singing while playing

I was remembering something I used to do with my elem general music students in school. They would sing a song and when I held up my hand, they kept singing it internally. When my hand came down, they would continue singing where the song…

• Last updated 3 years ago
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This past month, I started making a point of assigning students to both LISTEN to the audio tracks and practice playing along with audio tracks HANDS SEPARATELY. Specifically, I’ve started directing students to try playing one hand alone with the audio tracks on a routine…

• Last updated 3 years ago
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I’m about to start Accomp 2 and just wondering how to approach it with a couple private students. Learn the pieces first as a reading (solo) project and then in the accompaniment style with the different rhythm variations? The songs don’t have lyrics and no…

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I seem to be having increasing numbers of students struggling to put Night Storm together in the correct order between the lesson at which it teach it and the next lesson. Have other had this problem, and what’s your strategy to overcome it? I watched…

• Last updated 7 years ago
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It’s good if students sing and play, and it is no issue whatsoever if they don’t. I request it, I encourage it, I never require it. I heard a statistic once (don’t quote me!!), that on people’s list of things they feared most, singing in…

• Last updated 6 years ago
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