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July 21, 2026

The Oclef 80/20 Method: Turning Practice into Play

Most music teachers try to teach everything at once. The student is asked to read the notes, find the rhythm, coordinate both hands, shape the phrase, use the right dynamics, balance the melody, articulate cleanly, and somehow make the whole thing sound beautiful. That is too much cognitive load, especially for K-12 students. The Oclef 80/20 Method starts with a simpler question: What part of learning a composition must be taught first, and what part should be discovered later?

November 04, 2018

Food is important.

Food is important.
My job is to ensure that the environment and conditions that they are developing in is consistent and ideal. But the reality is for all piano teachers, that you only get to water your crops once a week, maybe twice.

November 02, 2018

Why are there levels for students learning piano?

Why are there levels for students learning piano?
First of all, for those wondering, these levels are all made up. Some group of people decided a while back to start categorizing pieces by difficulty and then organizing them into 10 levels. Level 1 is the easiest and 10 the hardest.