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Tag Archives: learning skills
Issue 14: Being a Beginner
For reasons which are too long to explain, I have started to learn the trumpet. It must be very like being a child on a Wider Opportunities Programme. I need to learn, not because I want to, but because I … Continue reading
Issue 12: A Useful Link; The Musician’s Way
Since joining twitter, I have found some terrific sites to follow and it is quite hard to fit in all the browsing as well as the admin and even the teaching that I am supposed to be doing – as … Continue reading
Posted in The organised teacher, Uncategorized
Tagged learning skills, links, practising, teaching
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Issue 12: Sight Reading is Fun!
“Has she taken leave of her senses?” “Sightreading? Fun?” “Never!”. I hated and dreaded sightreading, and so do many of my pupils. It is the time of maximum exposure to failure and dismay, and modern teaching methods are all about … Continue reading
Posted in Listening Music, The organised teacher, Uncategorized
Tagged learning skills, sightreading, teaching
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Issue 12: The “galloping djembe rhythm”, and learning skills
I taught the galloping djembe rhythm, set out in the last issue, to a year 5 and 6 group who were already familiar with the straight 4/4 version. It was a great success; and I think that it will work … Continue reading
Posted in Djembe, The organised teacher
Tagged compound time, djembe, learning skills, wider opportunities
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