playing-based

I have a very talented student who has a keyboard and he learns songs from the tutorials on the keyboard, i.e. Fur Elise. The version he has learned is more difficult than the Fur Elise in Foundation 2. I’m afraid he won’t want to learn…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• cross pollination, Foundation 2 Fur Elise, Fur Elise, learning strategies, playing-based, playing-based tools

I have a student whose mom is a fourth grade teacher, and she made a comment last night that I didn’t quite know how to respond to. In referring to the white board on which I had written the notes, including assignments from Foundation Level…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• breadth vs depth, cross pollination, depth vs. breadth in knowledge, Laurie Richards, multiple streams, playing-based, SM big picture

Do your students who are Level 7 and above use the music books often to help them learn the pieces? They see Neil has the music book open in the videos, and Neil also approves that for rhythm tracking in the teacher training videos. I…

• Last updated 6 years ago
• mapping, playing-based, playing-based while reading, reverse engineering, using music book, using videos

A delightful young adult with autism had his second lesson with me tonight. He loves patterns, numbers, and music, so of course Simply Music i?s a great fit. After playing Night Storm for him once, I told him “This song is all about 2’s. May…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• autism, patterns, playing-based, playing-based strategies, playing-based tools, special needs

I’m curious to know if any other teachers incorporate any ear training into their lessons. I’m thinking about doing some chord quality quizzes as we learn all the different types, or maybe at the end as part of a final review. I remember doing this…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• accompaniment, comp & improv, ear training, intervals, Laurie Richards, natural musicality, playing by ear, playing-based

Any reason why the C section of Fur Elise is learned before the B section? Is the B section really more difficult? The third part (Level 7) is more pattern-based. The fourth (Level 9), which is technically the third, is a little more complicated. The…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• Fur Elise, Fur Elise B section, Fur Elise C section, Fur Elise complexity, Level 7, Level 9, playing-based

I’m teaching Fur Elise to a group of boys in Foundation 1. One came in today talking about his keyboard: “It has all of Fur Elise. It’s a really long song! We’re only learning a little bit of it”. Apparently it has lights or sounds…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• claiming territory, fingering, learning songs from keyboard, playing-based

What would you say to a parent asking “Why aren’t they learning new songs from the music notes now that they’ve learned how to read?” And if they ask “Why do we need to get ‘Time for More Music’ to practice more reading instead of…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• Laurie Richards, playing-based, Time for More Music, using playing-based tools while reading

I have an older middle-aged student who is having memory trouble with the variations. He keeps trying to write clues for himself and I’ve stopped him multiple times and told him to trust the method, and that it’s a memory builder. I’m good at seeing…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• arrangements, Gordon Harvey, Laurie Richards, memory, playing-based, playing-based tools, remembering arrangements, remembering variations, variations

Confessions here…with upper level pieces, I have often just used the music for learning them myself before teaching them, since reading is so easy for me. Thanks to Mark Meritt’s ‘words of wisdom’ this summer, I decided that I would try and learn them the…

• Last updated 7 years ago
• development, Development Levels, playing-based, teaching with integrity, upper level