Following the success of last summer's program, Bradley Sowash is offering another round of online interactive teacher training with new topics tailored to enhancing off-page skills specifically for pianists. Whether you're new to his trainings or a returning participant, all are welcome to join this enriching experience. Space is limited. Register now for this valuable opportunity to explore innovative teaching methods by a respected leader in piano education.

Dates: June 17-21, 2024
Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Eastern U.S. and Canada)

Topics (subject to change)
Creative Teaching Resources
Guidelines to Playing by Ear
How to Play/Teach Pop/Rock Ballads
Improv by Rote
Improve Your Groove
Jamming the Classics
Preparing for Jazz Band
Teaching Group Lessons Online 
Teaching the Blues
Understanding Chord Symbols

Registration options:

• 2024 Creative Keyboard Teacher Training (live) - Sign up to attend in this year’s online teacher training. $180.00

• 2024 live course + 2023 replays/resources - Attend this year’s training event and access 13 hours of replay videos with associated resources from last year’s introductory teacher training. $270.00 ($180 + $90)

Leveled fake book and ready-made festival all in one!

Students learn and demonstrate practical skills used by professional gigging pianists. Select from two sets of 10 levels of lead sheets (2 per level, so 20 total), each with sample stock accompaniment styles, improvisation tips, and fully-notated teacher realizations. Then, test their skills by playing both Learned and On-the-spot lead sheets in a friendly competition using the provided evaluation rubric and judging forms.

Teach chords and scales better!

The ability to recognize and play chords without hesitation benefits all musicians.

For improvisers, scale and chord fluency enables such practical skills as learning tunes by ear, transforming lead sheets to arrangements, jamming with others, and creating one’s own part in bands.

For those who prefer to play written music, facility with scales and chords improves learning literature through harmonic analysis, enhances sight-reading by predicting what will come next, and facilitates memorization by internalizing underlying progressions.

Use this manipulative to spell chords and scales during lessons.

Download a free Chord Stacker teacher's guide

Revised and expanded

How does a pianist move from practicing alone to playing in a jazz band? This PDF explains the skills needed to play in the rhythm section of a large jazz ensemble including how to voice chords, what scales to play when improvising, and stock accompaniments and grooves for the main jazz styles.

50 pages
Level: Late intermediate and up

Download includes a studio license authorizing you to print as many copies as required for you and/or your current students’ use.