"Carrie, you're breaking the phrase right before the last note!" I call into my laptop. Carrie stops playing piano and then turns to squint into her camera with a confused look on her face. "You're breaking the right-hand melody just before the G but the phrase ends just after the G," I explain. "What phrase?" Carrie shrugs her shoulders and ...

I recently assigned a Bossa Nova to my sixteen-year-old intermediate piano student. Even though the style was new to him, he enjoyed the sound of the piece and was excited to learn it. In preparation, we watched performances on YouTube so he could hear a range of tempi and characterizations. We wrote out the beats in the score so he could understan...