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TopMusicCo - Tim Topham
Australia
Приєднався 4 чер 2008
Welcome to the Topmusic.co UA-cam channel. We make courses, downloads and videos to help teachers connect with their students, build their businesses and expand the global teaching community.
Check out our free library of tutorials, reviews, and lesson plans and, when you’re ready to level-up, come and join our TopMusicPro community at topmusicpro.com.
Check out our free library of tutorials, reviews, and lesson plans and, when you’re ready to level-up, come and join our TopMusicPro community at topmusicpro.com.
375: Meridee Winters Music Unpacked with Kate Capps
In this episode, we explore the innovative Meridee Winters Music Method through the insights of Kate Capps, a key figure in its development and implementation. Kate shares her journey from discovering music at five years old to studying at Berklee College of Music and eventually joining Meridee Winters' Philadelphia school in 2007. Over the past 17 years, Kate has become Meridee's right-hand person, contributing to the creation and evolution of the method’s groundbreaking books and materials. Kate discusses the method's chord and pattern-based approach, its focus on creativity and playfulness, and how it engages students, especially teenagers. Kate also reveals exciting upcoming projects and supplemental materials designed to further enrich the music learning experience. Join us to explore how Meridee Winters Music is transforming music education by fostering creativity and connection.
• Kate shared a brief overview of her background and her journey working with Meridee Winters.
• She shared how she came about working for Meridee Winters School of Music.
• She shared about Meridee's background as a lifelong musician and elementary classroom teacher disheartened by the lack of creativity in traditional education.
• Meridee's career path, including owning karate schools and working in recording studios before teaching adult musicians to accompany themselves.
• How Meridee developed a method to teach chords and patterns, integrating her education background and creativity.
• The importance of teaching music as a creative art and language art.
• The balance of incorporating reading music into the method while maintaining creativity.
• Kate shared about Meridee's books, Chord Crash Course and Chord Quest.
• Tim highlights the need for beginner methods for teenagers that make music fun and relatable.
• The importance of connecting with teenage students to keep them engaged in music.
• Kate shares about some upcoming projects of Meridee Winters Music.
• The concept of integrated music teaching, which helps students understand and find connections in music.
Links Mentioned
• Meridee Winters Website (www.merideewintersmusicmethod.com/)
• Meridee Winters Instagram Page ( merideemusic)
• Meridee Winters Facebook Page ( MerideeWintersMusic)
• Email Kate at books@merideewinters.com
Today’s Guest
Kate discovered music at five years old, after inheriting a piano from a neighbor's basement. Recognizing her immediate love for the instrument, her parents signed her up for lessons and Kate’s career as a musician was born. Songwriting quickly became a passion, and led Kate to Berklee College of Music, where she studied songwriting, voice and piano, and graduated magna cum laude. In 2007, Kate began working with Meridee Winters in as a teacher for her Philadelphia school, where she taught piano, voice and songwriting and fell in love with Meridee’s creative approach to teaching music. Over the past 17 years working with Meridee, Kate’s role has evolved into Meridee’s “right hand person” and editor for her trailblazing books and materials, while still remaining actively involved with the school’s teachers, curriculum and events.
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Consider implementing the ideas from this podcast by writing several actionable steps for your teaching practice if it’s inspired you.
If you enjoyed today’s show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, which helps other teachers find our show.
Stay updated by subscribing to this show (www.topmusic.co/itunes) , and get automatic delivery to your device every time a new episode goes live! We publish on Mondays weekly.
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If you would like to leave the Podcast Team a voicemail and have your burning questions answered on a future show or UA-cam video, visit this link (topmusic.co/message/) to leave us a voicemail today. Tim also accepts requests for his Pop Song Solutions videos if you have a pop song you’d like help teaching a student.
• Kate shared a brief overview of her background and her journey working with Meridee Winters.
• She shared how she came about working for Meridee Winters School of Music.
• She shared about Meridee's background as a lifelong musician and elementary classroom teacher disheartened by the lack of creativity in traditional education.
• Meridee's career path, including owning karate schools and working in recording studios before teaching adult musicians to accompany themselves.
• How Meridee developed a method to teach chords and patterns, integrating her education background and creativity.
• The importance of teaching music as a creative art and language art.
• The balance of incorporating reading music into the method while maintaining creativity.
• Kate shared about Meridee's books, Chord Crash Course and Chord Quest.
• Tim highlights the need for beginner methods for teenagers that make music fun and relatable.
• The importance of connecting with teenage students to keep them engaged in music.
• Kate shares about some upcoming projects of Meridee Winters Music.
• The concept of integrated music teaching, which helps students understand and find connections in music.
