composition

I just finished a lesson. It was traumatic! While it’s soooo fresh in my mind: I have a mum and her 2 daughters – 14 and 10.They all started as a group of 3 a year ago – the 14 year was leaving the others…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• behavior, claiming territory, composition, homeschool, improvisation, private lessons, requirements, shared lessons, teenagers

I recently reviewed the Composition & Improvisation training materials for a second time now. I’m very clear that the point here is not to be very formal and structured about giving assignments in the same way as with the other tracks of the program. However,…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• composition, Dreams Come True, Honey Dew, improvisation ideas, Night Storm

I have a student who has just started F2, had done 4 arrangements. She is learning a few other instruments as well. She is a fast learner, able to play the new songs hands together immediately after I show her. She has asked me to…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• Accompaniment‏, arrangements, composition, foundation duets, Gordon Harvey, improvisation, learning a new way of learning, other songs, playlist management, songs outside the repertoire, variations

Just thought I’d share an idea I got from a workshop I attended on composing. It relates to setting poems to music. The teacher was actually talking about using words that are not yet in poetic form where you have to start by creating the…

• Last updated 10 years ago
• composition, improvisation, poems