Questions tagged [teaching]
For questions about the knowledge of music theory and musical practice and the methods by which they are to be taught.
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Is it possible to learn how to sing properly without a teacher?
Can you learn to sing with correct technique only using videos and online courses - without feedback from a teacher that guides you? How much of a difference would it make?
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Should sight-reading be emphasized less for piano instruction with new developments in technology [closed]
I realize this post may be controversial. I've been playing for about eleven years. I'm somewhere at the amateur/intermediate level. When I started sheet music was the only medium available. Since ...
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Expectations from a violin teacher towards an adult learner
I am an adult student learning the violin. I have have been playing for slightly more than a year. I can play most of the pieces in Suzuki book 1 now and have progressed up to book 2. I do not know if ...
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What are the primary historical piano training methods, and what are their defining characteristics?
There are various historically important or well-known piano training methods or schools (“schools of thought” as opposed to institutions, which are not the focus here):
• The Leschetizky method
• The ...
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Are there any MIDI-based drum coaching applications around? [closed]
Being a (hobby) guitarist, I always wanted to learn drums. As I don't have a dedicated rehearsal space, I decided to buy a used V-Drums kit (TD 17) from Roland with meshheads. The module comes with an ...
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Do you need a specific practice schedule to improve? [closed]
I have played music for most of my life and tried to learn everything that I either wanted to learn or felt that I needed to learn to progress. I have also never seen the point of having 30 minutes ...
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Why is Schenker so influential in US academia? Is it the same elsewhere?
Adam Neely's recent video on race and music theory focuses in part on the views of Schenker and the limits and biases of his system of analysis. It seems that Schenker has had a very strong influence ...
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Research on effective frequency and duration of practice for improvement?
I've been playing piano for a long time now, did my undergrad in music and just finished my Teacher's Ed. program.
As someone who's suffered an overuse injury (permanent nerve damage) from practicing ...
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Approach to teaching a conducting class virtually
This question is more vague than I would prefer, but I am really struggling with this issue, so any help would be appreciated.
So, due to COVID, the school where I teach has gone virtual for the first ...
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Can you request songs to learn from piano teacher
My piano teacher mostly teaches me pieces in the genre of classical/children e.g. the last piece she taught me was Entrance of the Gladiators. I'm getting bored of these songs and I want to request ...
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How can one begin their own Youtube channel featuring music videos (song covers, etc.)? [closed]
I want to know how can one begin making their Youtube channel meant for creating song covers, music videos (eg. teaching Music Theory), etc.?
I know the easiest way to do is to upload your own video ...
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What is the best way to teach a friend to sing? (Improving hearing ability)
In the past, I thought that singing (I mean hearing the notes and being able to produce the same note) was given at birth and couldn't be improved. But in a year, a friend of mine improved himself so ...
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For a 10 year old learning piano what does music pedagogy says about using metronome?
I am teaching piano to a 10 year old using the Suzuki 1 book. This child has no problem maintaining tempo when singing. Is it better for the child to use metronome to keep the tempo during ...
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Safety of exercises in Alan Greene: “How to Sing and Speak Properly” book
I have years of experience singing incorrectly on a hobbyist level. My voice has a lot of tension and I have very little concept of what makes up "good technique". I want to improve my singing tone ...
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What's the best solution (audio quality) to giving online classes
Because of COVID-19, I'm giving piano classes via Internet to my students. Problem is:
When my student plays soft passages (in piano or pianissimo), audio either rises in volume or is clipped ...
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MIDI Keyboard Visualizer for Realtime Virtual Teaching [closed]
Like thousands of others, I am migrating my music students to virtual lessons. Some teachers are using overhead camera views of the piano keyboard, but I am considering adding a MIDI piano keyboard ...
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looking for a good platform from which to teach one-on-one music lessons, with no latency or signal cancellation
Just for 2 people, with an occasional "let's play this together 1,2,3,4...", and to be able to play in real time, with reasonable (not great) fidelity
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How can I get back into piano after a 5 year break? (Story)
I hope you don't mind a story. If you just want to answer the question, by all means.
The Story
9th Grade was probably the most interesting time of my life. Prior to that, like most Asian kids, I ...
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Can animated visualizations help to understand music better? [closed]
There are lots of animated visualizations (of a specific kind) of performed music around that I would like to understand better:
How accurate are they?
Do they help to understand music better? If so:...
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What is the practical importance of grasping the concept of tonality? More specially for piano players?
Let me explain the context of this question: my 12 year old niece is learning to play the piano and has to study musical theory; she recently encountered the notion of tonality and can't manage to ...
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why would a singing teacher never ask a person to do this? [closed]
The teacher I went to last spring was a good teacher in many ways but I am actually not that happy with certain things she did or did not do.
In a previous thread I asked about singing without ...
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How to practice simple syncopation?
I am playing a violin duet with a friend, and he has a really hard time playing syncopated notes correctly.
E.g. here in the first part (top staff) he is playing the syncopated A, G, F as 16-th ...
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Songs banned from music stores [closed]
We all (should!) know that if you play "Smoke on the Water" or "Stairway to Heaven" in a guitar store, you run the risk of getting briskly tossed out on your keester. The question a friend asked, are ...
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What do we know about G.F. Handel as pedagogue?
From Bach we know that he was a wanted teacher and his keyboard work is a great deal of teaching composition and counterpoint.
