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Guest post by Jennifer Foxx Professor Jay Rees who teaches at the U of A brought his son, Evan with him to help with this presentation, having Evan be the “student” in his examples. Evan is a professional jazz pianist at the age of 16. Professor Rees starts off by explaining that we must play […]

Guest post by Jennifer Foxx Lori Frazer talked about the teaching opportunities teachers have with technology and enabling those technologies in our lessons. I’ll just share my notes from her presentation. Teaching opportunities with technology: Enhancement in the private studio (software, team lessons, motivation, etc…) Expansion to offer small group lessons and ensembles Teaching RMM […]

Guest post by Jennifer Foxx I enjoyed the Walton’s presentation. Their main objective was learning how to create a sense of ‘flow’ in music, developing a sense of musical time and pulse, and the differences between phrasing rhythm and metronome rhythm. Teaching Musical Time Listening to pulse with eyes open and closed Tapping on the […]

Guest post by Jennifer Foxx Chase started out by asking the following questions: Who are your students? Where do they come from? What are their parent’s expectations? What are their expectations? What are your expectations? Chase had a few teachers, including me, answer some of these questions. For myself, my students are quite the mix. […]

Guest post by Jennifer Foxx I was really excited for this class and its topic because I enjoy learning about new things that I’m not totally familiar with. I’m sure many of you have heard about the Alexander Technique but like me aren’t totally sure what it is. So hopefully my notes from the conference […]

Guest post by Jennifer Foxx I’m excited to be guest blogging on the Music Matters Blog about the Arizona Music Teachers State Conference that was held the first weekend of June. Our morning started out with a presentation that I knew would be a good one, because Dr. Kiriluk presented at our chapter on the […]