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EPISODE 33: Teaching Duets & Keyboard Ensembles 00:00 Welcome 01:09 An example keyboard ensemble: Royal March of the Lions (see the sheet music) 01:47 Benefits of ensembles 09:25 Dora's has multi-level ensembles see Episode 20  09:40 Beginner ensemble in action 12:12 How to include duets & ensembles in private or 1 on 1 lessons. 13:00 Social bonding 14:00 Grade 4 exam piece as an ensemble 16:20 Costume examples for ensembles 17:10 Creating an ensemble from an existing piece 20:38 Rhythmic stability in collaborative playing 22:05 Making your own duet from any piece 23:10 Harmony is the starting point. Some suggestions on how 24:05 Deciding which parts go where & how to keep rhythmic stability 28:25 The importance of the Circle of 5ths understanding & harmony 31:00 The Challenge is on again in June. 31:30 Creating an interesting and simple duet with Hot Cross Buns 33:00 Hot Cross Buns duet 34:00 Minuet in G ensemble (see the sheet music) 36:17 Power of Why 40:00 In the Hall of the Mountain King Ensemble (see the sheet music) Join the Piano Teaching Success Facebook Group The virtual studio audience is limited to 100 seats but we will be streaming live to Facebook if you don't get a seat. https://www.facebook.com/pianoteachingsuccess Our studio audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and get answers from our panel of experts.   When is PTS Q+A on? The show is on Wednesday in the USA/Canada and Thursdays everywhere else: In the USA & Canada we're live on Wednesdays: Pacific US 7pm • Central US 8pm •  Eastern 9pm In Australia Thursday @ 11am (AEST) - Check out the time in your TIMEZONES NZ 1pm  • Japan 10am • HKG, SIN, Malaysia, 9am • Indonesia 8am • South Africa & Central EU 3am • UK 2am Australian Times: Thursday QLD/NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS 11am •  SA/NT 10:30am • WA 9 am   WHAT TIME is Q+A on where I live? If you can't make the live time, we will send you the show notes and replay.   We are looking forward to seeing you this week. All the best,