Summer

NEW Summer 2025! Let’s Play Recorder Camp! 8 sessions of fun. Session size 4-8 kiddos ages 6-12.

8 sessions (60 minutes each), July 21-August 1 (excluding July 24 & 25). 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, basement studio. Parent showcase on August 1.

Register on my Let’s Play Music storefront and purchase the materials, approximately $29 (recorder, book, and album on the FREE Let’s Play Music app. Siblings do not need a separate album).

Tuition is $150. Early bird pricing $125, if paid by July 5. Pay via Venmo @GillPianoStudio or invoice.

Student Materials Set – $29

• Student Songbook with 20 pages of full color repertoire, worksheets and instruction pages.
• Digital Album – 15 engaging and educational tracks including curriculum songs and accompaniment tracks.
• High Quality German Recorder

• Some students will learn to play recorder – those who love it and practice at home. If your child does not, s/he will enjoy a rich musical experience with classical music, composition, improvisation, ensemble playing, rhythm reading, harmony, note reading, ear training, and music making.
• Contains LPM/Presto content. Those that have had LPM or Presto will know some songs already. Those that haven’t will learn them.
• There is note reading, rhythm reading, chord & harmony review for some, and will function as an introduction to others.

Curriculum Highlights

• “The Squeaky Symphony” is a silly song whose lyrics teach proper recorder technique and include a section where students are free to play all the horrible sounds that happen when playing incorrectly, all in the spirit of playfulness. (See below for a ‘squeak peek’)
• “Banuwa” is a Liberian folk song chanted, sung, and played on percussion and 3-part recorder. A full accompaniment track makes this a robust, immersive, rousing musical experience.
• “How the Stars Fell into the Sky” is a Navajo Nations story telling of children losing their way and using the stars and their ancestors to come back home.
• “Cherokee Morning Song” is our puppet show and is a lovely wood flute, guitar, and drum song perfect for engaging the imagination!
• Typical tonguing and fingering exercises that are usually boring are fun, easy, and musically rewarding using fantastic accompaniment tracks. You won’t believe how fun it is to play an A over and over again!
• Absolutely no Hot Cross Buns!

Let’s Play it Again! Digital download.

Bridge Supplies Sale! May pricing is the best!

Summer Piano Incentive

Each summer I do an incentive to review skills and teach others that I haven’t had a chance to do during the year. Here are some samples of my incentives. Below are my Musical Road Trip & Activities for Ice Cream.