Links Mentioned
• Meridee Winters Website (www.merideewintersmusicmethod.com/)
• Meridee Winters Instagram Page ( merideemusic)
• Meridee Winters Facebook Page ( MerideeWintersMusic)
• Email Kate at books@merideewinters.com
Today’s Guest
Kate discovered music at five years old, after inheriting a piano from a neighbor's basement. Recognizing her immediate love for the instrument, her parents signed her up for lessons and Kate’s career as a musician was born. Songwriting quickly became a passion, and led Kate to Berklee College of Music, where she studied songwriting, voice and piano, and graduated magna cum laude. In 2007, Kate began working with Meridee Winters in as a teacher for her Philadelphia school, where she taught piano, voice and songwriting and fell in love with Meridee’s creative approach to teaching music. Over the past 17 years working with Meridee, Kate’s role has evolved into Meridee’s “right hand person” and editor for her trailblazing books and materials, while still remaining actively involved with the school’s teachers, curriculum and events.
TOPMUSICPRO MEMBERSHIP 14-DAY FREE TRIAL (members.topmusic.co/register/tmp-studio-monthly?coupon=IMTPOD23)
Thank you for tuning in!
Consider implementing the ideas from this podcast by writing several actionable steps for your teaching practice if it’s inspired you.
If you enjoyed today’s show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, which helps other teachers find our show.
Stay updated by subscribing to this show (www.topmusic.co/itunes) , and get automatic delivery to your device every time a new episode goes live! We publish on Mondays weekly.
Leave us a voice message
If you would like to leave the Podcast Team a voicemail and have your burning questions answered on a future show or UA-cam video, visit this link (topmusic.co/message/) to leave us a voicemail today. Tim also accepts requests for his Pop Song Solutions videos if you have a pop song you’d like help teaching a student.
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373: Meet Our TopMusicSheets Composer of the Month: Brock Chart
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Join us in today's episode as we sit down with Brock Chart, our TopMusicSheets composer of the month. Brock is an accomplished composer, studio owner, and the founder of My-Melodies Publishing in Kansas. Renowned for his versatility across genres such as jazz, pop, educational piano literature, and film music, Brock has made significant contributions to the music world. He was named the 2022 Co...
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Thanks for the video! Do you know of a lead sheet book for students who aren't advanced? Or something that covers popular kids songs?
Hey carators- I don’t have a particular book to recommend but you can find quite a bit through google. We do have a comprehensive course inside our TopMusicPro membership all about teaching lead sheets which includes an epic 90+ page download with lots of options and variety and also realizations of how to play them :) TopMusicPro.com
Great topic and explanation!
Can this be used in a studio with the main studio account, and then all of our employed instructors have an account linked to the main?
Yes! You can purchase instructor seats under the main account
Very helpful! I want to start teaching soon so stuff like this is awesome
Glad I could help. If you’re planning to start teaching, come and join us inside TopMusicPro membership where we can support you with heaps more business and teaching resources. This is just the tip of the iceberg 👍 TopMusicPro.com
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Thank you Please can you use Midi(in & out) to Usb cable as alternative to this ?
Hrmm TBH I’m not sure but you can ask the TimeWarp team at their website
Ion want my melodies to sound like a kid going ham on a kazoo no more
Thabks for this
Terrible Review on a Great Keyboard. Read the manual before assuming its capabilities! Can't perform on it... C'mon! ua-cam.com/video/E7wA4cGWB7A/v-deo.html&pp=ygUbamltIGdpbG1vdXIgY21lIHhrZXkgMzcgYWly
Trills are my nemesis. Great tips here.
Love the title of this - "Tim Gets Taught" - amazing!
Thank you so much for this instructional video! I'm a professional pianist, so having this 24/7 page turning service for $9.99 in New York during 2024 is unbeatable. Works amazing on my iPad Pro 12.9 3rd generation 2018. Excellent for practicing so far. Especially when you're in a groove, and now, don't have to stop for stinking page turns. Life is good! Cheers!
Hi! Thanks for your review! Do you know if this keyboard has a transpose function?
Not sure sorry - check the specs online.
I find defined structure shapes my lessons very well. I have fortnightly lessons. Each lesson has progressive scales/arpeggios OR sight reading and a piece. These alternate for each lesson whilst I do at home inbetween. Repetoire pieces are played alternate weeks. The week in between, I do daily sight reading and scales, work on specific parts of the piece learning in the piano. Technique is covered in every lesson. At home I play my repetoire pieces as often as possible during the week as well as recording to hear strengths and struggles!!! The little pieces (quick) I learn weekly. As an adult this is easy to do but I see the vid relates to teaching children so more guidance is neccessary.
This won't work for me. I overcame the metronome struggles and now I enjoy using it. I learned Bach Invention no.1 using the metronome and it was extremely useful.
It works for some - and I’ve certainly got value from it in the past. The video is more about options, particularly for young students more used to drums than clicks!
