u/karin1876

I teach various genres of music to my piano students. Most of my students are beginners or early intermediate, so in some ways "which genres to teach" is a moot point because I'm primarily teaching music basics. I personally feel that pop music is as valid a pedagogical choice as classical, jazz, world, rock, or whatever. There's so much to learn, regardless of which direction you focus towards.

I have this idea that there are many teachers out there who do not like to teach pop music because they consider it too easy. But maybe that's not true, so I thought I'd ask.... How do you feel about teaching pop music? I'm curious about all aspects of how you feel about it, including whether or not you feel comfortable teaching it, whether or not you enjoy teaching it, and how you feel about its pedagogical and/or practical value. So, what do you each think?

I was a Finale user for many years. I've been learning to use Dorico for the past few weeks. I'm starting to run into trouble with all the fancy little edge-case formatting I used to do in Finale. One of those is to present a few measures of in the middle of an educational piece that shows only notes in a rhythmic pattern but not staff lines (rhythm without pitch). The purpose of these sections is to get my students to improvise pitches while retaining a specific rhythm.

So... How do I make staff lines disappear for specific measures and still keep the notes visible?