So I ask myself is there something similar know about G.F. Händel - as I ...
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When working on a excerpt that is difficult for one section, what should the director do to not waste practice time with the rest of the sections
When MDing, if a section has an excerpt of the music that is quite difficult and may require 10-15 minutes of work in order to build understanding of that section, what should the Music Director do so ...
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How can I improve my technique on acoustic guitar while teaching the basics everyday?
I'm a guitar teacher that teaches beginners and intermediates almost 5 times a week. I've been teaching for 2 years now, mostly using a nylon strings guitar (I'm Brazilian, it's used in popular music ...
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Is there another name for involature?
This answer...
https://music.stackexchange.com/a/45206/23919
...caught my attention, because while I know about partimenti and solfeggi, I hadn't heard of involature.
I looked for some at IMSLP, ...
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How did students remember what to practise between lessons without any sheet music?
Before the time when sheet music was popular people were good at playing keyboard instruments. I am referring to the time when printing books was expensive.
How did the students remember what to ...
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What are the problems in teaching guitar via Skype?
I have taught guitar one-to-one for several years and would now like to start offering lessons via Skype.
What are the major problems in teaching guitar by Skype and can they be overcome? Are there ...
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What is a good app, software or other efficient method to type out staff notations? [closed]
I’m asking for suggestions and recommendations from music theory educators who often need to prepare music lesson notes and set tests that will require a lot of staff notation images, for e.g. an ...
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Didactic impediments of using simplified versions
I have been discouraged (read: told "don't do that!") from using a "simplified versions" book of famous pieces, and I've read also here many questions (for example this one, or this one). They ask, ...
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Why don't key signatures indicate the tonic?
It's always seemed strange to me that key signatures don't indicate the tonic. I feel this has two main drawbacks:
Beginners (and more advanced students, it has to be said!) often find it difficult ...
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How can I help a piano student who doesn't slow down to read the notes
I have a student who, when he tries, can figure out what notes he's looking at on the score at a decent pace. He couldn't sit down and sight-read something fluidly, but the foundation is there.
The ...
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Music Education in the UK: skipping all grades?
I live and work in the UK as an engineer. In the past, aroudn 10 years ago, I got a diploma in piano with 10/10 cum laude in an Italian Conservatory. After a hiatus of several years, I started playing ...
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Piano Learning book with fingering details
I wish to learn piano by myself. So I am looking for a comprehensive teaching book with lots of shertmusic with fingering details available. Book should cover
big collection of music sheets with ...
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Piano scales: Why bother with hands together?
During my first ten years studying classical piano, the scales that I played were hands together, parallel. But the only literature that actually has scales in both hands, for more than one bar per ...
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How does one teach a subjective art form like music composition in an objective manner?
As someone who has never taken composition lessons, I've always wondered how one teaches composition without straying into the purely subjective. In other words, how does one teach composition in a ...
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How can I find a decent synth teacher in London
I've been searching online and most of the sites I've found only seem to have piano teachers but I want someone who can also help with the sound editing / technical aspects of my new synth. Have ...
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Beautiful quote about “B durum”
This one goes out to all the scholars and historians.
I'm trying to put together a little booklet, for my students, to explain the accidental markings (sharp, flat etc) and where they come from. My ...
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Musical Training to help with taking up Cello in the fall
My daughter is 8 and has been taking private piano lessons for around 3 months now but will take a break from lessons over the summer. In the fall (when school starts back up) she will be taking cello ...
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What are some of the tips for musicians starting out as teachers?
What are some of the pitfalls and tips for starting out as a teacher? What do you need to start your own successful music teaching business and what are some of the things you should avoid?
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Scales and order of presentation
Why do some violin scale books, after starting with C Major and A minor, then work through key signatures up to six flats and then work down from six sharps?
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Books on composition as insightful as Goeschius [closed]
I've been a magpie for books on composition/orchestration, and it seems to me that the books written by Percy Goeschius are the best, most insightful and well-written that I've come across. Hia ...
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Any books similar to Mikrokosmos written by a famous composer?
I just discovered this gold nugget in piano teaching called Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok.
Are there any other books that have progressively difficult sight-reading exercises written by a famous ...
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Piano vs singer notes
What pitch does the pianist play for male voice when the score is written in the bass clef.is it that pitch or an octave lower.
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Standard Jazz teaching repertoire
I am a classically trained pianist with many years of teaching experience in the classical repertoire. I would like to expand my horizons and become more knowledgeable about jazz and pop piano music ...
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What can a musician determine from the below examinations about the student, and how?
In my university's musics and fine arts department, all the instrument courses have some sort of interview for the students from the other departments.For example, for violin courses, they played 4 ...
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Teaching a lefty to play drums
I've been asked to teach someone to play drums. I noticed that he's predominantly left-handed. I play right-handed, and feel that for his future, he'll be better off learning with the kit set up ...
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Teaching proper piano posture
I'm teaching a nine-year-old how to play piano. He's very quick at learning, but he can't seem to pick up how to sit at the piano properly. No matter how much I prod him, he keeps slouching and ...
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Stretches for inflexible adult beginner violin players
I would like to know about stretches or exercises adult beginners can use to inmprove their flexibility for string playing.
I have a violin student who hand and arm can only rotate about two thirds ...
