by Richard Hurley | Feb 22, 2024 | Music Blog
The videos complimenting this blog can be found at www.hurleypiano.com. I recommend you watch Black Key videos 1-20 before you read this article. I will answer any and all questions therapists, parents and teachers have about this method. So get emailing as soon as...
by Richard Hurley | Feb 22, 2024 | Music Blog
By now you are getting the idea that while piano can be taught to special needs kiddos it requires just as much work as any other teaching tool in your clinic or piano studio. So letโs take a look at learning some easy pieces; Twinkle, Twinkle; Brother Jack; Row, Row,...
by Richard Hurley | Feb 22, 2024 | Music Blog
If you use a trailer as a sketch up for a documentary then you can use a blog as a sketch up for your trailer. This blog is my pre trailer sketch, the gathering of ideas and intuitions, the separation of hunches from false starts and good ideas from bad. At a very...
by Richard Hurley | Feb 22, 2024 | Music Blog
Steinway Piano Gallery Austin On June 13 2015 special needs students at Hurley Piano gave a piano recital at Steinway Piano Gallery in Austin Texwas. Students range from speech delay to aspergers, down syndrome, sensory processing disorder, cerebral palsy and...
by Richard Hurley | Feb 22, 2024 | Music Blog
There are many ways in which a piqued interest in music can lead to benefits for a lifetime. On the contrary, if that interest is somehow, suppressed, it could lead to dissatisfaction and annoyance at the subconscious level. And for those without the natural interest,...