James has had to work really hard to develop his rhythm skills. He especially loved this piece, so he was motivated to count consistently through the whole thing to make it sound right. Here is a link to the printed music for the Bitterroot Mountains piece that James is playing: Stories in Sound – Book […]
Teaching
Composition Idea
About a month ago, our music teachers association had a workshop on teaching composition to students. Wendy Stevens was our presenter, and gave us lots of practical tips. Plus, as part of the workshop she played portions of her newly published Christmas book, All is Calm! (BTW, if you haven’t seen Wendy’s website, you must […]
This Week in Photos
Okay, I admit this is actually last week in photos, but at this point I’m just proud of myself for actually getting these posted… 🙂 On Monday morning, shortly before my first lesson of the day, I decided to try a new game for the week – Chord Spelling Bee Challenge. I grabbed several plain […]
Test Yourself on These Fun Musical Quizzes!
It took me six minutes and three seconds to do it, but I finally named all the composers of these famous pieces in this fun quiz. I was about four minutes into it before I realized that the countries were listed beside each blank (duh!). And then I had a brain freeze on The William […]
Around the Blogosphere
Here are a few interesting articles and other tidbits I’ve come across this week that I thought I’d share: sfrack reminds music teachers of the importance of Painting Pictures Through Music. I’ve started doing this more with students and it’s such a great teaching technique! Jon Dittert over at Music Teacher’s Helper Blog shares a […]
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
I took off this week of teaching and am looking forward to spending time with my family and enjoying the Thanksgiving season. I am so thankful for the privilege of running an independent studio and for the wonderful families and students that are a part of it. God’s blessings are abundant and it’s always good […]
