%26+Learning+Cover+-+Ashley+Danyew.jpg?format=1500w","author":"Ashley Danyew","episode_count":103,"summary":"This podcast is a collection of creative ideas, practical strategies, and thoughtful observations from the field of music teaching and learning. Music educator Ashley Danyew will dive into topics like how we learn, developing musicianship, time management, teaching sequences, planning tools and strategies, the art of teaching, practicing, and the creative process, and share personal stories from her own experiences and observations. You’ll find creative and pedagogically-sound teaching tips; fresh, new approaches you can use in your teaching; and insight into a few tried-and-true systems and creative processes designed to help you do your best work.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T00:18:52.276354+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376"},"episode":{"title":"086 - Teaching Keyboard Skills to Students of All Ages","slug":"086-teaching-keyboard-skills-to-students-of-all-ages","published_at":"2025-08-20T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376/086-teaching-keyboard-skills-to-students-of-all-ages","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376","url":"https://www.ashleydanyew.com/episodes/086","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c710603596e2c47dad93e/t/68a3439a42061e4b25734904/1756912904186/086+-+Teaching+Keyboard+Skills+to+Students+of+All+Ages.mp3","summary":"Learning to play the piano isn’t just about learning repertoire pieces. It’s about developing a set of keyboard skills that lets you make music anywhere, with anyone, in any style. Technique, performance, and sight-reading are part of it, but so are harmonization, transposition, chord knowledge, and voice-leading. It’s more than the ability to perform what’s on the page; it’s understanding how the music is made. In this episode, I’ll share why keyboard skills matter for students of all ages and a few strategies I’m using in my studio to build them into lessons from the very first year of study. For show notes + a full transcript, click here . Resources Mentioned *Disclosure: some of the links in this episode are affiliate links, which means if you decide to purchase through any of them, I will earn a small commission. This helps support the podcast and allows me to continue creating free content. Thank you for your support! RCM Piano Syllabus Piano Safari Repertoire Book 1 Diversions (Juan Cabeza) Piano Safari Friends Piano Safari Sight-Reading Cards Sight-Reading and Rhythm Every Day (Helen Marlais) Rhythm Keeper, Vol. 1 (Samantha Steitz & Steve Aho) Ep. 085 - Everyone Can Improvise Through the Windowpane (Chee-Hwa Tan) A Child’s Garden of Verses (Chee-Hwa Tan) Free download: 12 Variations on Diversion 12 (Juan Cabeza) Create First! Duet (Forrest Kinney) Free download: 27 Easy Chord Progressions (Tim Topham) If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review in Apple Podcasts >> Find me on Instagram: @ashleydanyew Whenever you’re ready, here are three ways we can work together: 1️⃣ Need fresh teaching ideas? Schedule a quick 25-min. call and we’ll brainstorm on a topic of your choice. Build an idea bank that you can pull from in the months to come. 2️⃣…","meta_description":"Learning to play the piano isn’t just about learning repertoire pieces. It’s about developing a set of keyboard skills that lets you make music anywhere,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":947,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376/episodes/086-teaching-keyboard-skills-to-students-of-all-ages/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/field-notes-on-music-teaching-learning-265376/086-teaching-keyboard-skills-to-students-of-all-ages.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}