The Reason I Am Into Music Teaching
By Earl Marsden
My career as a music teacher is definitely not an accident; it is my choice. Yet, it was my father, who motivated me to have such passion for music. He was not able to finish his Music Major course Read more...
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Learn About Bollywood Karaoke Music
By Krishna Yadav
Be the next Bollywood karaoke music star by learning how to get the best Bollywood karaoke songs. It doesnt matter if youre an amateur singer or a home performer. The important thing is to imbibe Read more...
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Music Teacher Resources At Your Fingertips
By Earl Marsden
Music is not a theoretical subject like Science or Math that is why it is arguably more challenging to teach such. teachers must then tap resources to further augment, enhance and improve their teaching competence. Instructional strategies, methodologies and materials, including various teacher resources have been developed thru the years that most teachers use for their lessons.
One such approach is the Kodály method, which stresses the benefits of physical instruction and response to music. It resides within a fun, educational framework built on a solid grasp of basic theory and notation in various verbal and written forms. Trademark methods include the use of solfege hand signals, musical shorthand notation (stick notation) and rhythm solmization (verbalization).
Another is the Orff Schulwerk, which begins with a student’s innate abilities to engage in music, using basic rhythms and melodies. It encourages improvisation and discourages adult pressures and mechanical drills. To accommodate the requirement of the approach, a special group of instruments was developed from modifications of the glockenspiel xylophone, metallophone, drum, and other percussion instruments.
The Suzuki method, meanwhile, uses education to enrich the lives and moral character of its students by creating the same environment for learning that a person has for learning their native language. Love, high quality examples, praise, and a timetable set by the student’s developmental readiness for learning a particular technique make up this said environment.
Swiss musician and educator Émile Jaques-Dalcroze also worked out a method divided into three fundamental concepts – the use of solfege, improvisation, and eurhythmics. The last, the method’s trademark, teaches concepts of rhythm, structure and musical expression using movement. It allows the student to gain physical awareness and experience of through training utilizing all senses, particularly kinesthetic.
Other notable methods include Gordon Learning Theory, which provides the teacher a comprehensive method and resources for teaching musicianship through audiation, the developer Edwin E. Gordon's term for hearing in the mind with understanding. Another is Conversational Solfege, which views as an aural art with a literature based curriculum. The scheme consists of rhythm and tonal patterns and |
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