Can he learn on the real piano??
Maybe 🤔 🤣
Dancing music in church is closer to it
Great little information thanks a million brother 👍🏿
No problem 👍
yep I love Brock Chart music. A winner with my students.
Yep love this music
Brock chart’s music is absolutely amazing! I recommend his music to every teacher I meet. Thank you for this great video!
Man, I would've loved this kind of stuff growing up. Points awarded to Brock.
I know right! Just as well you’re the kind of teacher who shares this stuff now!
That first tune is beautiful :)
Really good video and I laughed during the first sketch. That said, I'd respectfully disagree on your first point (Obviously the sketch is exaggerated, no teacher just puts a book and says "this is C" before he even feels the keys) . I'm not saying your methods or the likes of 'Suzuki' are wrong as every teacher does things differently, but for me teaching a kid how to read music - either through a score or just presenting chords on a paper, simply works better due to the *multimedia effect* - it is empirically proven that people learn better when they see / hear / touch the keys and connect in their brain how the visuals, and sound and the touch align (unlike the antiquated notion that's called 'Learning Styles' which unfortunately I was injected with in Uni ad nauseam). The other purpose of sheet music for a learner is to reduce congnitive overload. I would agree that for the very young, sheet music is tiresome and should not be used for the entire lesson. I like to spice up lessons with fun piano games, percussion instruments and music trivia etc. to "sweeten" it for the kids. As someone who speaks 4 languages (2 fluent, 2 intermediate) I can say - In fact, I started learning a very difficult language less than a year ago and people are amazed at how good I am considering the time I've been practising. This is because the first thing I did when I started was to write down every single letter (and there are 44!) + the equivalent English pronounciation etc. Still I congratulate you on your video and I'd pretty much agree with everything else said... Subbed !
Thanks for sharing your view - love hearing different perspectives 👍👍
you, are a life saver. my new father in law gave his old Tombi Accordian and said, "if you want my daughters hand...you will learn to play. I figured I am doomed. but no! I can do this!
No way!!! I don’t think my videos have ever saved a potential future marriage before 🤣 Good luck 👍
That's some quest 🤣
I just got my S55 but am having trouble finding the Yamaha app you're referencing. Is there somewhere I can DL it?
I think it’s called smart pianist in the App Store?
This video is 4 years old but I am just finding it - good info. However I am still perplexed as to how to get those converted mp3s (from apple music) such that Chord Tracker reads them? Which library do I put them in? Apple music folder, Itunes folder? Any suggestions?
this might just fix a roadblock I'm having with a student, thank you!
Sweet! Let me know how it goes!
@@topmusicco well it could have gone better but at least the idea was there! Not too bad for a first attempt
Hi Tim. Thanksa lot for the excellent intro to iReal Pro. I am definately buying the app. I am a novice alto sax player of about 16 /17 years. I play tunes , but not to backing tracks and proper timing. In the last few years I have been trying to improve with karioke backing and what a drag. Your intro tutorial has gotten me what I am looking for. Thanks again and Im looking to see more from you
You’re welcome - sounds like it would be great for you!
Great tips - thank you! 🔥🙏
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this vid!
Glad it was helpful!
I remember an old stream where here talked about this song, how it was a remix of a remix of a remix of a remix... Now I understand what he meant 😅
That’s it!
HOW DO THEY SOUND WITH THE WHEELS OF A MACK TRUCK PASSING OVER WITH A B- TRAIN TRAILER ??
Best comment so far 🤣
can you do I"d love from Auour that song also have such a butifull key switch
I’ll check it out - thanks for the idea
I literally taught myself how to play piano on this. No teacher. No Book. Just this toy casio.
Not sure how good it would’ve been for your technique or chord playing but - yay! 🤣🤣
Please put the link on the coach's eye app and download it
Do u mean how to download it?
Good lesson😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks
What does Joseph halfman come from? Now talking to His studen😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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What songs are in g minor pentatonic scale?
Sorry but what is the point of this video.
Giving you ideas to explore that make things sound a little like Elton John
I like that idea of ‘creating emotions’ as a kind of glue to cement the other parts of the lessons :)
Effing hot dude
Why how kind of you
LOL yo, I remember that Demo mode tune from way back when I was a child. Maybe 3 or 4 years old when I played that.
Gets stuck in your head alright!
The interview starts at 5:10
Always love the beginning of the month so I can get stuck into fresh repertoire!
Awww thanks Bec!!!
Clear explanation which helps me to teach my pupil to improve on her technics. Thank you for your advice.
Glad it was helpful!
Mine prepay. If I don’t get 24hrs notice, they don’t get a make-up and I keep the money. It’s in my agreement and it works! Not many lessons missed now LOL
What about a normal, proper piano!