Individual Skills
TITLE: This is Me – Greatest Showman Beginner Violin Music
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: ARTICLE VIDEO
DATE: December 13, 2018
Curated from The Violin Blog – Please share this with string teachers or young string players – Complete with printed music and a video! Let me blow the dust off my keyboard and begin by telling you, “Hello!” Yes, I realize it’s been 4 months since I last posted, but I’m a mommy first and foremost and summer break happened. […]
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TITLE: SUPERCHARGE YOUR PRACTICE SESSIONS WITH MODACITY
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: Podcast
DATE: December 12, 2018
Curated from Midnight Music – midnightmusic.com.au – by Katie Wardrobe – Band and orchestra directors, looking for innovative ways to improve student home practice? Our good friend Katie Wardrobe has a great suggestion here! MTT71: Supercharge Your Practice Sessions with Modacity Marc Gelfo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Modacity – an app that aims to help musicians use their […]
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TITLE: Improving Brass Tone Production
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: December 10, 2018
Curated from the Smartmusic Music Educator Blog, by Chip Crotts As the school year is now in full swing, let’s turn our thoughts to brass tone production. No doubt, your students are all playing a lot right now and are probably working the muscles more than ever before. Likewise, we may also be teaching a new crop of young brass […]
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TITLE: Choosing the Right Mouthpiece
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: December 5, 2018
Curated from “The Hub,” a Yamaha Music Education Blog – by Matt Kerns I worked in a music store for many years, and one of the most common requests we’d get from customers was help with picking a new mouthpiece. The conversation would often start something like this: “I need a new mouthpiece” “Ok, do you already have some idea […]
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TITLE: Great Trumpet Teaching Concepts from Al Vizzutti
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: Videos
DATE: November 30, 2018
Curated from posted YouTube videos – Featuring amazing trumpet artist and clinician Al Vizzutti – Can there be any more varied teaching concepts on a subject than how to play the trumpet well? Watch and listen as fantastic trumpet player Al Vizzutti discusses and demonstrates no-nonsense facts about how to successfully teach trumpet to your students. Convenient! You don’t have […]
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TITLE: “Tone-Deaf” is an Excuse….not a Diagnosis
CONTRIBUTOR: Curated
FORMAT: Article
DATE: November 29, 2018
Curated from ChoralClarity.com – by Adam Paltrowitz – “Tone-Deaf” is an Excuse….not a Diagnosis…..and I blame the person who makes the diagnosis. Anyone can learn to sing. If a person can speak, they should be able to learn to sing. All speech is pitched and most people speak using a range of pitches; the concept of varied pitches in speech is […]
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